On a Dirt Road That Leads to Town, I Find a Great Panorama View of the Montana Yellowstone River that Valley Surrounding the Town Itself. The Yellowstone National Park Mountains Are Seen To the South.
“We reach an intersection where the road from the park joins the main east-west highway, stop and turn on to it. .. From here we go over a low pass and into Bozeman itself. The road goes up now, heading west, and suddenly I’m looking forward to what’s ahead.“
On a dirt road to the Southwest edge of Livingston, MT. The panorama opens with a view West Toward Bozeman. You can see, as the Narrator says, it is up hill to the West where they must climb to cross Bozeman Pass into Bozeman. A small portion of the dirt read is also seen. After you scroll beyond the barn, you will see a portion of the Interstate (I 90) as it heads up to Bozeman Pass. Continued scrolling reveals the town of Livingston and beyond the town is the relatively flat valley of the Yellowstone River. After the valley, a fantastic view of the Snow Covered Mountains of Yellowstone National Park open-up, to the South. The panorama finishes with a Green Grassy Hill and some close-ups of some sage plants.
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This View of Bozeman, From the East side of Town, Illustrates the Narrator's Description of Their Approach To Town. This Is the Green Valley "Where It All Happened..
“We ride down out of the pass onto a small green plain. To the immediate south we can see pine-forested mountains that still have last winter’s snow on the peaks. In all other directions appear lower mountains, more in the distance, but just as clear and sharp. This picture-postcard scenery vaguely fits memory but not definitely. This interstate freeway we are on must not have existed then. .. The statement "To travel is better than to arrive" comes back to mind again and stays. We have been traveling and now we will arrive. For me a period of depression comes on when I reach a temporary goal like this and have to reorient myself toward another one.“
Bozeman, MT. To "To travel is better than to arrive" is a master motifs". Sections of the Narrator's "interstate freeway" are seen on both sides of the pillared white building near panorama center. At no point on the freeway into town could I find a vantage point form which to illustrate this passage. As you can see, the interstate freeway runs along a relatively low area, thus blocking the grand view of the mountains seen from here. The lush green is most assuredly is from irrigation. By contrast, note the considerably browner hills in the medium distance.
This panorama (as well as many of my others) is more than full circle. Thus you see the hill-top "water cylinder", both at the start & end of the Pan. Remember the water cylinder $ the hill. The next panorama vantage-point is up byt the water cylinder.
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SIDE NOTE: See this photo for somewhat better explanation. By Henry Gurr 16 April 2021.

View Over Bozeman and Montana State University Bozeman MSU-B, From View Point On Upper Slopes of "Water Cylinder Hill".
“This isn’t really a small town. People are moving too fast and too independently of one another. It’s one of these population fifteen-to-thirty-thousand towns that isn’t exactly a town, not exactly a city—not exactly anything really. .... We walk under shady trees on very neat sidewalks past neat houses. The avenues provide many small surprises of recognition. Heavy recall. He’s walked through these streets many times. Lectures. He prepared his lectures in the peripatetic manner, using these streets as his academy. .. The subject he’d been brought here to teach was rhetoric, writing, the second of the three R’s. He was to teach some advanced courses in technical writing and some sections of freshman English.“
Just East of MSU-B, Bozeman, MT. The view opens showing homes of a housing development. After scrolling by the houses, a major thru-road, several large domed buildings and other buildings come into view. This is MSU-B, This is direction of West. Continued scrolling shows a general overview of the town then the flat wide valley comes into view towards the Northwest. More scrolling shows the Hospital and the Pillared White buildings seen in previous panorama. The thru-road is West Kagy Boulevard.
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Panorama View of Hyalite Dam and Lake. The Snow Covered Mountains, to the South East, Are Most Probably the Goal of Chris and the ZMM Narrator.
“ Just up above the top of the ridge the snow can be seen now. On foot it’s many days away though. “

Upper Hyalite Canyon, Gallatin National Forest, MT. The panorama opens showing a down-stream view of Upper Hyalite Canyon. The gap between the distant mountains shows the “cut” where the canyon goes (North) and is the direction of Bozeman. Continued scrolling shows the creek water, then the stair steps of a fish ladder, then a general overview of the dam, and then the lake. More scrolling reveals the snow covered mountains to the Southeast.
...With further scrolling, you will again see the "Gap” between the mountains, which is the direction of Bozeman, MT.

