Slideshow: We travel with The Charlotte Observer

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These "wild women of the West adventurers" are Karen Bowman (from left), Kristen Lewis, Jill Parker, Kathy Hatt, Jerri Lynn Robinson and Anne Deas. The friends, from the Weddington area, ventured to the mountains of Montana in May for riding, hiking, fly fishing and touring Yellowstone National Park. Parker writes that this photo, in front of Montana's Emigrant Peak, was taken by Kristin Kossak of Mountain Sky Ranch.