Yellow Wild Flowers At He Northeast Gate Of Yellowstone National Park.
….I Hope My Photos Are “ .... Moments That Will Be Preserved On Film For Years.“

.... “ Ahead I see an elderly tourist take a movie of us, then smile. From under his shorts protrude white legs into street stockings and shoes. His wife, who watches approvingly, has identical legs. I wave to them as we go by and they wave back. It’s a moment that will be preserved on film for years.“

End of both US-212 & Beartooth Highway at Northeast Gate, Yellowstone National Park, WY. When I was there no one else was taking pictures at this Part Gate Area. Thus I have to say I am sorry not to have a better photo to fit this ZMM Passage.
….Here I am moved to wonder it this scene isn't one of Pirsig's many personal photos, which I believe, with extensive Topo Maps, were right by his side as he wrote ZMM.

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The YNP Mammoth Hot Springs Have, Over the Millennia, Built-Up The Huge Mound of Mineral Deposit Seen Here.
….In This View To The North, You Can See Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel & Restaurant Facility.
…. In the Trees to the Right, Note Red Tile Roofs of the Former Army Fort Yellowstone.
….These Original Fort Buildings Are Now The Headquarter Facilities For YNP Administration and Staff Housing.

…. “Phædrus despised this" [Yellowstone National] park without knowing exactly why...because he hadn’t discovered it himself, perhaps, but probably not. Something else. The guided-tour attitude of the rangers angered him. The Bronx Zoo attitudes of the tourists disgusted him even more. Such a difference from the high country all around. It seemed an enormous museum with exhibits carefully manicured to give the illusion of reality, but nicely chained off so that children would not injure them. People entered the park and became polite and cozy and fakey to each other because the atmosphere of the park made them that way."

NE corner of Mammoth Hot Springs, Intersection US-89, Yellowstone National Park, WY. The /\ Above /\ Photo is shown here, because it so nicely shows the “Chained Off " Fences, and “ Guided Tour " Boardwalks the Narrator complains about here.
….Perhaps, by POETIC ANALOGY, we might conclude that the “The Bronx Zoo attitudes of the tourists”, also happens at some other places in => “ The Philosophy and High Country of the Mind ". Being somewhat sacred territory to Phaedrus, there might also be other places, that were just as much disgusting to the ZMM Narrator?
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Yellowstone National Park History: Original Control By US Army, and Of Course WWI Army Calvary Campaign Hat! =>
….Otherwise Known As The "Smokey Bear Hat"! Remainder of Wikipedia Article, With 33 Photos and 5 Maps. On Photo Shows The Former Army Fort Yellowstone.
….Ongoing poaching and destruction of natural resources continued unabated until the U.S. Army arrived at Mammoth Hot Springs in 1886 and built Camp Sheridan. Over the next 22 years, as the army constructed permanent structures, Camp Sheridan was renamed Fort Yellowstone.[52] On May 7, 1894, the [Daniel] Boone and [Davy] Crockett Club, acting through the personality of George G. Vest, Arnold Hague, William Hallett Phillips, W. A. Wadsworth, Archibald Rogers, Theodore Roosevelt, and George Bird Grinnell were successful in carrying through the Park Protection Act, which saved the park. The Lacey Act of 1900 provided legal support for the officials prosecuting poachers. With the funding and manpower necessary to keep a diligent watch, the army developed their own policies and regulations that permitted public access while protecting park wildlife and natural resources. When the National Park Service was created in 1916, many of the management principles developed by the army were adopted by the new agency.[52] The army turned control over to the National Park Service on October 31, 1918.
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Remainder of Eileen L. Williamson’s Article, With a 1912 Photo Showing 11 US Calvary Men In Ranger Uniform (Each with Smokey Bear Hat) At Old Faithful Geyser.
….The ranger uniform, be it National Park Service, Forest Service or U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, got its start with the First Cavalry’s arrival at Yellowstone in 1886. From 1886-1916, cavalry troops were assigned at several national parks.
When the national park service was formed, many military personnel who had served in the parks accepted discharges from the Army and were appointed as rangers in the Park Service. The men who formed the first civilian ranger service, brought with them the unofficial “ranger” uniform including the signature campaign hat.

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Is This “An Enormous Carefully Manicured Museum"[that gives] “The Illusion of Reality?

….[ “It seemed an enormous museum with exhibits carefully manicured to give the illusion of reality, but nicely chained off so that children would not injure them."]

