Yellowstone and Glacier

This road has a dozen switchbacks and hairpin turns as it goes down one mountain, across a small canyon, and up two more mountains changing thousands of feet in elevation. Visibility seemed like 100 miles. There was several times the road hairpinned right back onto itself. Can you see the road going forward and back in the middle distance and making an S shape in the far distance?

On the map you see "Dead Indian" in several spots. Strange? In the mid-1800s the US Cavalry was chasing the remnants of a tribe. It was clear it was for extermination. The tribe was exhausted and had sick and wounded from previous battle and wanted to get over the pass here. They had to leave one behind. When the cavalry found him... he became Dead.En savoir plus