A glacier
August 29, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
Glacier National Park has glaciers. This hike is to the most visited one. Views start out promising.
Views
August 29, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
1. Views higher up were hazy. Hard to tell but for a while the drop was a sheer 200 feet down.
2. Do the layers represent an ancient ocean? See later post.
Critters
August 29, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
1. What's this?
2. What's this? (Oops, he's facing away.)
Grinnell Glacier
August 29, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
The glacier was "discovered" just 120 years ago. 1. is one frame of a panny. 2 is a glacierberg.
WTF
August 29, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
What the hell makes rock look like this? By good fortune i found out. They are traces of 1,000,000,000 year old stromatolites*. Current altitude approx 6500 feet.
*Colonies of bacteria that live inRead more
Rocks
August 29, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
The huge variety of rocks left behind by the trillion pound bulldozer is amazing. Many were beautiful.
Way out
August 29, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
On the way out more of the haze had lifted so i got a better picture of the lake. The great color is from rock ground extremely fine by the glacier.
On this trail there is water cascading onto theRead more
Cattle Baron Dinner Club
August 29, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Who suggested going here?! Do you see the menu? Who would have expected 4 star prices here? At the time i went the A/C wasn't working and the all teen wait staff couldn't keep up with the medium-sizedRead more
Eulogy to Lexie
August 29, 2017 in the United States ⋅ 🌙 18 °C
I'm really going to miss that dog. She had so much personality. There was nothing not to like about her. I sure wish i could have brought her to the vet. I would have brought her a huge hunk of cheeseRead more
On the way
August 30, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 32 °C
This was a gas stop that reminded me to record how there are "casinos" in practically every gas station and restaurant.
Billings MT
August 30, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 32 °C
The road into billings is up high and runs for several miles along the edge of a cliff (escarpment?) The airport is on this high part. The people that built houses here have a view of the entire cityRead more
Mist
August 30, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 33 °C
Can you see the mist? It had been 92ish on the highway. In the high plains it seems to me that it doesn't start to cool down until the sun is really low, like 6ish. Around 6 today the sun went behindRead more
Little Bighorn
August 30, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 33 °C
Here's where a small number of soldiers killed many native persons. Or was Little Bighorn where Custer's hubris got his troop wiped out? Anyway, its all cows and trailers now.
Little walk
August 31, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
This was a little walk i did a couple days ago high up on Going to the Sun.
Another stream video
August 31, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
This was from an earlier hike - Ptarmigan, i think - where i stopped to rest on the way down. Hikes outside of Yellowstone are a lot more difficult. I'm guessing because temps are 20 degrees higherRead more
Devil's Tower
August 31, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
A really wondrous, immense natural formation. You can see why humans of all kinds are attracted to it.
Mt Rushmore
August 31, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
One thing I've noticed about travelling is that when you get there you know what you're going to see. Four dudes in rock, check. With the gargantuan revolution that is the Internet you can seeRead more
Campground
August 31, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
I'm not getting soft. Rapid City has an ordinance preventing people from staying overnight in places like Walmart. Boy this KOA is great. Its right on the edge of the city on a main road, it hasRead more
Badlands National Park
September 1, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
What i said yesterday counts today. Pictures can't represent how wild this area is. Driving through these formations and colors was really something.
Badlands
September 1, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
One end of the main road has lots of valleys (the erosion is below you.) The other end you are in the formations (you are at the base of the eroded areas.) Here is the latter. Really awesome area.
Lunch and gas
September 1, 2017 in the United States ⋅ 🌧 20 °C
Closer
September 1, 2017 in the United States ⋅ 🌙 15 °C
Made it another 612 miles with no major catastrophies. I mention this because my mileage is like 9 mpg now. Wasn't it 12 on the way over...?
Quick patch up
September 2, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
The plastic bowed out enough to hit the tire. The hole would let in plenty of water. Hope the screws i put in right behind the tire don't back out.
