A Second View of the Famous Beartooth Taken September 2006.
….“ A technology that produces debris can find, and is finding, ways of disposing of it without ecological upset. And the schoolbook pictures of primitive man sometimes omit some of the detractions of his primitive life—the pain, the disease, famine, the hard labor needed just to stay alive. From that agony of bare existence to modern life can be soberly described only as upward progress, and the sole agent for this progress is quite clearly reason itself.
….One can see how both the informal and formal processes of hypothesis, experiment, conclusion, century after century, repeated with new material, have built up the hierarchies of thought which have eliminated most of the enemies of primitive man. To some extent the romantic condemnation of rationality stems from the very effectiveness of rationality in uplifting men from primitive conditions. It’s such a powerful, all-dominating agent of civilized man it’s all but shut out everything else and now dominates man himself. That’s the source of the complaint.
….Phædrus wandered through this high country, aimlessly at first, following every path, every trail where someone had been before, seeing occasionally with small hindsights that he was apparently making some progress, but seeing nothing ahead of him that told him which way to go.
….Through the mountainous questions of reality and knowledge had passed great figures of civilization, some of whom, like Socrates and Aristotle and Newton and Einstein, were known to almost everyone, but most of whom were far more obscure. Names he had never heard of before. And he became fascinated with their thought and their whole way of thinking. …. “

Beartooth Highway, WY. In my (Henry Gurr) earliest reading of ZMM, I thought the Narrator's often repeated & austere "The High Country of the Mind" (as see for example in the above passage), took place in the those stark, treeless tundra scenes ABOVE 11,000 ft, such as in the previous photos we just saw.
….Instead, the ZMM Narrator’s philosophy discourse takes place in beautiful mountain valleys where the road is more level, the curves are gentle, and the views just tremendous! Here I’m suddenly reminded => Yes productive philosophy can only happen where there is life, at lower elevations where it is warmer & atmosphere thick enough for green forests and lush meadows to grow. This is in agreement with later in ZMM the Narrator says “Zen is the "spirit of the valley," not the mountaintop.”
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….From the /\ Above /\ Photo Location => In 2002 I was able to find a very nice NFS Campground just a few miles on down the road at Crazy Creek Campground, In 2006 my Son & I were able to find a campground, similarly not very far away, but I don’t remember it looing same as my 2002 camp site or surroundings.
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Pilot Peak, el. 11,522 feet (3,512 m) , is a prominent mountain peak in the Absaroka Range in Park County, Wyoming. AND is the South Peak of what could be called Beartooth Mountain.
Index Peak, el. 10,709 feet (3,264 m), is a prominent mountain peak in the Absaroka Range in Park County, Wyoming. AND is the North Peak of what could be called Beartooth Mountain.

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(Photo = September2006 0158 ...... ZMM Page = 111 ...... WayPt = 151`|w|' 6780ft)