What's 15 months?

What's 15 months?

It has been 15 months since I wrote my first Blog that no one follows!

For a child an 15 months is an eternity.  From birth to quickly approaching the terrible twos seems like (and is) an amazing process of learning and growing.

For an adult 15 months can fly by in no time.  For many of us it is the last 15 months we might ever spend with friends and family. Make everyday count!

Rewind to January 2011 when I wrote the first entry in this blog. I wrote about an exciting project I was working on. That project was and still is Climb Glacier National Park, a guidebook for climbing in Glacier National Park.

In 15 months we have completed writing Volume One, established a business named Montana Outdoor Guidebooks, managed to scrape up the finances to pay for the printing of Volume One, ordered Volume One, went to pick up Volume One (do you see a theme here?), stacked it in our garage, began to market, established relationships with at least 30 retailers, and somehow managed to become the best selling guidebook in Montana in 2011!  We did all of that in 3 months (except for becoming the best seller). I also started to write Volume Two in February.

In July 2011, we once again started to climb and managed to summit 29 peaks including all of them in the Two Medicine and Firebrand Pass area as the team "researched" another book.  Mount Cleveland was also on the menu for 2011 and we climbed that peak in August.

Fast Forward - 15 months from January 2011.

Today we have 2 Volumes of Climb Glacier National Park for sale.  We have placed books with more vendors and are building a great distribution system one friend at a time.

We are taking orders on the Internet and have more exciting projects planned.  We have partnered with a software design company and are looking at redesigning our web page.

Once again we are feverishly working on Volume Three with may be released next spring even though I wrote in Volume Two that it would be spring 2014.

What's 15 months?

We are also thankful to God and His blessings in our personal lives and business endeavours in the last 15 months.

In the last 15 months my choice for a spouse has been reconfirmed over and over again as she supported me in this project and was my anchor and my sounding board.

In the life of Montana Outdoor Guidebooks the last 15 months has been a lot of work and a lot of fun!

We are still in our infancy as a business.  I am still a beginner when it comes to writing. We are still learning how to do this better and loving every moment of the ride.

In the last 15 months I have climbed 29 more peaks in Glacier and have been healthy and safe. 

That is what has happened in 15 months.