The ZMM Turnoff Where Tourists Take Pictures. .

…. “We stop and park at a turnoff where a number of tourists take pictures and look around at the view and at one other. At the back of his cycle John removes his camera from the saddlebag. From my own machine I remove the tool kit and spread it out on the seat, then take the screwdriver, start the engine and with the screwdriver adjust the carburetors until the idling sound changes from a really bad loping to just slightly bad.“

Second Roadside Rest Area, Beartooth Highway, WY. In 2002, I somehow I missed the “turnoff“ to the place where “tourists take pictures“. This turnoff area with Parking Loop is shown in the topo map link below.
….This topo map also shows that the turnoff parking lot is high enough to have a Dramatic Full Panorama View in most direction except East. This would include Beartooth Mountain to the West, and Granite Peak to the Northwest. Granite Peak is the highest in Montana at 12,799 feet.
…. A Really Grand & Full Panorama View, including East, is but a short hike away. The Topo Map shows =>
..A) A knoll North & A Bit West of the parking lot. AND
..B) A second somewhat Higher knoll, East of the Parking Lot: This is “Stockaid” Peak at BM Bench Mark 11,029 ft.

Google Finds =>
..C) A Short Ascent Report and How To Find The Bench Mark.
..D) A Full Hike Report + ~8 Photos + Gobbs Advertisements
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… And When We Emerge We See We’re At The Summit.
….Beyond Is Another Country. Mountain Lakes And Pines And Snowfields Are Below. Above And Beyond Them As Far As We Can See Are Farther Mountain Ranges Covered With Snow. The High Country.
….The Blue Link below, also shows, OH WOW, Lakes All Over The Place, as attested by the Narrator. But ZMM Traveler, such as myself, does not experience this many lakes: This is due to the irregular landscape and the return of dense forests!
….TopoZone Map Showing “Beartooth Pass” and Turnoff To “Overlook Roadside Park”. > After Map Comes Up > Upper left > Immediately Click-On Square > For full Screen.
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SIDE NOTE: Paper Road Maps Are Not Generally Not Good Enough To Show All The Switchbacks Of The Beartooth Highway.
… Pirsig Pilgrims, especially since they really need to "go hiking", should bring good topo maps. Consider the Topozone Maps already mentioned. You of course may print one of these directly off your computer, or order a color plastic coated version from Topozone. .

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(Photo = September 2006 0092 ...... ZMM Page = 111 ...... WayPt Assigned = ~145q = BM 10,947 ft)

Soon “ We’ll Be Going Down “
…Loose “Rock-soil” and Rocks Pushed Out By Bulldozer To Level The Roadbed.
…….These Rocks, Beside Pavement Face Southwest And Are Warmed By Sun Exposure =>
…… And Sun Warmth Brings On New Grass and Tiny Purple Flowers, And Even Nice For A Marmot Den.

…. “I’m surprised at how all the way up it backfired and sputtered and kicked and gave every indication it was going to quit but never did. I didn’t adjust them, out of curiosity to see what eleven thousand feet of altitude would do. Now I’m leaving them rich and sounding just bad because we’ll be going down some now toward Yellowstone Park and if they aren’t slightly rich now they’ll get too lean later on, which is dangerous because it overheats the engine.“

Beartooth Highway, WY. My notes say “Marmot digging hole in gravel area.”. My memory says it was this was in the bank of road fill beside the pavement! (Or a place just like it!) A Marmot is a ground burrow dwelling vegetarian rodent that is similar in most respects, to what is called in Northcentral & Northeastern USA a “Ground Hog”. This is the critter of folklore that => “Sees Its Shadow” on the infamous “Ground Hog Day”, February 2nd, thus predicting 6 more weeks of winter
….There Were Marmot Burrows All Over This Area. I wish I could have taken a photo of their habitat. Later my notes say “Saw two more big fuzzy-wuzzy Marmots.”
….Apparently this elevation and these mountains are a favorite habitat, because I saw all together some seven scampering Marmots. But I was never able to get a good photograph, because they are very hard to pick out in the brown grass. The only time I actually saw them, they were rapidly galloping directly to their burrow, and instantly gone from sight!

