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- dinsdag 29 augustus 2017 om 11:37
- ☀️ 20 °C
- Hoogte: 4.931 ft
Verenigde StatenStump Lake48°46’60” N 113°40’0” W
A glacier
29 augustus 2017, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
Glacier National Park has glaciers. This hike is to the most visited one. Views start out promising.
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- dinsdag 29 augustus 2017 om 13:54
- ☀️ 26 °C
- Hoogte: 6.230 ft
- Verenigde StatenGrinnell Falls48°46’12” N 113°43’0” W
Views
29 augustus 2017, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 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.
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- dinsdag 29 augustus 2017 om 14:27
- ☀️ 26 °C
- Hoogte: 6.230 ft
- Verenigde StatenGrinnell Falls48°45’48” N 113°43’30” W
Critters
29 augustus 2017, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
1. What's this?
2. What's this? (Oops, he's facing away.)
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- dinsdag 29 augustus 2017 om 14:50
- ☀️ 27 °C
- Hoogte: 6.463 ft
- Verenigde StatenUpper Grinnell Lake48°45’30” N 113°43’42” W
Grinnell Glacier
29 augustus 2017, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
The glacier was "discovered" just 120 years ago. 1. is one frame of a panny. 2 is a glacierberg.
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- dinsdag 29 augustus 2017 om 15:04
- ☀️ 27 °C
- Hoogte: 6.437 ft
- Verenigde StatenGrinnell Glacier48°45’24” N 113°43’36” W
WTF
29 augustus 2017, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 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.
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- dinsdag 29 augustus 2017 om 15:39
- ☀️ 27 °C
- Hoogte: 6.437 ft
- Verenigde StatenGrinnell Glacier48°45’24” N 113°43’36” W
Rocks
29 augustus 2017, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
The huge variety of rocks left behind by the trillion pound bulldozer is amazing. Many were beautiful.
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- dinsdag 29 augustus 2017 om 16:28
- ☀️ 28 °C
- Hoogte: 5.833 ft
- Verenigde StatenGrinnell Lake48°46’27” N 113°42’36” W
Way out
29 augustus 2017, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 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.
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- dinsdag 29 augustus 2017 om 18:52
- ☀️ 27 °C
- Hoogte: 4.528 ft
- Verenigde StatenBabb Airport48°51’24” N 113°26’12” W
Cattle Baron Dinner Club
29 augustus 2017, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 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-sizedMeer informatie
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- dinsdag 29 augustus 2017 om 22:12
- 🌙 18 °C
- Hoogte: 4.813 ft
- Verenigde StatenBuffalo Lakes48°24’25” N 113°14’31” W
Eulogy to Lexie
29 augustus 2017, Verenigde Staten ⋅ 🌙 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 cheeseMeer informatie
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- woensdag 30 augustus 2017 om 16:09
- ☀️ 32 °C
- Hoogte: 4.203 ft
- Verenigde Staten08N15E23C___01 Well46°26’6” N 109°48’48” W
On the way
30 augustus 2017, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 32 °C
This was a gas stop that reminded me to record how there are "casinos" in practically every gas station and restaurant.
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- woensdag 30 augustus 2017 om 17:37
- ⛅ 32 °C
- Hoogte: 3.514 ft
- Verenigde StatenLogan International Airport45°48’6” N 108°31’48” W
Billings MT
30 augustus 2017, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ⛅ 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 cityMeer informatie
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- woensdag 30 augustus 2017 om 18:42
- ☀️ 33 °C
- Hoogte: 2.963 ft
- Verenigde Staten02S34E11CC__02 Well45°39’54” N 107°29’30” W
Mist
30 augustus 2017, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 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 behindMeer informatie
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- woensdag 30 augustus 2017 om 18:47
- ☀️ 33 °C
- Hoogte: 3.005 ft
- Verenigde Staten03S34E12DBAB01 Well45°35’6” N 107°27’30” W
Little Bighorn
30 augustus 2017, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 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.
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- donderdag 31 augustus 2017 om 13:08
- ☀️ 27 °C
- Hoogte: 3.855 ft
- Verenigde StatenLytle Creek44°35’22” N 104°41’59” W
Little walk
31 augustus 2017, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
This was a little walk i did a couple days ago high up on Going to the Sun.
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- donderdag 31 augustus 2017 om 13:17
- ☀️ 28 °C
- Hoogte: 3.852 ft
- Verenigde StatenLytle Creek44°35’22” N 104°41’60” W
Another stream video
31 augustus 2017, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 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 higherMeer informatie
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- donderdag 31 augustus 2017 om 13:47
- ☀️ 28 °C
- Hoogte: 3.855 ft
- Verenigde StatenLytle Creek44°35’22” N 104°41’59” W
Devil's Tower
31 augustus 2017, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
A really wondrous, immense natural formation. You can see why humans of all kinds are attracted to it.
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- donderdag 31 augustus 2017 om 16:45
- ⛅ 23 °C
- Hoogte: 5.243 ft
- Verenigde StatenDoane Mountain43°52’36” N 103°27’18” W
Mt Rushmore
31 augustus 2017, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ⛅ 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 seeMeer informatie
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- donderdag 31 augustus 2017 om 21:36
- ⛅ 24 °C
- Hoogte: 3.179 ft
- Verenigde StatenHawthorne Ditch44°4’12” N 103°9’60” W
Campground
31 augustus 2017, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ⛅ 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 hasMeer informatie
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- vrijdag 1 september 2017 om 08:37
- ☀️ 20 °C
- Hoogte: 3.176 ft
- Verenigde StatenUnorganized Territory of Badlands (historical)43°52’12” N 102°13’60” W
Badlands National Park
1 september 2017, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 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.
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- vrijdag 1 september 2017 om 09:27
- ☀️ 23 °C
- Hoogte: 2.457 ft
- Verenigde StatenInterior43°45’18” N 101°59’36” W
Badlands
1 september 2017, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 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.
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- vrijdag 1 september 2017 om 14:52
- 🌧 20 °C
- Hoogte: 1.352 ft
- Verenigde StatenKargas Subdivision43°41’38” N 98°0’55” W
Lunch and gas
1 september 2017, Verenigde Staten ⋅ 🌧 20 °C
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- vrijdag 1 september 2017 om 21:30
- 🌙 15 °C
- Hoogte: 640 ft
- Verenigde StatenMorningside Terrace44°2’4” N 91°37’3” W
Closer
1 september 2017, Verenigde Staten ⋅ 🌙 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...?
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- zaterdag 2 september 2017 om 08:29
- ⛅ 14 °C
- Hoogte: 640 ft
- Verenigde StatenMorningside Terrace44°2’4” N 91°37’3” W
Quick patch up
2 september 2017, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ⛅ 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.
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- zaterdag 2 september 2017 om 14:04
- ☀️ 21 °C
- Hoogte: 666 ft
- Verenigde StatenIndian Head Park41°46’59” N 87°54’28” W
Oasis
2 september 2017, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 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 theMeer informatie
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- zaterdag 2 september 2017 om 17:23
- ☀️ 22 °C
- Hoogte: 774 ft
- Verenigde StatenElkhart Municipal Airport41°43’54” N 86°0’12” W
Imagine
2 september 2017, Verenigde Staten ⋅ ☀️ 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 iMeer informatie