NE corner of Mammoth Hot Springs, Intersection US-89, Yellowstone National Park, WY. Of course, we all agree with the Narrator that without the "manmade fences", the hordes of people who come here would, “walk on the exhibits”, soon completely destroying these wonderful formations. But the "man domination" (people, roads, parking lots, fences, mowed grass, etc) all inescapably change, and tend to destroy, the wholeness of nature, which is what exactly you are visiting to see. (This thought continued in caption next.)
….So the ZMM Pilgrim, knowing this, should endeavor (wherever possible) to leave the human "beaten path" and go slow to explore/absorb “the real thing” !!
….The Narrator, on ZMM next page (p126), discusses what he learned about Oriental Religions from his several year trip to India, and the study of Oriental philosophy. .He gives a passage that purposefully speaks to what he is saying about his objections to YNP =>
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-> “In all of the Oriental religions great value is placed on the Sanskrit doctrine of Tat tvam asi, "Thou art that," which asserts that everything you think you are and everything you think you perceive are undivided. To realize fully this lack of division is to become enlightened. “
….This is an important passage, which should be carefully applied when a person is anywhere (but most especially a “Tourist Attraction”): They should seek, Quality In Action, to keep a proper sense of undivided wholeness before your awareness, or at least before “your mind’s eye”!

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From Higher Up: Another View Of More Mineral Deposits.
….Again, Note the Curved Grey Line Just Above the Buildings Center.
…..This Is US-89 Road Going North Out of the Park’s Northwest Gate:
…….As You Will See, This Road Follows The Valley of The Gardner River All The Way To Gardener, MT.

….[ “People entered the park and became polite and cozy and fakey to each other because the atmosphere of the park made them that way. ….. In the entire time he had lived within a hundred miles of it he had visited it only once or twice.]

NE corner of Mammoth Hot Springs, Intersection US-89, Yellowstone National Park, WY. What the Narrator says is indeed true of fellow tourists: For example at these Hot Springs => I found myself “striking up conversations” with many different people, and even talking to and helping children!
….In a very memorable example => One geology knowledgeable man, seeing me take so many pictures, decided I was interested in learning more. He took the time to explain the geography and geology of the larger Yellowstone National Park:
….He explained just how YNP is essentially a giant volcanic “caldera”, or “basin”: that had “sunk down’ in the center of the surrounding high mountains. This formed a high ring of mountains all around a considerably lower park. He showed me from a high board walkway like this one (In /\ Above Photo), how to look at the most distant mountains to the North, to actually see this was true! (In /\ Above Photo, and several previous, these mountains are seen in the distance.)

Continued From 6th Previous Photo
…. Here Is A Longer "Yellowstone Caldera" Excerpt From Same Wikipedia Page =>
….Volcanism at Yellowstone is relatively recent, with calderas that were created during large eruptions that took place 2.1 million, 1.3 million, and 630,000 years ago. The calderas lie over the Yellowstone hotspot under the Yellowstone Plateau where light and hot magma (molten rock) from the mantle rises toward the surface. The hotspot appears to move across terrain in the east-northeast direction, and is responsible for the eastern half of Idaho's Snake River Plain, but in fact the hotspot is much deeper than terrain and remains stationary while the North American Plate moves west-southwest over it.
….Over the past 18 million years or so, this hotspot has generated a succession of explosive eruptions and less violent floods of basaltic lava. Together these eruptions have helped create the eastern part of the Snake River Plain (to the west of Yellowstone) from a once-mountainous region. 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 oldest identified caldera remnant straddles the border near McDermitt, Nevada–Oregon, although there are volcaniclastic piles and arcuate faults that define caldera complexes more than 60 km (37 mi) in diameter in the Carmacks Group of southwest-central Yukon, Canada, which are interpreted to have been formed 70 million years ago by the Yellowstone hotspot.[7][8] Progressively younger caldera remnants, most grouped in several overlapping volcanic fields, extend from the Nevada–Oregon border through the eastern Snake River Plain and terminate in the Yellowstone Plateau. One such caldera, the Bruneau-Jarbidge caldera in southern Idaho, was formed between 10 and 12 million years ago, and the event dropped ash to a depth of one foot (30 cm) 1,000 miles (1,600 km) away in northeastern Nebraska and killed large herds of rhinoceros, camel, and other animals at Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) estimates there are one or two major caldera-forming eruptions and a hundred or so lava extruding eruptions per million years, and "several to many" steam eruptions per century.
….The loosely defined term "supervolcano" has been used to describe volcanic fields that produce exceptionally large volcanic eruptions. Thus defined, the Yellowstone Supervolcano is the volcanic field that produced the latest three supereruptions from the Yellowstone hotspot; it also produced one additional smaller eruption, thereby creating the West Thumb of Yellowstone Lake[10] 174,000 years ago. The three supereruptions occurred 2.1 million, 1.3 million, and approximately 630,000 years ago,
….. Click Here To Continue Reading Wikipedia "Yellowstone Caldera".

