Montana Testicle Festival will not be revived this year

Walt regrets to advise that plans to restart the annual Testicle Festival, notorious for drinking, nudity, debauchery and tens of thousands of Rocky Mountain oysters, have come a cropper, due in part to concerns over holding a potential kung flu "super-spreader" event.

The festival ran at various locales in Montana for 35 years, ending with the 2017 event at Clinton, after two people were killed and seven injured when a man who had been kicked out of the event and put on a shuttle back to Missoula allegedly grabbed the wheel, causing the Jeep to roll. 

Over the years, the Testicle Festival generated more than its fair share of fights, drunken driving and fatal crashes. Captain Jim Kitchin of the Montana Highway Patrol was one of six troopers who responded to the fatal crash on the night of 5 August 2017. 

He told The Missoulian that from a traffic safety standpoint alone, he was glad when the proprietor of Rock Creek Lodge, where the festival was last held, had decided to pull the plug. "It saves my troopers a lot of heartache, not having to go out there and be pulling dead people off the road," he said. "I will applaud his decision not to do that anymore."