Continued Climbing The “Hogback Formation” To The ZMM Narrator’s Summit.
….View Six Minutes After, And Continuing On One Tier Up From, And Looking Back Towards The ZMM Narrator’s Twin Walls of Snow
….And Still On The Fourth Tier, But Have Moved Left & Turned The Camera Left, So View Is Looking STEEPLY DOWN Northwest, To See One Tier And Part of A Switchback.
….View Includes White and Yellow Wild Flowers, and Slope On-Down To The Marmot.

….[ “Then the tunnel opens onto dark sky again and when we emerge we see….“ ]

Steep Slope On Hogback Formation, At Gravel Edge of Beartooth Highway, WY. …New grass grows out of the gravel beside the highway pavement. We also see a variety of small plants, some of which have white or yellow flowers. Look closely and you will see the in the bottom center, several of the red brown broad leaf plants. I accidently discovered this ~”flower Garden” only because I had decided I would park my car and climb down this slope to participate the reality of the Marmot killed on the highway below. You can see the abandoned critter in the center of the highway right lane, this side of the melt water patches.
….(To See The Marmot Close Up In My Personal ZMM Route Experiences Album, Click Here.)
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OBJECT LESSON => Prior To My Climb Down This Slope, I Had Entirely Missed These Wild Flowers
….Also Missed The Flowers Further Down As Shown In NEXT THREE Photos!
….I thus discover that it is easy to completely miss what had been looking for, even though I had been looking for Beartooth Plateau Flowers, ever since The Rock Cree Vista Point !!
….For example, I had just driven the highway seen below, parked somewhat beyond to the left of the Marmot location, and had walked around down there to take the previous photo over the guard rail, a portion of which is seen in /\ Above /\ Photo.
….Despite all this looking & taking photos, I had not seen any flowers there (nor down this slope) until I started to climb down this steep slope!
AGAIN THE MAJOR ZMM MESSAGE =>
….Stop! Get Out Of Your Car, and Go Hiking!!
Most Often You Will Be Totally Surprised, Even Delighted, By What You Find!!
….Either Way: Participate! Be There!!
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In /\ Above /\ Photo, notice the washed out white sky. This is the effect of photographing in a direction towards the PM sun. Please remember this and contrast to forthcoming photos, some of which show similar washed out white sky, and others do not.
….AND That wood pole is NOT a tree! (Answer in later photos.) For Topo Map, Click on WayPt Number below.
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To See Two More Good Examples Of High-Altitude “Darker Blue Sky & Black Shadows.“
….AND A Super High-Altitude Balloon View.
..A) To Appreciate The “Darker Blue Sky & Black Shadows.“ => Click Till Get Largest View.
..B) To Appreciate The “Darker Blue Sky & Black Shadows.“ => Click Till Get Largest View.
..C) At The TOP of this View, You see the Bold Blue Curve Of Earth’s Uppermost Atmosphere. Looking Further Up. The Bold Blue Shades To The TOTALLY BLACK Of Outer space. Click Till Get Largest View.
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(Photo = 106-0630 ...... ZMM Page = 110 ...... WayPt = WayPt = 144w > After Map Come Up > Upper left > Immediately Click Upper Left > For full Screen.)