The NON Involved ZMM Traveler Will Not Discover the Narrator’s Meltwater Stream Until Rock Creek Park, Where It’s Right By US-212 & Obvious.
….Looking Through The Trees => Note Dry Grass Covered Bluff In Distance, Upper Left, Signifying the East Edge of the Valley.

….….[ “ When coffee is finished we put on the heavy clothing, repack and have soon traveled to … “ ]

Just South of Downtown Red Lodge, MT. Here at a second large city park, this huge rushing mountain stream runs immediately by the highway. But even at Red Lodge, the water is surely “older” than an hour!
….In 2006, I was better primed, and remembered to snap the /\ Above /\ Photo. However, in 2002, by failure of attention, I did not get Narrator’s “meltwater creek” photograph here.
….At the time I remember thinking => No problem, since I expected to get good shots of the stream & canyon ahead. But as before Red Lodge, good views of the stream eluded me. And ALSO somehow I missed the one good place I later found in 2006 (6th next photo).
….Continuing travel South from Red Lodge, my experience was the same as before Red Lodge =>”The stream” was generally not close enough to directly perceive (or photograph) from road, until I entered the U shaped glacial valley.
… And by then the road was way up the canyon wall, and way too far away to properly illustrate the ZMM Narrator’s “We are following a creek to its source.” ,.

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(Photo = Summer2006 0481 ...... ZMM Page = 109 ...... WayPt = 127k ~5600ft)