huckleberries

Apart from tourism, the other major industry in this part of Montana appears to be huckleberries. Everywhere we went there were people selling fresh huckleberries, huckleberry ice cream, huckleberry chocolate, huckleberry yoghurt, huckleberry jam, huckleberry pies... you get the idea.

The owner of one store told us that in summer a lot of the population are employed picking berries. We felt obliged to try a punnet of fresh ones and they are very, very nice. Very hard to describe the taste as they are so different from all the other berries. We also tried the chocolate and a pie. Very nice!