These Tall Pines, At Right, Are OUTSIDE The Town Limits.
….Contrary To The ZMM Narrator’s Description
……We Note The Present Day Absence of Pine Trees INSIDE the Town Itself.

…. “Outside the picture window across the road are huge pines. Many cars pass beneath them on their way to the park. We’re a long way down from the timberline now. Warmer here but covered over with an occasional low cloud ready to drop rain. .. I suppose if I were a novelist rather than a Chautauqua orator I’d try to "develop the characters" of John and Sylvia and Chris with action-packed scenes that would also reveal "inner meanings" of Zen and maybe Art and maybe even Motorcycle Maintenance. That would be quite a novel, but for some reason I don’t feel quite up to it. They’re friends, not characters, and as Sylvia herself once said, "I don’t like being an object!" So a lot of things we know about one another I’m simply not going into. Nothing bad, but not really relevant to the Chautauqua. That’s the way it should be with friends. …. (Continued Next)

Cooke City, MT. The ZMM Narrator’s “ across the road …. huge pines”. most certainly must have been there. … Witness the big pines in the /\ Above /\ Photo at right in this Cook City close up photo, taken at the East entrance to the town.
….When I was there 2002 & 2006, I was actively looking for big pines to photograph in the business area, but I saw NONE!
…Apparently too many car parking lots, new buildings, plus need for firewood, in a word “progress”, have eliminated all the big pines that were once in this town. Shame! Low Quality!

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(Photo = 106-0665c ...... ZMM Page = 120-121 ...... WayPt = 157`|k|' 7573ft)