Clark Cunzler of Logan, Utah sits with his daughter Mykell, 13, and son Ethan, 11, at a campsite a mile from Roberts, Idaho on Sunday evening, August 20. Cunzeler clearly remembers being 12 years old and watching the eclipse in 1979 through a welding helmet. He remembers wondering who he would be in 2017, where he would live, what his life would look like. On Sunday morning he and his wife decided to make a last minute trek up to Idaho to see the eclipse with their kids.(Bre…
August 26, 2017
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Total perfection: Chasing solar eclipse totality
For those lucky enough to have clear weather on Monday, Aug. 21, the path of totality for the Great American Eclipse gave sky watchers around two minutes of undiluted perfection. While the direct shadow of the moon did cross a small patch of Montana, those who wanted to see the real power of a total eclipse of the sun had to travel to get to it. And many Montanans chose to do just that.