Beartooth Pass, MT. Just below the snow fields of Beartooth Pass the traveler will see scampering Marmots practically every turn of the road. This poor fella, left ingured and dead on the road, saddened my heart. After I drove up to the next switch-back, I decided to climb down the mountain to participate fully in this reality. I experienced his dead weight and rough paws as I laid him on the ice away from additional insult / destruction on the black pavement. (Photo = 106-0633_IMG.JPG)

Views in the ZMM Narrator's High Country! (Continued) On a High Level Crest Looking Southwest to Wyoming, Where the High Mountains Go On and On.

Overlook Upper Rock Creek Canyon, Beartooth Pass, MT.
************************************
(Photo = Summer2006 0097 ...... ZMM Page = 110 ...... WayPt =~145k 10947ft)

Views in the ZMM Narrator's High Country! (Continued) These Are His Lakes and Streams and Valleys of the High Country of the Mind. Black Portion of Photo
Probably Caused By Corrupted Digits In Our Camera's SD memory Chip.
I was able to use photo browser called ACDsee to recover this file that would other wise not open in my computer. But still the photo portion beyond the bad place still was black. I could of course use a photo editor to remove tis, but I thought you could see it and know that bad photos can be sometimes recovered.
Overlook Upper Rock Creek Canyon, Beartooth Pass, MT.
************************************
(Photo = Summer2006 0099 ...... ZMM Page = 110 ...... WayPt =~145k ~10947ft)

Views in the Narrator's High Country! (Continued) After Going Down About Five Switch-backs, We Are Rewarded With This Rocky Scene Looking Over Upper Rock Creek Canyon.
Note the complete absence of soil around the barren rocks and gravel pushed up by the road construction.
Beartooth Pass, MT.
************************************
(Photo = Summer2006 0120 ...... ZMM Page = 111 ...... WayPt =~146m ~10500ft)

Views in the Narrator's High Country! (Continued) After Many, Many Switch-backs We Are Back Down to Trees and Fall Yellow Colored Aspens.

Lakes and valleys lower elevations of, Beartooth Pass, MT.
************************************
(Photo = Summer2006 0152 ...... ZMM Page = 111 ...... WayPt =~148k ~9578ft)

Two "Sno Cat"s at Butler Pass MT. These machines, designed and built I Sweden, are "Workhorse of the High Snow Country". They are used for winter ski trips, search & rescue, and other tasks that can’t wait for spring. While investigating a potential ZMM restaurant, I discovered this high quality Swedish built machine. I spent some time studying how engineers had designed "this very real machine" to deal with the combined challenges of mountain slopes, extreme cold, and VERY DEEP snow. The restaurant and Sno Cat were after Beartooth Pass and located by the highway on the way down to Cook City and the N.E. Gate of Yellowstone N.P.
(Photo = 106-0663_IMG.JPG)

These recruits prepare to head-out for their bivouac, a week of Ranger Horseback Training in YNP Mountains.
The field-seasoned experts tell stories from their own mountain trials for the benefit of the "tender-foot" prior to their own trials. They will have their learning from direct experience; the "be-present-here-and-now" kind extolled by the ZMM narrator!
Buffalo Research Station, Yellowstone National Park WY.
************************************
(Photo = 107-0686c ...... ZMM Page = 126 ...... WayPt = 161w `|w|' ft)

A school for the National Park Mounted Rangers is also housed here.
Instructors give a briefing sessions prior to a week Horseback Field Training on the high mountain trails. The rain has stopped for the duration of all the "horse-sense" advice.
Buffalo Research Station, Yellowstone National Park, WY.
************************************
(Photo = 106-0687c ...... ZMM Page = 126 ...... WayPt = 161w `|w|' ft)

Church Sign and Wedding Party, Fort Yellowstone, Yellowstone National Park, MT. With the Yellowstone N.P. mountains as backdrop, this sign announces a "Sense of Community" as it explains the role of this church. In a Grangerville ID, restaurant scene (ZMM p259), author Pirsig comments: "We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people’s lives." I experienced this I viewed this wedding and repeatedly as I followed the ZMM Route. This church, once served army personal stationed (rough job) at the former Fort Yellowstone. Located just North of the Yellowstone Park Mammoth Hot Springs, this church is now at a hub of tourist traffic!! The adjacent army fort buildings were originally situated here to take advantage of the free the hot water from the hot springs, for heating and bathing. This once-upon-a-time fort, located near the NW Gate of the Yellowstone National Park, now has the service buildings for the park, and looks a bit like a College Campus! (Photo = 107-0702_IMG.JPG)