A Grand View Of The Powder River Valley, AND The Distant Horizon Shows Crest Of A Major Ridge. ((Click Photo Several Times, To Get The Largest View.))

….THEN PLEASE IMAGINE => A Person Standing Upon This Major Ridge, Can Then Overlook => To The West Beyond => And See The Valley of The Yellowstone River, & The Full Spread of Miles City, MT.

…. "So I go ahead and we take it slowly. “

Locate, MT
…. In the /\ Above /\ View => Note Dark Clouds, Which Serve To Foretell Of The Clouds & Cool Rain That, Our ZMM Travelers, Narrator, Sylvia, John, And Chris Will Experience.

….EXPLANATION => As has been mentioned in the fourth, third, & second previous Photos, our ZMM Travelers, Narrator, Sylvia, John, and Chris have "entered a low-rimmed canyon" and then after 2 miles, turned into the "road side stop". ,,,, Then they are back on US-12 again.
… After some 11 miles West from the "road side stop", the road goes down into a Dry Stream Channel, does a Somewhat Dramatic “S-Curve” to cross it. (This was seen in the Previous Photo)
….Then after going over the next road crest, the road starts down a long grade, to The Powder River. (This is shown in the /\ Above /\ Photo.)

…. In /\ Above /\ Photo => Look Close.=> Beyond The Flat Grassy Area Direct Ahead, You See IN The Darker Trees, A Small White Building. This marks the location of the The Once-Upon-A-Time Town Of Locate MT , and just beyond, at the base, the line of dark green, marks trees growing at The Powder River.

WE MUST BE SURE TO NOTICE => How Robert Pirsig Uses Change In Elevation (725 Ft),=> To Build A Narrative Dramatic Climax, In The Last Half Of His ZMM Chapter 7. =>
….The /\ Above /\ Photo View, the Narrator calls a "low-rimmed canyon", despite the fact that it is just a broad river valley as is discerned by the traveler. In addition to the fact that our Narrator is traveling in a super heat-wave, they have been descending ever since well before the soapy water rest area. As they cross the dry stream bed, they are at an elevation of 2450ft. As is always associated with Elevation Changes => This somewhat lower elevation ALSO adds to the heat they feel. Clearly we have left the undulating high plains behind and are getting ready to climb up ONTO that into that above mentioned “Major Ridge” ahead!
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..A) All day our ZMM Travelers have had to endure =>
…. the heat is just ferocious… The heat just slams into us. Even with dark sunglasses I have to squint my eyes into slits. There’s nothing but burning sand and pale sky so bright it’s hard to look anywhere. It’s just become white-hot everywhere. A real inferno. …
..B) This …Ferocious Heat… Continues Thru Their Crossing The Powder River.
…However with the slowly increasing elevation (725 Ft), to The Crest of The Major Ridge shown in the /\ Above /\ Photo, things surprisingly change => To where the ZMM Narrator will say => "Overhead a small cloud appears. Rain perhaps? Perhaps. Meadows must have rain. And these now have flowers in them. Strange how all this has changed.
..C) Things surprisingly change => To where the ZMM Narrator will say =>
…. "Overhead a small cloud appears. Rain perhaps? Perhaps. Meadows must have rain. And these now have flowers in them. Strange how all this has changed.

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TO FURTHER STUDY => About How Robert Pirsig Uses Change In Elevation (725 Ft),=> To Build A Narrative Dramatic Climax, In The Last Half Of His ZMM Chapter 7. =>
..A) FROM >> …Ferocious Heat… at the Powder River (2392 Ft),
..B) TO >> …Rain & A Cool Walk In The Woods… at Main Ridge Road (3117 Ft.).
ARRANGED SO YOU WILL UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT =>
….Please Complete The Following Series of Somewhat Complex Steps, =>
C) => RIGHT CLICK AND SELECT “NEW TAB”… Will Come-Up Showing => FIVE Album Descriptions. Please Scroll Down to THIRD Album Down, Read Its Description, THEN Click On The Small Photo.
D) At this point, you should be looking at a Page Of 6 Small Photos, with a full description of each. Please look over these to see the General Ideas Presented => About How Landscape Scenery Changes With Elevation, AND Correlated To Persons Comfort Level. .
E) At this point, you are ready to look at specifics => Please > Do > Edit > Find > Landscape …>
F) THEN > For the EACH of The FOUR Caption So Found, =>.Please Read the ENTIRE Caption For => How The Stated Change In Elevation, is quite enough, to CHANGE from HOT & DRY, to COOLER & FORESTS.
….AND Understand How Elevation Increase (725 Ft), Is Quite & For Enough Extra Rain, Thus Creating Forested Meadows, Which The ZMM Narrator Delightfully Reports!!
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