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Year By Year Over Eons of Time, The Steaming Hot Water,
….Laden With Minerals, Gradually Deposits & Builds-Up These Spectacular Limestone Terraces!

…. “But this is getting out of sequence. There’s a span of about ten years missing. He didn’t jump from Immanuel Kant to Bozeman, Montana. During this span of ten years he lived in India for a long time studying Oriental philosophy at Benares Hindu University.“

NE corner of Mammoth Hot Springs, Intersection US-89, Yellowstone National Park, WY. The Narrator discusses Phaedrus’ India experience and finishes with his thoughts as to he came to these mountains in the first place.
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Ian Glendinning’s Pirsig Page Has Considerable Information & Links On Robert Pirsig & His Book “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
..A) For A TimeLine of Robert Pirsig (ie Phaedrus.) Life AFTER This Page Comes Up, Click-On “a timeline of his life”.
..B) Lots More Info & Links on Ian Glendinning’s Pirsig Page.

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A View Discovered On A Climb-Down To The Gardiner River.
…The Buildings Low in the Yellowstone River Valley Ahead, Are Gardiner, MT.
…..Notice The Brilliant Red Lichen On Rock At Left and Small Spots Red On Rock At Right.

…. “We exit from [Yellowstone National Park] the park at Gardiner, …. “

Approach to Gardiner, MT. Here I decide to climb down to and photograph the Gardiner River. I did this probably because I had missed getting good photos for Rock Creek back before Red Lodge.
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….As shown in my Rand-McNally, US-89 leaves YNP & Wyoming, going ~North along the Gardner River to Gardner, MT, where both road & river meet the Yellowstone River.
..A) The Yellowstone River has its origin in Lake Yellowstone & Yellowstone Falls: REMINDER => Already Mentioned In The Fourth Previous Photo Wikipedia’s YNP Has 33 Photos & 5 Maps: These Include 2 Photos of Yellowstone Falls, & One Photo of Lake Yellowstone: The Maps Show how the lake’s water flows over the falls, and starts the Yellowstone River.
..A) Cont: The lake, falls, and river discussed A) above, are a consequence of Yellowstone Caldera which created this terrain. You may want to read more about the Yellowstone Caldera at end of Wikipedia Excerpt of Second Previous Photo.
..B) The Gardiner River originates in Northwestern YNP, and probably includes water from the Mammoth Hot Springs.
….The road down from YNP was very twisty, and the steepest I have yet encountered! Apparently. this is a very, very, old military horse & wagon road, which was used to establish the original Fort Yellowstone. Since the fort was originally only for military patrol of what was then a very remote, inaccessible area, road costs were kept down by making it steep! You must have good brakes!

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Here the Landscape Is So Dry That Cactus Plants Hold The Land.

…. “ …. where not much rain seems to fall, because the mountainsides show only grass and sage in the twilight.“

Approach to Gardiner, MT.
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….Here at /\ Above /\ Photo, as well as on my way through YNP, I found many Interesting Flowers & Plants.
....This is factually another demonstration of the GREAT discoveries you find when you get out of your car! In this case I had decided to climb-down to photograph the river, and the /\ Above /\ Photo & Previous Photo factually show I found much, much, more!!
….For The ZMM Route => My Photos Showing Flowers In ZMM Narrator’s High Country, Which Is In My Album of Flower & Redwing Blackbirds. Click Here . AFTER this page comes up, CLICK SMALL PHOTO UPPER RIGHT. Then Upper Right Click on >> To Go To Next Photo. Continue next Photo, until you see Rushing White Water In Background. This is where begins my Flower Photos in YNP

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We Are Entering Gardiner, MT Which Is Located In the Valley Of The Yellowstone River.
….At Left In the Distance, Note Huge Ceremonial Arch. This "Arch Of Triumph" Celebrates Establishment of Yellowstone National Park,
….AND, No Doubt, Celebrates The Tourist Industry That Followed!!.
……The Super STEEP Road We Have Been Traveling On, At One Time Was the ONLY Entrance To Yellowstone National Park.

