The Whitehall Ledger - Serving Southern Jefferson County in the Great State of Montana

For word history, the Cambridge Dictionary shines as one of the best, and those folks say that Endurance is “The ability to keep doing something difficult, unpleasant, or painful for a long period of time.” I’m betting, immediately, you’re thinking of a time when you worked tirelessly. You felt the urgent motivation to endure. I want you to ponder that thought for a moment.

Several years ago, I was snowmobiling with a friend in the windy mountains

outside Libby, Montana. After a morning of some fun in the snow we made a poor decision to run down the mountainside of a huge clearing...