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(Photo = 106-0637...... ZMM Page = 110-111...... WayPt Assigned = ~145r = Road edge, about a mile SW of BM 10,947ft)

Five More Switchbacks Are Ahead As We Get Ready To Head Down.
….“The backfiring is still fairly heavy on the way down from the summit with the engine dragging in second gear, …. “

About A Mile SW Of Narrator’s “The Summit “, Beartooth Highway, MT. About a mile after the “a turnoff” Roadside Rest Area & Scenic Park, the Beartooth Highway starts another series of five switchbacks on a slope down, as steep and twisty, as scenic as those on the way up! Soon after that, there are two more switchbacks, which bring the ZMM traveler to the valleys with “ mountain lakes and pines ”.
….These switchbacks and the lakes are shown in the next two photos, which were taken ~ another mile further SW..

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(Photo = 106-0636 cz2.6. ...... ZMM Page = 111 ...... WayPt Assigned = ~145r = Road edge, about a mile SW of BM 10,947 ft)

Another View From The ZMM Turnoff Where Tourists Take Pictures.
…This Photo and the Next Show Adjacent Views Which Are
…..Looking Over Where There Will Be A Series of Seven Switchbacks
…….As We Get Ready To Head On Down To the Lakes and Valleys Below.

…. ["The backfiring is still fairly heavy on the way down from the summit with the engine dragging in second gear, …. "]

Southwest Rocky Pinnacle Edge Of, Second Roadside Rest Area, Beartooth Highway, WY. …The /\ Above Photo and the next (showing view to right) were taken from the high area of the previous shown & mentioned "a turnoff", which is the Second Roadside Rest Area & Scenic Park.
….As mentioned in the Previous Photo the Beartooth Highway soon starts another series of five switchbacks on a slope down, as steep and twisty, as scenic as those on the way up! Soon after that, there are two more switchbacks, which bring the ZMM traveler to the valleys with “ mountain lakes and pines ”.
….These switchbacks and the lakes, will also be shown in the NEXT Photos, taken ~ another mile further SW. As you will see from the Next Photo, it’s not far until the highway starts the slope on the way down..

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(Photo = September 2006 0100 ...... ZMM Page = 111 ...... WayPt Assigned = ~145q = BM 10,947 ft)

From The Previous Photo The Continuing View To The Right.
…. We See the Switchbacks and Lakes Ahead, As We Get Ready To Head On Down,
….We Thus Leave the Real High Country and Enter the Narrator's "The High Country of the Mind” Where He Reviews Western Thought and Western Philosophy.

…. ["The backfiring is still fairly heavy on the way down from the summit with the engine dragging in second gear, …. "]

Southwest Rocky Pinnacle Edge Of, Second Roadside Rest Area, Beartooth Highway, WY. …The /\ Above Photo (and the Previous Photo), were taken from the high area of the previous shown & mentioned, "a turnoff" Roadside Rest Area & Scenic Park.
…As you can see from the /\ Above /\ Photo, it’s not far, until the highway starts the slope on the way down, and soon will be into another series of seven switchbacks, on a slope as steep as those on the way up! And soon we will be in the Lakes and Valleys of the Narrator's Philosophic High Country.
….To get to Yellowstone National Park (YNP) (Northeast gate), this road must go South deeper into Wyoming as it swings around the mountain range that forms the headwaters of Rock Creek. After that it goes West for ~10 miles, then heads somewhat Northwest thrrough a different and wider valley and leads to crossing yet another mountain range.

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(Photo = September2006 0101 ...... ZMM Page = 111 ...... WayPt Assigned = ~145q = BM 10,947ft)

Oh Ho!! So THAT’S The “Beartooth”!!

