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The mission of the Montana Vet Program (MVP) is to provide Veteran Led Therapeutic Adventure Trips (VLTAT) to our country's struggling veterans in order to promote healing through: camaraderie, physical activity, adventure and tough-minded healing.

The last night is always the best night. We got into camp late. Still had two classes left to cover — fitness and nutrit...
06/01/2026

The last night is always the best night.

We got into camp late. Still had two classes left to cover — fitness and nutrition. Nobody complained. That’s what the last night looks like when the trip has done its job.

This year we brought something new to the river. Ten years in, and for the first time we have field manuals. Waterproof. Spiral-bound. Every class we teach, space for notes, quick references for yoga, breathing, meditation, wilderness tips, and more.

Something you can write in out here and bring home. Four days of classes are a lot to carry in your head. Now you don’t have to. The notes you take on this river, in this specific camp, after these specific conversations — those stay with you.

We’re proud of this one and it is thanks to all of you who continue to support us! Thank you!

Day 3. The work day. Morning routine, then tools out. We had two campsites to build brush barriers at — hundreds of feet...
05/31/2026

Day 3. The work day. Morning routine, then tools out.

We had two campsites to build brush barriers at — hundreds of feet of barrier by the time the day was done. The posts get cut in half, sharpened by hand, and driven into the ground. One team runs the line, the other drags brush to fill it. The barriers aren’t decorative. They direct foot traffic to where FWP has determined people should walk and let the bank recover everywhere else. Human erosion is still erosion.

We also stopped at another set of pictographs along the cliff face. Same river, different wall, another set of hands pressed into the rock before anyone alive today was born. You can’t float this river and come away thinking your problems are that big.

Still got some fishing in.
Still saw eagles.

The Smith doesn’t stop being the Smith just because you’re working. The last photo is from the raft. That’s what a hard day looks like when it’s going well. This night gets its own post show check in tomorrow for our final night on the river.

Day 2 on the Smith. First full day on the water. Morning started the same way every day starts on a VLTAT — yoga, breath...
05/28/2026

Day 2 on the Smith.

First full day on the water. Morning started the same way every day starts on a VLTAT — yoga, breathwork, and meditation on the riverbank. A lot of veterans show up skeptical of that part. By day two they’re not. Scrambled egg burritos for breakfast.
Then on the water. Somewhere along that cliff face in slide 4 there are hand prints pressed into the rock over 10,000 years ago. You float past them at water level. Nobody says much. You don’t need to.
We did a little conservation work at one campsite — STIHL in hand, downed timber cleared. Then we let the river do the rest. Camp that night was KFC bowls for the first time on the river. It won’t be the last.
Veterans kicked back around the fire with Athletic Brewing in hand — and for the first time this year, Jocko GO energy in the cooler too. Both donated for our participants. Both earned.
This is what a day looks like when you stop managing your life and start living it.

05/27/2026

VLTAT 26-1

You might need to watch this a couple times to notice everything.

Over $13,000 in conservation work, 14 veterans finding healing and camaraderie through adventure and tough-minded healing.

This is how VLTAT 26-1 started. Conference room at Scheels in Great Falls. Gear bags on the table. 14 veterans who didn’...
05/26/2026

This is how VLTAT 26-1 started. Conference room at Scheels in Great Falls. Gear bags on the table. 14 veterans who didn’t know each other yet, getting briefed on what the next four days would look like.

By 5:30 the next morning we were on the road to Camp Baker. By mid-morning everything was staged on the bank. By afternoon we were on the Smith River — 59.1 miles of public land with no cell service, no noise, and nowhere to be but present.

On the first float we watched a golden eagle drop out of the sky and take a gosling right off the water. If you zoom in on slide 6 you can see it still in the talons.

Nobody said anything for a minute. That’s the first lesson we teach on every trip. Nature doesn’t ease you in. You can’t observe it from a distance and call it healing. If you fall out of a raft you are completely, instantly soaked — there is no halfway. Nature is the same way. You either give yourself to it or you don’t get anything back.

First camp. Two new Montana Canvas wall tents. Fire going. And 14 veterans starting to remember something they hadn’t felt since they left service. That’s what this program is. Not therapy. Not a retreat. Just the right people, the right place, and enough miles of river to figure the rest out.

May 21, 2026. We pushed off the bank and started VLTAT 26-1. We didn’t know it yet, but while we were on the water, this...
05/25/2026

May 21, 2026. We pushed off the bank and started VLTAT 26-1.

We didn’t know it yet, but while we were on the water, this was sitting in our inbox.

Governor Greg Gianforte () proclaimed May 21 Pig Egg Day in Montana. 7,054 dog tags. One for every service member lost in Iraq and Afghanistan. Carried on every trip. Reassembled every night in the field as an act of honor.

Ten years. Over a thousand miles across Montana’s backcountry.

Today we remember why we carry it.

7,054 REASONS WE SHOW UP.

05/21/2026

We will be out of office until Sunday!

VLTAT 26-1 is underway

44 athletes. 22 teams. 5 Hero WODs. 9am to 3pm.Hero WODs aren’t named after fictional characters. They’re named after re...
05/20/2026

44 athletes. 22 teams. 5 Hero WODs. 9am to 3pm.

Hero WODs aren’t named after fictional characters. They’re named after real people who didn’t come home. You feel that by the third one. You feel it more by the fifth.

Over $15,000 raised from sponsors, athletes, silent auctions, raffles, and donations. Every dollar goes toward getting veterans into Montana’s backcountry.

100+ people showed up to Corvallis Athletics and suffered well. That’s exactly what we ask of the veterans we serve.

WE. SUFFER. WELL.

Thank you to everyone who competed, volunteered, donated, and showed up. See you next year.

Montana CorvallisMT WeSufferWell

Three years. Same gym. Same owner. Never asked for anything in return.Trent has donated his time and Corvallis Athletics...
05/18/2026

Three years. Same gym. Same owner. Never asked for anything in return.

Trent has donated his time and Corvallis Athletics every single year for this competition. So we surprised him in front of everyone.

That’s a real sword from Zombie Tools. Handmade in Montana. The crowd made it better.

Thank you, Trent. See you next year.

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Great Falls, MT
59403

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