Watson, Montana

I was going to open this post by writing that Montana is not really all unpopulated, and that in part I am walking through very remote areas only because that's the way Google Maps decided I should walk, but then I looked it up, and in fact not many people live in Montana. The population is a little over one million, which is really small considering Montana is the fourth largest state. It is the third least densely populated state after Alaska and Wyoming, so fewer people per square mile than North Dakota, Nevada, Nebraska, Idaho. Not very many people.

It makes sense then that I keep finding myself in or near really small places, places that would never be bold enough to call themselves towns or to even aspire to township. I am actually 10 miles short of Watson, Montana, which according to Google is not a town or even a census-designated place, as we have encountered previously, but rather a "populated place." By the look of it, even that description may be overstating the case.

I found another picture of Watson, besides the one above, that was a more run-down looking cabin, although it may have just been this one from a bad angle. I like to think that this picture represents one of the nicer local neighborhoods.

Once again, I walked over 10,000 steps every day this week and averaged over 11,000. I feel like walking is getting easier as I do it more, and I am looking forward to the weather getting better. I started this project last October, so the weather was questionable to start and then got worse. From now until November will be a good stretch to get plenty of steps in.