A glacier
29 août 2017, États Unis ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
Glacier National Park has glaciers. This hike is to the most visited one. Views start out promising.
Views
29 août 2017, États Unis ⋅ ☀️ 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
29 août 2017, États Unis ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
1. What's this?
2. What's this? (Oops, he's facing away.)
Grinnell Glacier
29 août 2017, États Unis ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
The glacier was "discovered" just 120 years ago. 1. is one frame of a panny. 2 is a glacierberg.
WTF
29 août 2017, États Unis ⋅ ☀️ 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 inEn savoir plus
Rocks
29 août 2017, États Unis ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
The huge variety of rocks left behind by the trillion pound bulldozer is amazing. Many were beautiful.
Way out
29 août 2017, États Unis ⋅ ☀️ 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 theEn savoir plus
Cattle Baron Dinner Club
29 août 2017, États Unis ⋅ ☀️ 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-sizedEn savoir plus
Eulogy to Lexie
29 août 2017, États Unis ⋅ 🌙 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 cheeseEn savoir plus
On the way
30 août 2017, États Unis ⋅ ☀️ 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
30 août 2017, États Unis ⋅ ⛅ 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 cityEn savoir plus
Mist
30 août 2017, États Unis ⋅ ☀️ 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 behindEn savoir plus
Little Bighorn
30 août 2017, États Unis ⋅ ☀️ 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
31 août 2017, États Unis ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
This was a little walk i did a couple days ago high up on Going to the Sun.
Another stream video
31 août 2017, États Unis ⋅ ☀️ 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 higherEn savoir plus
Devil's Tower
31 août 2017, États Unis ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
A really wondrous, immense natural formation. You can see why humans of all kinds are attracted to it.
Mt Rushmore
31 août 2017, États Unis ⋅ ⛅ 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 seeEn savoir plus
Campground
31 août 2017, États Unis ⋅ ⛅ 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 hasEn savoir plus
Badlands National Park
1 septembre 2017, États Unis ⋅ ☀️ 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
1 septembre 2017, États Unis ⋅ ☀️ 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
1 septembre 2017, États Unis ⋅ 🌧 20 °C
Closer
1 septembre 2017, États Unis ⋅ 🌙 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
2 septembre 2017, États Unis ⋅ ⛅ 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.
Oasis
2 septembre 2017, États Unis ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
This is a rest stop in Illinois. They call them "Oasis". Its one rest stop on both sides of the highway and all the stores are on a giant bridge. People who stop get a neat view and it must cost theEn savoir plus
Imagine
2 septembre 2017, États Unis ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
Imagine you've just come out of the rest stop bathroom and you're skipping along humming a happy tune and you come around the corner to see this. Holey crap, who would've seen that coming? As i said iEn savoir plus