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February 12, 2025

Winter in Augusta, Montana: A Peek at Life in Big Sky Country

We often get asked what Montana is like during winter. And we’re here to tell you one thing – it’s never dull. While life slows down this time of year, you can find Tucker out plowing snow and feeding horses, Amy keeping things running at home (including booking guests for summer pack trips and fall […]

April 16, 2024

Your 2024 Summer Adventure is Waiting: Cowboy Up in Montana

Spring has officially arrived in Montana and here in Augusta, which sits along the Rocky Mountain Front, we’re gearing up for all things summer. At Mills Wilderness Adventures of Montana, we offer weeklong pack trips into one of the nation’s most beautiful and epic places – the Bob Marshall Wilderness. Each summer, we load up […]

November 20, 2023

Mills Family: What’s We’re Thankful for in 2023

While we’re close to wrapping up our season, we’re starting to slow down and reflect on another amazing year at Mills Wilderness Adventures of Montana. This time of year always gives us pause as we start to come up for air and count our many blessings in this wild, full and crazy life. While our […]

June 30, 2021

A Peek at a Horse (and Mule) Drive Through Augusta, Montana

In early June, we were busy prepping for our upcoming summer season and one of the tasks on our seemingly endless to-do list was moving our horses and mules from winter pasture to their spring/summer pasture where we keep them when they’re not working away in the Bob Marshall Wilderness of Montana. As you can […]

April 30, 2021

Mills Wilderness Adventures: Behind the Scenes with Smith + Rogue

In the United States, there are a few places that are still wild, free and unapologetically authentic. And our sweet mountain town of Augusta – situated along the Rocky Mountain Front – is one of those places. It leads to the heart of the Bob Marshall Wilderness, where we spend most of our summer and […]

January 29, 2021

Your Bucket List Vacation: A Trip to Montana’s Chinese Wall

When it comes to summer vacation, there are certain places that tend to be on the bucket list for many travelers. A few of note: the Eiffel Tower in Paris, a safari in Africa, New York City and Montana’s Chinese Wall. While travel plans changed for many in 2020, research has shown that 55 percent […]

November 5, 2020

Here’s What We’re Thankful For in 2020

This year has been unlike any other. We’re in the middle of a worldwide pandemic. Our country is divided. Wildfires have ripped through the United States. A beloved and historic hotel in our town of 300 burned to the ground. And while there have been so many hard and contentious things about 2020, at Mills […]

July 2, 2020

Setting up Camp in Montana’s Bob Marshall Wilderness

Tomorrow morning, we set off from our basecamp in Augusta, Montana for our first weeklong trip of 2020 into our White River Camp in the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex. As you can imagine, before we are able to take guests into the backcountry, we have to get the camp ready to welcome them. As we […]

April 5, 2020

In the Midst of a Pandemic, Here’s What We’re Grateful For

For this first time in many of our memories, we’re facing a pandemic unlike any other. But we have to tell you, through it all we are more grateful that ever to live where we do. (In case you’re a new reader, Mills Wilderness Adventures of Montana in headquartered in Augusta, Montana, a small town […]

March 24, 2019

Augusta, Montana: Our Wilderness Gateway

We call Montana’s Rocky Mountain Front home. In case you haven’t heard of it, it’s where the plains meet the expansive Rocky Mountains and we think it’s one of the most beautiful places in the world. It’s also a place that’s near and dear to us; it’s where we (Tucker and Amy) grew up and […]