…. “ …. but then the [engine].noise diminishes …. “

~Half Mile Southeast Of Island Lake Campground, At Intersection of Rt 149, Beartooth Highway, WY. Suddenly to the West, a gap in the mountains and trees opened up, and there it was! The “Beartooth!”! More properly the twin peaks of Beartooth Mountain.
….Until this split second of recognition, I never knew why my Rand McNally said of this road “Bear Tooth Pass Elevation 10940" (sic).
...The next split second my car was slowing to a stop! My “take a photo” reflex was finally becoming reliable!
….Remember this view as we travel the next 30 miles, first towards this mountain, and then skirt around its Northern flank. In the process, you will see good Photo Examples of the reasons why a name, such as “Beartooth”, gets singled out and transferred from the original landmark to other local land forms.
….For example, the name Beartooth is “applied to” 1) Beartooth Campground, 2) Beartooth Lake, 3) Beartooth Pass, 4) The Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness, 5) This entire geographical area of the country (Beartooth Plateau), and 6) Even this Beartooth Highway.
….In Previous Photos and other contexts => You have seen many examples of this. Even cities are named after geographical areas, such as Rivers or Mountain Ranges.
….As we travel the next thirty miles, you will also see why “Beartooth!” was historically so important as a point of reference, in this otherwise trackless rough mountain terrain.

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(Photo = 106-0638 ...... ZMM Page = 111 ...... WayPt = 147w)

We Return to Pine Trees and Vegetation Typical of Elevations Somewhat Lower in the Mountains.
….But Not So Low For All the Snow To Be Gone.

….[ “the engine noise diminishes” ] “ as we reach lower altitudes. The forests return. We move among rocks “

~Half Mile Southeast Of Island Lake Campground, 300 feet West of Intersection of Rt 149, Beartooth Highway, WY. Here we see dark red-brown in the short dense bushes. Look closely!! These are stunted dwarf pussy willow trees growing, appropriately to willows in general, in a swampy, low bog area. This is of course more of the Narrator’s "meltwater". Note patch of snow by trees at top of the hill.

BACK TO AN OLD TOPIC: This Album’s Photos Mostly Not Show Narrator’s Page 105 Emphasis.
….On ZMM page 105, the Narrator says => “Everything is so intense in this sunlight. Dark shadows, bright light. Dark blue sky. The sun is bright and hot when we’re in it, but when we pass under trees along the road, it’s suddenly cold. ”
….As already mentioned several times, my photos along this highway, US-212, do not show what is in this passages from ZMM. This is due to the high atmospheric moisture. When I was here in both 2002 & 2006, it was nearly always cloudy, no sun, and threatening rain. In Previous Photos, I have already given links to some good example photos which illustrate the above ZMM Passage.
….Please email if you can send photos, taken along The ZMM Route, most especially along the Beartooth Highway, and pictures to illustrate ZMM Page 105.

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(Photo = 106-06340c ...... ZMM Page = 111 ...... WayPt = 148)

A Cathedral Aisle of Pines!

…. “The forests return. We move among rocks and lakes and trees now … .“

Beartooth Highway, WY.

We are now well beyond all the u-turn tight switchbacks, and have been experiencing smooth, easy, scenic driving!

SIDE NOTE:
….You’ve likely noticed that, the last several photos do NOT say where along the Beartooth Highway my photo are located. This is because in this wilderness area there are almost no readily available “markers’, such as Towns or Road Intersections.
For Persons Who Whish To Know =>
..A) The specific location of certain of my photos, can send an email. OR
..B) How To Obtain A Computer File Of => The WayPoint GPS Coordinates.gpx for nearly all of my photos. This file is available. Just send an email request explaining how you could use these GPS Coordinates.

