8/1/2016: Blackfoot R. MT, Russell Gates to Ninemile Prairie

	With: Sheila Chapelle, Evan Hopley, Lee Belknap
	We drove back to Russell Gates to put on the Blackfoot River, and before we put on we grabbed a riverside campsite being vacated by four guys in a raft. We set shuttle to the Roundup access point, where the river crosses MT-200 about ten miles downstream. We had a lovely float, passing that four-bro raft trip several times but seeing no-one else on the river all day; perhaps because the river was so low that the whitewater was very tame. Lee and Sheila, out front, saw four bald eagles; Evan and I saw three. At the takeout, Even used my van mirror to inspect his loosened tooth and detected a crack in one of his front incisors, so he called and made an appointment with a dentist in Missoula for the next morning. Since that put the kibosh on boating for the next day, Lee beat it back to the Gallatin to meet up with Bob and the gang. Sheila, Evan, and I camped at Russell Gates.

	1. Evan and Lee on the Blackfoot River, Montana.

	2. Three of my favorite people: Sheila, Lee, and Evan on the Blackfoot River, Montana.

	3. Sheila on the Blackfoot River, Montana.

	4. Lee on the Blackfoot River, Montana.

	5. Evan and Sheila on the Blackfoot River, Montana.

	6. Wood ducks on the Blackfoot River, Montana.

	7. Bald eagle on the Blackfoot River, Montana.

	8. Bald eagle on the Blackfoot River, Montana.

	9. Bald eagle on the Blackfoot River, Montana.

	10. Bald eagle on the Blackfoot River, Montana.

	11. Sheila on the Blackfoot River, Montana.

	12. Sheila on the Blackfoot River, Montana.

	13. Lee on the Blackfoot River, Montana.

	14. Lee on the Blackfoot River, Montana.

	15. Evan, Lee, and Sheila on the Blackfoot River, Montana.

	16. Sheila on the Blackfoot River, Montana.

	17. Evan and Sheila on the Blackfoot River, Montana. Lee bringing up the rear, to pick up the pieces if one of us gets into trouble!

	18. Sheila on the Blackfoot River, Montana.

	19. Lee on the Blackfoot River, Montana.

	20. Evan on the Blackfoot River, Montana, with Sheila and Lee in the distance.

	21. Evan on the Blackfoot River, Montana.

	22. Evan on the Blackfoot River, Montana.

	23. Sheila, looking for another cave to enter, on the Blackfoot River, Montana.