I just got back from a trip to Montana, looking at the land I'm planning on buying.
From roughly smack-dab in the middle of the 20 acres, here's a shot looking down-hill due west:
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y32/Phssthpok/P1010456.jpg
and one looking up-hill, due east:
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y32/Phssthpok/P1010463.jpg
The SW corner of the property is just to the left (about 50') of the bend in the road that you can just barely make out on the left side of the first photo. Property line runs behind the mound in the middle, and terminates at the NW corner somewhere just out of the frame on the right, again in some timber.
In the second photo the east boundary line falls well into the timber at the top of the hill. Both eastern corners are off the frame here.
It's an old mining claim and it comes with all timber rights, 100' of mineral rights, and 'miners' water rights to surface/spring water (there's a year round spring flowing probbably about 5 GPH). Excellent solar and (I think) wind potential, and only about 2 miles to 'town'.
Google Earth screen-cap of the land before it was logged in 2005:
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y32/Phssthpok/landcorners.jpg
Now all I have to do is figure out a bid I'm comfortable with.
