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Julia & Cole

April 7–15, 2023

Julia & Cole

April 7–15, 2023

Our Story

In 2018, a Pennsylvania man named Cole Robert Alexander decided to pack up his life and move out west to Montana to attend guiding and packing school. After he graduated the course, he took a hunting guide job for Rich's Montana Guest Ranch and Outfitters. Coincidentally, a Montana girl named Julia Anna Boland was just starting her seventh season at the Rich Ranch as a backcountry cook. The summer progressed and with every new trip that Cole and Julia took into the Bob Marshall Wilderness, they became better friends and upon the arrival of the fall hunting season, they were in love. Years passed and they went on to live and work in a few different small Montana towns but they were still hunting and fishing together, riding horses and playing cribbage. Four years after first meeting, Cole and Julia moved back to the Missoula area and were once again riding into Leota Park, the Rich Ranch’s hunting camp site in the “Bob”. On September 12, 2022, while in Leota Park, the place that Julia had known and loved since she was a child, the place where Cole successfully guided his first hunt, the place where they fell in love, Cole asked Julia to marry him.

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