On Sunday we went to Polson, MT at the southern end of Flathead Lake for the Flathead Cherry Festival. It was a weekend of cherry celebration complete with over 125 vendors and exhibitors, Flathead Cherry jewelry, quilts, aprons, jellies, bbq sauce and anything else you can print a cherry on or mix a cherry into.
Saturday was the cherry pit spitting and cherry stem tying contests. Sunday was the pie eating contest which we went to and next year I will enter, the same as I will enter the snow rodeo at the Izaak Walton Inn in Essex.
As you can see by the pictures, everyone had a blast and there was plenty of cherry pie to go around.
The festival usually happens right after the annual harvest, but our unusually long winter and short spring has lead to a late harvest. They should start picking sometime this week.
The festival usually happens right after the annual harvest, but our unusually long winter and short spring has lead to a late harvest. They should start picking sometime this week.
If you make it out to the valley, be sure and head down the East side of Flathead Lake and stop into any number of cherry stands on the side of the road, or if you like to really get em fresh, you can pick your own at select orchards.As always, be sure and visit Glacier Adventure for anything and everything Glacier National Park and surrounding area!
Pie time! (Cherry that is)
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