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All-Out Elers
Reflecting on a Bozeman original.
Perhaps the most prolific local mountaineer of the early s was Bozeman native Elers Koch (pronounced “eelers kotch”).
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Born in , the son of an adventurous Danish immigrant and contributive Montana resident named Peter Gyllembourg Koch, Elers spent his youth exploring many mountain ranges of central and southern Montana. Peter Koch, a devoted amateur botanist, would spend a month each year in the mountains with his two sons.
With his father’s early instruction and encouragement in the outdoors, Elers was destined for a rigorous mountain life.
His most extensive trip was in with his father, brother Stanley, and several of Peter’s associates from Montana State College to “explore some of the little-known country in Montana and Wyoming, and Yellowstone National Park.” Though Elers makes no mention of peak ascents in his account, their route was nonetheless adventurous.
They rode east out of Bozeman with a string of seven packhorses an