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Panorama Showing the Narrator’s Canyon (Ahead), the Brown Sign For Lewis and Clark Caves State Park, the Railroad and the Jefferson River.
“ …. the road cuts into a narrow canyon of whitish-tan rock, past some Lewis and Clark caves. “
Jefferson Island, MT. As you start viewing this panorama you see the low "V" in the mountains where the road West will turn into the Narrator's “narrow canyon“. Scroll slightly to the right, you see the Brown sign for the Narrator's “Lewis and Clark caves.“. As you continue scrolling you eventually see the Highway as it comes over the distant low mountain from the East. Then you will also see the railroad and a grand view of the relatively broad and gentile Jefferson River. Although the canyon ahead is quite narrow, the Valley of the Jefferson is here is relatively wide.
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Panorama View of The Once-Upon-a-Time Anaconda Copper Mining and Processing Operation.
“Later we pass the great stack of the Anaconda smelter, …. “
, Anaconda, MT. The view opens showing the road West where it enters the town of Anaconda seen in the dstance. Continued scrolling shows a general overview of the countryside to the North. Then the dual-lane highway from the East comes into view. More scrolling reveals crass covered “hills”, where is nestled the “great stack of the Anaconda smelter“! Most of these green hills are “copper mining waste dumps” that have recently been reclaimed. To take this photo, I climbed up to the top of the dump on the north side of highway. Where I stopped my car to take this photo, there were copper green colored rocks in the ditch long the road. The green may have been a deposit from water run-off from the dump piles, or actual pieces of copper ore.
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Panorama View Towards Downtown Missoula from I-90. The Larger Buildings Are to the South.
"On either side of us the mountains have become steep, to form a long narrow valley that winds into Missoula. This head wind has worn me down and I’m tired now. Chris taps me and points to a high hill with a large painted M on it. I nod. This morning we passed one like it as we left Bozeman. A fragment occurs to me that the freshmen in each school go up there and paint the M each year. ...... Chris keeps asking to go up to the M, but I can see from here it’s a steep, rutty, scrambler road. With our highway machine and heavy load I don’t want to fool with it."
I-90 at East entrance to Missoula, MT. This panorama illustrates the Narrator's accurate description of the entrance to Missoula after they have gone over the mountain pass from Livingston. Note how the interstate has just emerged from the narrow canyon at the left of the panorama. Above the canyon you will see the large white "M" on the mountain side. This same the next "M" is visible in the next panorama, which shows the view seen from the West side of Missoula.
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Panorama View of Valley and Mountains Surrounding Missoula Montana.
"All traces of the East are gone now, at least in my imagination. All the rain here comes from Pacific winds and all the rivers and streams here return it to the Pacific. We should be at the ocean in two or three days."
Center of wide valley on West side Missoula, MT. The Panorama opens with a view of the valley floor and the majestic mountains to the Southwest. The semi-arid nature of this area is seen in the grass and vegetation. If you see greener than this it is because of irrigation or you are at higher elevation in the mountains. As you scroll you will see the busy main highway leading West. Continued scrolling, perpendicular to the highway, shows the local hills to the North. More scrolling shows the highway into Missoula and the Mountains to the East. The mountain pass seen in the previous panorama is just to the left of the highway direction and the "Mon the mountainside" is just to the right of the highway. As you continue scrolling you will come to a largest electric power pole (with transformer). At this point you are looking South where both the River and the ZMM Route (Rt 56) head Southwest to the base of the mountains at right of the power pole. The Narrator is correct that the rivers and streams flow to the Pacific Ocean from here since thy crossed the Continental Divide earlier in the day.
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Panorama View of the Lochsa River Canyon, at the Colgate Lick Rest Area. This Area Has Springs and Natural Salt Lick Deposits. Evidence of a Bad Forest Fires Mentioned by the Narrator Is Still Seen!
"Turns in the road are less sharp here and straight stretches are longer. I move into the highest gear. .. Later the trees become scarce and spindly, with large areas of grass and underbrush between them. It’s too hot for the jacket and sweater so I stop at a roadside pulloff to remove them. .. Chris wants to go hiking up a trail and I let him, finding a small shady spot to sit back and rest. Just quiet now, and meditative. .. A display describes a fire burn that took place here years ago. According to the information the forest is filling in again but it will be years before it returns to its former condition."
In Lochsa River Canyon, 50 miles East of Lowel, ID. The Panorama opens with a view of the steep mountain side beyond the highway. The Lochsa River is unseen in the thick trees. Soon after you start scrolling, you see the Highway West as it disappears around a bend. The Rest Area pavement next comes into view where the fire damage is indicated by the dead trees littering the open grassy areas. It is evident from these photos, that the late 50's fire damage, mentioned in a sign, is still present when I came thru in Summer of 2002. This was very likely the damage seen in 1968 by Chris and the Narrator. Apparently this area is so dry and arid that the old dead wood is too dry to rot away, and forest here take a tremendously long time to recover!! What a 1997 USDA Forest Service Web Page said: "Much of the Lochsa River Basin was burned between 1910 and 1934. The 1910, 1919, 1924, and 1934 fires burned a total of 77,100 acres (61%) of the NLF analysis area at various intensity levels. Several of the major drainages burned 2 to 3 times between 1910 and 1934. Most of these double/triple burns retarded natural forest succession, creating extensive serial shrub fields still present today." Several webpages mentioned the "1910 Burn" as being notoriously sever, covering several states, and remembered by all!! More photos and information about the salt lick is given with my Lochesa Canyon photos seen in my Gallery for ZMM Part III.
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