Jeanette Priest:  

Life My linear journey to Montana: After graduating from NHS I attended nursing college at the U of MD in Baltimore. The highlight of my college years was attending Woodstock in '69 and spending a summer in Haight/Ashbury in '70. After graduating in ’71, I hitched a ride with a classmate who was headed back to SF. While living in the Bay area for 6 years I met and married Brian Priest. He was a pediatric intern at the time. We met at Children’s Hospital in Oakland over starting IV’s on preemies. Both of us loved to backpack in the mountains so decided to move to Montana and work for the Indian Health Service in Browning. Browning is conveniently located 10 miles from Glacier National Park. We spent 6 years hiking one end to the other until I got too spooked about the potential of close encounters with grizzlies. We moved to Livingston (early 1980’s) located in south central MT about 50 miles N of Yellowstone Park. Here I raised horses and one child, Nate, who is now 22 years old (as of '06). I got into competing with horses in jumping, dressage, and horse trials. I eventually switched to showing reining horses when I started considering jumping a too high risk sport (think Christopher Reeves, R.I.P.). Perspective does change with age and accompanying aches and pains. However, very recently, I sold my last competition horse. I am horseless, but now have time to travel and pursue new hobbies. All the wh...Expand for more