Back On the Street of Red Lodge.

…. “ …. we put on the heavy clothing, repack and soon have traveled to …. “

Broadway (Main) Street, Red Lodge, MT. The /\ Above /\ Photo is a view half way uphill from the Court House to the Restaurant. The restaurant is on the left and on the oppose side of street is the photography shop and the candy shop.
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…Although the mountain seen in this view seems to dominate when walking the streets in Red Lodge, it dropped completely out of my awareness as I was walking & driving in the downtown and as I drove further South. Also out of my awareness was any perception of the confining bluffs or “both-sides-of-this-Rock Creek Valley”.
…. I’m wondering why? Is this because as one gets nearer to the base of the mountain, it starts to be “just a big hill” partly obscured by the town’s trees? Likewise for the confining bluffs. Either way “the mountain” & “the bluffs” ceased to attract my attention. In fact, all the time I was driving from Laurel towards Red Lodge and even through Red Lodge, I was not very much aware of being in a valley, because I was not paying attention to the rather few views of the Valley Bluffs, on either side of me...
….This Quite Different From My Expectations & Visualizations, In My Earliest Readings Of ZMM. In These Readings =>
….I had always visualized any ZMM discussion of “valley” or “creek”, as being in Quite Narrow and V-Shaped” Valley. This is because the ‘Valleys” I had mostly seen, were when I traveled in the really rugged mountains of West Virginia. In this state, the valley towns are squeeze between-walls! And thus when driving through a West Virginia Valley Town, you see only just: 1) a-creek 2) a highway and 3) a-single-line-of-houses!

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