…. “We decide to stay here for the night.“

Gardiner, MT. Our highway US-89 Enters Gardiner, MT which is nestelled in the Yellowstone River Valley, beside the Yellowstone River: And here the Gardiner River ends by flowing into the Yellowstone River.
….After Gardner, MT, the ZMM Route will fairly closely follow the Yellowstone River, Northwest then North all the way to Livingston, MT. Where-upon it re-joins I-94 to go WEST over The Bridger Mountains via Bozeman Pass. ((Please note => I-94 going EAST essentially follows the Yellowstone River Valley, per next sentence =>
….However, due to The Bridger Mountains and The Big Belt Mountains, The Yellowstone River is forced to go EAST to Miles City, MT and thence to Glendive, MT, near the Montana-North Dakota Border, and ~there flow into the Missouri River.
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We Are In Gardiner, Montana Which Is Located In the Valley Of The Yellowstone River.
….This SOUTH View Looks Back Along The Road We’ve Come, Up the Steep Slope Away From Town.
….The Ceremonial Arch Mentioned In Previous Photo Is Out Of Sight At Right.

….[ “We decide to stay here for the night. “]

Business District, Gardiner, MT.

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We Are In Gardiner, Montana Which Is Located In the Valley Of The Yellowstone River.
….From The Same Location As Previous Photo, This NORTH View Looks Forward Along The Road We’ve Come
….We Can Just Make Out the Yellowstone River Bridge, and
….Afterwards, The Road Slopes Up & Straight Beyond => To The White Buildings of the Hillcrest Cottages Motel

…. “The town is on high banks on either side of a bridge over a river which rushes over smooth and clean boulders. Across the bridge they’ve already turned the lights on at the motel “

Business District, Gardiner, MT. In contrast to the locations of the ZMM Motel in Oaks, ND, and Miles City MT, there is absolutely no doubt as to where is => The ZMM Motel in Gardiner, MT. The 1930’s Style Cabins making up the present day Hillcrest Motel in Gardiner, MT. EXACTLY fit the Narrator’s above statement, as you can see in the /\ Above /\ Photo => Straight “across the bridge“ and on the opposite steep river hillside, there it is!
…ALSO> By my own direct factual observation => The Yellowstone River in this area indeed does “ rushes over smooth and clean boulders“!
….The river here is => Famous for mountain trout fishing, anglers come from around the word to stay for a week at the Hillcrest Motel, and have a “fishing vacation” within ear-shot of the Rushing Yellowstone!!

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Clearly The Hillcrest Cottages Motel Is One of Those Older '30's Cabin Style Motels.
….Click On the Photo For the Largest View & You Will See the Porch Light Is On.
….And Yes, In This Larger View, You Can See There Are Flower Beds Are In Front Of Each Cabin … Where the Guest Must “ Step Carefully ." Around Each One of Them!

….[ “Across the bridge they’ve already turned the lights on at the motel." ] “ where we check in, but even in the artificial light coming from the windows I can see each cabin has been carefully surrounded by planted flowers, and so I step carefully to avoid them."

Gardiner, MT.

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The Hillcrest Motel

…. “I notice things about the cabin too, which I point out to Chris. The windows are all double-hung and sash-weighted.“

Gardiner MT

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Mr. Arthur Bent, Owner of The Hillcrest Cottages Motel, Points Out The Fine Craftsmanship of His Motel.

….[ “ I notice things about the cabin too, " ] “The doors click shut without looseness. All the moldings are perfectly mitered."

Gardiner, MT. Mr. Art Bent shows off the well-made mitered corners of the door.
….You may see a Photo of Mr. Bent’s family in my “Personal Experiences Album” in this Gallery. Click Here And =>AFTER Page Of 9 Small Photos Comes Up, Read & Click On 7th and 8th Small Photos.

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The Hillcrest Cottages Motel At Dusk: We Note the Expert Carpentry of
….Even the Porch Construction, Where Hardly Anybody Can See It!

