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3:12 pm Sun 5 Aug, Upper Fox Creek Meadow, Gallatin National Forest, South Of Bozeman, MT:
A well-remembered, 2006 Waypoint: A View Of Over Fox Creek Meadow, (and Fox Creek), To The Mountains beyond. Also Showing That => Montana Winters At High Elevation, Are Quite Harsh For Tree Survival!
When Henry arrived here ~25 minutes ago, he was hot, tired, and hungry. First order was food, & water from trusty belt-pack supplied (and goody filled) by Tina! Thank you Tina! Then a quick nap, head on folded paper-pack, on large tree root, in shade of knurled trees, to left of this photo.

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…. These Mountains, From Here To Well East of Yellowstone National Park, Collectively Called the Absaroka Mountain Range. Were Experienced By => Chris, The Sutherlands and The Narrator (Pirsig). Their Traveled Over The Absaroka’s, In ZMM Is Called “The High Country”
….. In Laurel, MT: Author Pirsig (As Narrator), Is Greatly Stimulated To Be Near Mountains Again! Here Are Excerpts, What The Narrator Says About These Mountains: Chapter 11 Opens With This “Mood”
…., I wake up wondering if we’re near mountains because of memory or because of something in the air…..
….We are in love with everything this morning and talk about good things all the way down a sunlit morning street to a restaurant. The eggs and hot cakes and coffee are from heaven.
Sylvia says John has talked to someone in town about another route to Bozeman, south through Yellowstone Park.
"South?" I say. "You mean Red Lodge?"
"I guess so."
A memory comes to me of snowfields in June. "That road goes way up above the timberline."
"Is that bad?" Sylvia asks.
"It’ll be cold." In the middle of the snowfields in my mind appear the cycles and us riding on them. "But just tremendous."
We meet John again and it’s settled. Soon, beyond a railroad underpass, we are on a twisting blacktop through fields toward the mountains up ahead. This
is a road Phædrus used all the time, and flashes of his memory coincide everywhere. The high, dark Absaroka Range {and Red Lodge MT] looms directly ahead.
He would use this route to get into the high country, then backpack in from the road for three or four or five days, then come back out for more food and head back in again, needing these mountains in an almost physio-logical way. The train of his abstractions became so long and so involved he had to have the surroundings of silence and space here to hold it straight…..


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Originally Posted May 2019, Revised 3 October 2020.

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