Cozy winter weekend in a small mountain town. Philipsburg, Montana

January 17, 2008

Winter isn't high season, but there's plenty to love about Big Sky Country

When our daughter told us she couldn't come home for a visit because of her work schedule, we did what any doting parents of an only child would do: we went to her. No matter that she worked 2,300 miles away on a remote ranch in Western Montana that had just received 10 inches of snow.

No, she's not a cattle wrangler. She was working as an intern for Project Vote Smart http://www.vote-smart.org/, a nonpartisan voter education Web site based on a ranch 25 miles from Philipsburg, Mont. http://www.philipsburgmt.com , an old mining town midway between Missoula and Butte.

By Jane Seagrave Associated Press Writer

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