For Persons Who Want To Display A Given Set Of GPS Data Points On A MAP
….Please Know That WayPts Saved To => A Computer File.gpx Can Be Loaded Into The \/ Below \/ Digital Devices, Which Typically Will Then Add The Waypts To A Map
..C) Practically any handheld GPS Unit or Cell Phone.
..D) A variety of Computer APPs that are designed to do this: For Example =>
..E) Google search will help you find APPs, which add WayPts, to a map: But be forewarned =>It is NOT easy to find good software for computer map display of GPS Coordinates Data.gpx =>
After Much Research, I Found The Following Effective, Reasonably Easy To Use Apps =>
….1) EasyGPS gives a good GPS Data Map Display: This is a free download: HOWEVER to add Roads & Geography Features To The Map, require $ subscription.
….2) Similar to 1) ExpertGPS gives a good GPS Data Map Display, but is considerably more powerful and more features: This is a free trial download: HOWEVER eventually you will have to $ purchase continued use.
….3) In this Photo Album, you’ve seen TOPOZONE.com displays of a Single Selected WayPt: But to do this requires special steps, and takes ~5 minutes of work. Please send an email, if you want to know how I do this.
….4) Also: In this Photo Album, you’ve seen GOOGLE SATELLITE displays of a Single Selected WayPt, but this also requires => A Proper Technique => Which you can discern from this EXAMPLE => RIGHT CLICK AND SELECT “NEW TAB” Will Come-Up Where You See =>
..a) Left Panel, Top Field, Typed-In are my Exact #’s of my WayPt = 151w (with minus sign)
…. For youm dear reader, if you wish to see some OTHER WayPt, just replace these Exact #’s, with your numbers.
..b) The Right Satellite panel Shows WayPt = 151w Camera Location For The NEXT PHOTO OF THIS ALBUM, and you will see in The Satellite View=>
….i) RedPinpoint Mark => Which is The Camera Location.
….ii) “Pilot Peak” & “Index Peak” together mark location of Beartooth Mountain Formation.
Please send an email, if you want to know more how I do this.

F) One Of The BEST (And Free) GPS Data Map Display APPS, Is The Computer Application Called GoogleEarth. => . Which does an excellent job of displaying a Satellite View of these mountains, with added a) Roads, Towns, Etc and b) Added all ~500 of my Imported GPS Coordinates for each of my 2002 Photos.
… An especially nice feature => The GoogleEarth Display somewhat reveals the 3D these mountains, by manually doing a ClkDrag of the landscape!
G) A Very Nice (And Free) Satellite Map Is GoogleEarth, Displayed on your Computer’s Internet Browser. => This also does an excellent job of displaying a Satellite View of these mountains, with added a) Roads, Towns, Etc and b) Added ONE of my GPS Coordinates (manually typed-in), for my 2002 Photo or The ZMM Narrator’s “Twin Walls of Snow” .at WayPoint = 142 10,679ft.
….This Browser Version ALSO has the above-mentioned especially nice feature => The GoogleEarth Display somewhat reveals the 3D these mountains, by manually doing a ClkDrag of the landscape! Try it you will like it!

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(Photo = 106-0642 ...... ZMM Page = 111 ...... WayPt = 149w = GPS = 44.94374 -109.57237)

Now We See Why the Beartooth is So Famous

“ The forests return. We move among rocks and lakes and trees now, taking beautiful turns and curves of the road.
….I want to talk about another kind of high country now in the world of thought, which in some ways, for me at least, seems to parallel or produce feelings similar to this, and call it the high country of the mind.
….If all of human knowledge, everything that’s known, is believed to be an enormous hierarchic structure, then the high country of the mind is found at the uppermost reaches of this structure in the most general, the most abstract considerations of all.
….Few people travel here. There’s no real profit to be made from wandering through it, yet like this high country of the material world all around us, it has its own austere beauty that to some people makes the hardships of traveling through it seem worthwhile.. “ [Cont next.]

Beartooth Highway, WY. Beautiful mountain valleys. Finally the road is level. The curves are gentle now.
…In /\ Above /\ Photo you see my first real photograph of the famous local landmark, Beartooth Mountain. The twin peaks of this mountain have curved sides and very sharp jagged peaks. This helps create the impression of a Beartooth.
…You will come to appreciate this “curved sides and very sharp peak” is the mountain shape of most high mountain peaks, that are subjected to deep snow and glaciation.
….The curved shape is created by the deep snow and ice (with embedded rocks) sliding down the mountain side, and grinding off the mountain sides until steep slopes are created at the top, eventually leaving a “Sharp Peak”, just like sharpening a knife! …
….If this goes on long enough, the sharp point is finally created, similar to the sharpening of a dull knife, you have to keep grinding till the “sharp” is what is left over! AND the sides are curved because the rocks further down, push the grinding show & ice outward, so the grinding is changed to a lesser slope. Thus the slope curves outward …. Hence the curved sides.

