This grid offers a virtual environment simulating the charm of the Bitterroot Valley in Montana. The actual Bitterroot Valley extends approximately 95 miles. To the west is the Bitterroot Range and its large Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Area, and to the east is the smaller Sapphire Mountains and their Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness Area. The Bitterroot Range has steep faces, deep canyons, and is heavily forested. The Virtual Harmony grid of Bitterroot Valley offers visitors horseback riding along many trails spanning a ranch located in the simulated valley. The grid is also home for the Blazing Word Hero Adventure, Cattle Round Up, and Growth Quest simulations.

The variety of horse back riding trails offer spectacular views of a virtual Bitterroot Valley.

Visitors to the Bitterroot Valley grid can participate in a cattle round up simulation on the Bitterroot Ranch.

After the cattle round up participants can sit around campfires under a star-filled sky and backdrop of cattle sounds coming from the nearby herd.

Participants can also visit a simulated version of a Salish tribal village in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana and participate in the Growth Quest simulation. The simulation makes use of the ‘Life Worth Living’ model (taught at Yale University) with Montana ‘Bitterroot’ Salish, Hopi, and Navajo concepts, for helping to guide meaningful personal and professional growth.

Visitors to the Bitterroot ranch are also offered the opportunity to participate in an Old West Blazing World Hero Adventure to learn about and reflect upon the Code of the Old West. Participants can participate in simulation gameplay on the ranch and a local old-west town named Sundance. Click on image above to learn more about the adventure.

Experiencing the immersive virtual Bitterroot provides prospects for a transcendental perspective.

Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease and herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence.

~ Morning Dove

Mourning Dove (1994). “Mourning Dove: A Salishan Autobiography”, p.69, U of Nebraska Press