….[ “All the moldings are perfectly mitered. .“ ] “There’s nothing arty about all this, it’s just well done and, something tells me, is all done by one person.“

Gardiner, MT. This is where our ZMM Travelers spend night 5.
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….You May See Another Photo of The Hillcrest Motel’s Expert Carpentry, in my “Personal Experiences Album” in this Gallery. This has the names of Previous Owners, and the name of First Owners, who directed the work of the carpenters.Click Here And =>AFTER Page Of 9 Small Photos Comes Up, Read & Click On 8th Small Photo.

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Helen’s Restaurant Has Montana Wide, Wild Acclaim, for Great Food!.

…. “When we return to the motel from the restaurant .... "

Gardiner, MT. Ask anyone in Montana where this restaurant is, and they will tell you to try the hamburgers, as they give travel directions and point the way to the /\ Above /\ Photo! …For this reason Helen’s may well have been the ZMM Restaurant in Gardner, MT!!
….My hamburger was huge and delicious!! …. Helen's Restaurant has been the feature article in a number of Montana's Major Newspapers. What better recommendation!! So what are you waiting for? (Google … Helen’s Restaurant Gardner, MT … for More Info & Newspaper Articles.)
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ADDED YNP INFORMATION: Full YNP Information, Map, & Phots At Wikipedia. Click Here.
Yellowstone National Park is the first and oldest national park in the world and covers 3,472 square miles (8,987 km²), mostly in the northwest corner of Wyoming. The park is famous for its various geysers, hot springs, and other geothermal features and is home to grizzly bears and wolves, and free-ranging herds of bison and elk.
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The ZMM Narrator’s “ Carefully Surrounded By Planted Flowers ” Is Continuing To This Day!! =>
….Flowers Blooming, Become, Beacons, Beam, & Beckon From The Landscape At The Hillcrest Cottages Motel.

….[ “ I can see each cabin has been carefully surrounded by planted flowers ……When we return to the motel from the restaurant .... " ]

Gardiner, MT. This Glorious Blooming Yellow Rose Bush is by the entrance drive way. The song name "Yellow Rose of Texas" comes to mind! There were also beautiful and well irrigated beds of flowers in the inclined rock-garden wall, along the highway at the front entrance to the Hillcrest and other places.

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A Table and Chairs for Conversation Are Still To Be Found At The Hillcrest Motel.

….“ .... an elderly couple are sitting in a small garden outside the office enjoying the evening breeze. The man confirms that he’s made all these cabins himself, and is so pleased it’s been noticed that his wife, who sees this, invites us all to sit down."

Gardiner, MT. I tried several times to arrange for Hillcrest Motel owner Mr Arthur Bent and his Wife together in conversation, to pose for a photo illustrating the ZMM Narrator’s passage above. But both were way too busy with immediate pressing demands, to schedule a “Photo Op”.
….But otherwise, both Mr. & Mrs. Bent were very courteous and fully helpful in answering questions for my ZMM Research.
…. Click Here For Hillcrest Cottages WebSite: After their Homepage comes up, you can scroll down to see 5 Beautiful Photos of Their Cabins Inside and Out. . AFTER Their Page Comes Up: At Top And On 5th Photo => You Can Click Dates For Reserve Over Night Accommodations.
…ALSO> You Can Click-On “GALLERY”, To See 14 More Photos.

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Dusk Envelopes The Hillcrest Cottages Motel.

…. “They talk about changes that have taken place over the years, adding a dimension to what we see around us, and it builds to a kind of beautiful thing...this town, this couple and the years that have gone by here."

….Gardiner, MT. These “cabins", now called cottages”, constructed in the early thirties, show the typical Yellowstone National Park Cabin Style Motel. These buildings are just as snug and functional as they were when they were first Expert Crafted in the 30's.
…. Mr. Arthur Bent, in confirming ZMM author Robert Pirsig statements as to the Hillcrest’s high quality construction, stated that all the other original 1930’s motels in this area of the West are long since out of business and gone! He said that these 30’s cabin style motels failed, because of their inadequate quality of construction: They deteriorated to the point where they had to be destroyed.
….By contrast, nearly all of the original buildings of the Hillcrest Motel are still here! This is testament and legacy of Mr. & Mrs. Ritchie, the original owners AND the carpenters who, guided by a contractor, did the original work.
….Mr. and Mrs. Ray Bickles were the second owners, and may have been the persons who talked to our ZMM Riders in 1968. Thus the original owners & carpenter, may NOT have been the persons who talked to the ZMM Narrator. Thus, we see this history is somewhat at variance to statements of the Narrator in ZMM.

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