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(Photo = 106-0649 ...... ZMM Page = 111 ...... WayPt = 151w= GPS = 44.934914 -109.757264 ) << [DATE-Line April 12, 2021 This coordinate # is picked off of Goog Sat at reasonable place close to bottom line below, and fits Road and Stream location as close by road at place where should be re photo. (GoogEarth show WayPt 151 >> positioned re road and stream somewhat close to Ie above GPS #’s fits on Satellite View >>
… 1553 US-212, Cody, WY 82414, 44.934914, -109.757264)
….EastGPS finds coordinates below, but seems ~1000ft wrong compared to stream.
...Photo = WayPt = 151w = GPS = 44.92455 -109.74675)

The ZMM Narrator's Lakes and Valleys.

….“ In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty, and to the enormous magnitude of questions asked, and to the answers proposed to these questions. The sweep goes on and on and on so obviously much further than the mind can grasp one hesitates even to go near for fear of getting lost in them and never finding one’s way out.
….What is the truth and how do you know it when you have it? . . . How do we really know anything? Is there an "I," a "soul," which knows, or is this soul merely cells coordinating senses? . . . Is reality basically changing, or is it fixed and permanent? . . . When it’s said that something means something, what’s meant by that?
….Many trails through these high ranges have been made and forgotten since the beginning of time, and although the answers brought back from these trails have claimed permanence and universality for themselves, civilizations have varied in the trails they have chosen and we have many different answers to the same question, all of which can be thought of as true within their own context. Even within a single civilization old trails are constantly closed and new ones opened up.
….It’s sometimes argued that there’s no real progress; that a civilization that kills multitudes in mass warfare, that pollutes the land and oceans with ever larger quantities of debris, that destroys the dignity of individuals by subjecting them to a forced mechanized existence can hardly be called an advance over the simpler hunting and gathering and agricultural existence of prehistoric times. But this argument, though romantically appealing, doesn’t hold up. The primitive tribes permitted far less individual freedom than does modern society. Ancient wars were committed with far less moral justification than modern ones. “ [Cont next.]

The High Country, Beartooth Highway, WY. .
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(Photo = September2006 0147 ...... ZMM Page = 111-112 ...... WayPt =151i )

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)

A Real Police Car, But No Policeman!
….This Situated Police Car Is Very Effective in Slowing the Error Prone Ways of The Speeding Tourist !

…. “At Cooke City John and Sylvia look and sound happier than I have seen them in years, … “

Cooke City, MT. I can tell you from direct "personal encounter” that seeing this Police Car was a very effective way to get the “newbee” to slam on the brakes, to avoid a ticket!
….Here also => I was promptly reminded of my ZMM obligation not to be in “such a hurry“. Avoiding being in “too much of a hurry“ is a ZMM Master Motif.
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…My Rand-McNally Road Map shows US-212 going (~8 miles roughly NW) toward the Beartooth Mountain Butte, then at the base of this Mountain, swinging North, crossing the Wyoming Border Into Montana, then curving around the base of Beartooth Butte to go West over Colter Pass (8,066 ft), and soon enter Cook City, MT.
…. After Cooke City, MT, US-211 will go through town of Silver Gate, MT: Then trending WSW, the road leaves Montana and be again in in Wyoming: Eventually US-212 reaches the Northeast Entry Gate to YNP. All of YNP is officially in Wyoming.
….The Narrator's eight page Discourse On Philosophy in his " High Country of the Mind," is completed at the end of Chapter 11, just before. Cook City, MT.
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….Chapter 12 opens with the above ZMM Passage. After Cook City, the ZMM Narrator discusses his lunch table conversations with John, Sylvia, & Chris:
….Also Narrator discusses his experience and reaction to YNP, and Tourist Attractions. This is mixed in, along with, Phaedrus's experience at Montana State College in Bozeman, MT.

