![]() ![]() Unfortunately, we’re too civilized to let nature take its course, paving the way for our country’s Rome-like destruction. This letter brilliantly illustrates the metamorphosis of a California Beatnik into a full-blown Montana Pain in the Ass! These ignorant idiots should have been wiped out by the natural selection process two generations ago. The misfortune I am referring to, of course, is the “Up Front” letter published in your spring edition of Upside Down Bozeman. Just as the rash on my weathered ass was beginning to heal, I stumbled onto another of your magazine’s ridiculous outbursts. ![]() It is this, combined with a bad case of irritable bowel syndrome that makes me the grumpy bastard I am. Save the outdoors for the people who really want to be there. I'm sure that in a short amount of time you will realize that the mountains are too steep, the weather too cold, and the trout too smart to waste your valuable money making time in OUR valley. THIS is the scorge that is invading this valley!! Do us all a favor people if your going to do something, do it yourself. This is very similar to the person who is born with money, and consequently never learns the value of the dollar. It fills our mountains, lakes and streams with people who don't know how to appreciate the experience because they bought their way past the first few crucial learning steps of the sport. What is wrong with this picture? It is the invasion of the all mighty dollar that cheapens the experience. And its off to your local outfitter to haul his fat butt all over hell and back until one commits suicide. What will I do? I got it!!! I will buy one. Lets see here., I'm out of shape, I can't shoot, and I don't know the first thing about elk hunting. Then it's the out of state guy who wants his elk. A couple more days like that, and they will be ready for their personalized, and always clever, flyfishing license plates. They then manages to catch a few trout, under the clucking wing of some guide, and WHAMO their "Flyfisherman"! Once this is accomplished, its time to buy one of their ridiculous looking hats. Of course they looked up every river update on the internet, and hounded every fly-shop owner in town to figure out what flies to use. BY EXPERIENCE!! Ohh, I don't know how to fish, so I'm going to buy me a guide for $300 a day. What ever happened to people doing and learning things on their own. The old time outdoors people, like myself, are the one's taking it in the shorts here! The outdoors now has a big price tag hanging on it and people are using it like some cheap prostitute. First of all, this valley HAS gone to hell in the last 20 years, and each year it accelerates at an exponential rate. Upon reading my own letter, I realized a slight tone of negitivity and feel the need to clarify myself. You have heard from me before in a letter I sent, expressing my distaste for your publication. ![]() So get used to the taste 'cause you're gonna get a gut full. I may be the only man left in this valley who gives a shit, but it's a shit worth giving, and it's my shit you're gonna git. This place is going to Hell in a handbasket and it's guys like you getting rich off your fancy "websites" paving the way. They've got more shit hanging off them than Carter's got liver pills. All that has accomplished for me is a 400% increase in property tax and having to follow $40,000 SUVs driven by people who don't know how to drive! My old worm-fishing holes are all overrun by self-righteous, holier-than-thou, flyfishing "purists" trying to tell me how to manage MY WATERS!! By God, they oughta put mirrors at all of the fishing accesses so these primadonnas can enjoy their frivolous garb. Don't any of you bastards work? I've lived in this valley for the last 40 years and seen people like you try to turn this place into some kind of fool's playground. I've about had it up to my gills with all this x-game, extreme sport, generation x bullshit.
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