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Unexpected Experiences Lead to Lifelong Friendships
As a self-proclaimed professional adventurer, I have spent the past five years traveling to many exotic and faraway places. I’ve also spent much time trying to get to know our own spectacularly vast country. For as long as I can remember, I had been intrigued by the idea of Montana—a still wild place, filled with rugged mountains and endless open spaces. I finished a summer of work up in Alaska and decided it was time—I was going to Montana.
Friends who have lived in the area for many years told me that Lone Mountain Ranch was a place I where I would love working- And they were right. Working at the ranch and exploring Big Sky was everything I expected it to be, and more. What I didn't expect was that I would have a bad fall while downhill skiing and break both my tibia and fibula, requiring two surgeries to put it all back together. Close bonds started to form with my co-workers from the very beginning, but the support I received from them after my accident is beyond anything I ever could have imagined.
After my fall, an ambulance took me straight to the hospital, where I went almost immediately into my first surgery. That same night, after getting off work, my co-workers drove through the canyon on icy roads to come see me. These kindhearted and generous people whom I’d known a mere month and a half came to be with me and to tell me they were going to do everything they could to be there for me, to take care of me, and to help me get through what would inevitably be one of the most challenging times of my life. And over the past month they have done all of those things. They have driven me to appointments, tended to my wounds, woken up in the middle of the night to give me my medications, helped me to become confident using my crutches. People have asked why I didn’t return home following my accident, but this is where I wanted to heal—here in this place, and among these people. And to my Lone Mountain Ranch co-workers, and now life-long friends, I will be eternally grateful.
Emily would like to extend a special thank you to Molly, Jennifer, Alison, Maria, Chelsea, Amanda, Carsona and Martha!
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