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(Photo = 106-0665 ...... ZMM Page = 120 ...... WayPt = 156`|f|' 7620ft)

Was The ZMM Restaurant The Once-Upon-a Time MaPerkins Café Now a Grocery Store?

…. “ … and we whack into our hot beef sandwiches with great whacks. I’m happy to hear and see all their high-country exuberance but don’t comment much, just keep eating. “

Cooke City, MT.

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(Photo = 106-0666 ...... ZMM Page = 120...... WayPt = 157w)

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)

Cooke City Originally Depended On Mining In the Surrounding Hills.
….But, As This Sign Board Reveals, The Town Now Mostly Relies On the Continual Flow of Tourists.

…. (Continued fm previous) “At the same time I think you can understand from the Chautauqua why I must always seem so reserved and remote to them. Once in a while they ask questions that seem to call for a statement of what the hell I’m always thinking about, but if I were to babble what’s really on my mind about, say, the a priori presumption of the continuity of a motorcycle from second to second and do this without benefit of the entire edifice of the Chautauqua, they’d just be startled and wonder what’s wrong. I really am interested in this continuity and the way we talk and think about it and so tend to get removed from the usual lunchtime situation and this gives an appearance of remoteness. It’s a problem. “

….Above The Narrator Is Referring Back To His Discussing Philosophy On Page 114. Such As These Two Excerpts =>
…. Kant is always superbly methodical, persistent, regular and meticulous as he scales that great snowy mountain of thought concerning what is in the mind and what is outside the mind. It is, for modern climbers, one of the highest peaks of all, and I want now to magnify this picture of Kant and show a little about how he thought and how Phædrus thought about him in order to give a clearer picture of what the high country of the mind is like and also to prepare the way for an understanding of Phædrus’ thoughts. ..Phædrus’ resolution of the entire problem of classic and romantic understanding occurred at first in this high country of the mind, and unless one understands the relation of this country to the rest of existence, the meaning and the importance of lower levels of what he said here will be underestimated or misunderstood.

…. What we think of as reality is a continuous synthesis of elements from a fixed hierarchy of a priori concepts and the ever changing data of the senses. Now stop and apply some of the concepts Kant has put forth to this strange machine, this creation that’s been bearing us along through time and space. See our relation to it now, as Kant reveals it to us. .. Hume has been saying, in effect, that everything I know about this motorcycle comes to me through my senses. It has to be. There’s no other way.

Cooke City, MT. The Narrator, prompted by John, next discusses Robert and Gennie DeWeese whom they will be visiting the next day.
…After explaining about Robert DeWeese as an Abstract Painter Artist. The Narrator switches to outside the restaurant. He says: “Outside a light mist has made the motorcycles wet. I take out the plastic bubble from the saddlebag and attach it to the helmet. We’ll be entering Yellowstone Park soon.“

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(Photo = 106-0667 ...... ZMM Page = 122 ...... WayPt = 157`|m|' 7573ft)

It's Hard To Believe That We Must Continue To Drop In Elevation To Reach the Center of Yellowstone National Park.

…. “The road ahead is foggy. It seems like a cloud has drifted into the valley, which isn’t really a valley at all but more of a mountain pass.“

…. Cooke City, MT..

Readers Need To Know There Are Some Pretty Serious Geological Reasons For =>
….From Here “It’s Downhill => Down Into Yellowstone National Park (YNP) !
….I suggest you continuously watch the WayPt = elevation numbers given at bottom of each photo. You will see that we will continue to go to lower elevations.
… Although this may seem strange, it illustrates that Yellowstone National Park Is Actually in a LOW area (and big Yellowstone Lake), that is surrounded on all sides by a ring of higher mountains! ZMM
….Recall that YNP has gobs of geysers, hot springs, hot mud pools, etc. This thermal and volcanic activity is associated with an underlying geological "hot spot". This Hot Spot, eons ago, was sufficiently severe to have pushed WAY UP, a whole area much, much larger than YNP itself. This "push-up", perhaps ten times the size of YNP, was perhaps SEVERAL MILES HIGHER than we see today.
….Subsequent to this "push-up", the "hot spot" receded, and the center of the push-up, now Yellowstone Park, settled back down, lower than the original. This makes the low "Yellowstone Caldera" seen today. Even low enough to hold Yellowstone Lake!.
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…. Excerpt from Wikipedia => The Yellowstone Caldera is a volcanic caldera and supervolcano in Yellowstone National Park. … At least a dozen of these eruptions were so massive that they are classified as supereruptions. Volcanic eruptions sometimes empty their stores of magma so swiftly that the overlying land collapses into the emptied magma chamber, forming a geographic depression called a caldera.
((The topic of "Yellowstone Caldera" will be continued with longer excerpt, at the SIXTH NEXT Photo )
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….The /\ Above /\ Photo is from several miles East of Cooke City, MT. A better Photo that fits the ZMM passage location is needed.. Snow covered mountains? Or maybe a close up of the Beartooth? Does anyone know of good photos? Please send email.
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(Photo = 106-0660c ...... ZMM Page = 122 ...... WayPt = 157i 7573ft. Photo at = 155`|w|' 8062ft)

Yes Indeed! There It Is!! Straight Out of the Old Picture Books!!!
…. Here We Enter YNP. According to the Map, We Leave Montana (Again) for Wyoming.

…. “At the park entrance we stop and …. “

End of both US-212 & Beartooth Highway at Northeast Gate, Yellowstone National Park, WY. NOTE: Although there is no sign or other indication of it, we have left Montana, and are now back into Wyoming. All of the YNP is officially in Wyoming.
….The ZMM Route switched onto US-212 at Laurel, MT and continued to the NE Gate of YNP, where US-212 … having served it’s Original National Purpose …ends.
….After the North East Gate of YNP, the ZMM Route continues West through Northern YNP, but on a route numbered by the parks own Route Number system: Just prior to Mammoth Hot Springs, YNP, the ZMM Route will switch onto US-89 all the way to Livingston, MT, and there turn onto I-90 West to Bozeman, MT..

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There Are Very Good Reasons Why The “Smokey Bear Hat“ Looooks Just Like a WWI Army Calvary Campaign Hat!

.... “ ….and pay a man in a Smokey Bear hat. He hands us a one-day pass in return. “

End of both US-212 & Beartooth Highway at Northeast Gate, Yellowstone National Park, WY...
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History => Smokey Bear AND "Smokey Bear Hat" Remainder of Wikipedia Article, With 11 Photos.
….Smokey Bear is an American campaign and advertising icon of the U.S. Forest Service. In the Wildfire Prevention Campaign, which is the longest-running public service announcement campaign in United States history, the Ad Council, the United States Forest Service (USFS), and the National Association of State Foresters (NASF), in partnership with creative agency FCB, employ Smokey Bear to educate the public about the dangers of unplanned human-caused wildfires.
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….In 1942, the U.S. Forest Service established the Cooperative Forest Fire Prevention (CFFP) program. The same year, on August 13, Disney's full-length animated motion picture Bambi premiered in New York City. Soon after, Walt Disney allowed his characters to appear in fire prevention public service campaigns. However, Bambi was only loaned to the government for a year, so a new symbol was needed. After much discussion, a bear was chosen. His name was inspired by "Smokey" Joe Martin, a New York City Fire Department hero who suffered burns and blindness during a bold 1922 rescue.
….On August 9, 1944, the creation of Smokey Bear was authorized by the Forest Service[5] (this date is considered the character's birthday[20]), and the first poster was delivered on October 10 by artist Albert Staehle. In the first poster, overseen by the Cooperative Forest Fire Prevention Campaign (CFFP), Smokey was depicted wearing jeans and a [WWI Army Calvary} Campaign Hat,
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….Though Smokey was originally drawn wearing the [WWI Army Calvary] campaign hat of the U.S. Forest Service, the hat itself later became famous by association with the Smokey cartoon character. Today, it is sometimes called a "Smokey Bear Hat" and is still used by the U.S. Forest Service, some branches of the military, and the state police … ((<< See SECOND NEXT Photo for how this [WWI Army Calvary] “Smokey Bear Hat" became established at Yellowstone National Park.))

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