In the Summer the Sports Shops Have Small Window Displays of Ski Gear, AND There Is a Full Stock Downstairs.

….This Is Because, Not Only Is There Winter Skiing, There is Wonderful SUMMER Skiing At Top Of Beartooth Highway. This Will Be Discussed In A Forthcoming Photo.

…. “ We walk past ski shops and into …. “

Business District Downtown Red Lodge, MT. In this shop I did find a huge stock of winter (and summer) sports gear, including ski equipment, in their lower level basement. My photo of their full sports inventory is placed in Album => “Henry Gurr’s Non-ZMM Experiences. To access, please follow this series of steps =>
…. After this Page of FIVE ALBUMS comes up, Scroll down to Henry Gurr’s Non-ZMM Experiences, Along The ZMM Route => Then Click On Photo, THEN AFTER Page of 9 Small Photos comes up, Click Upper RIGHT on the Double >> Arrows to go to 5th Page of Small photos. THEN Scroll Down To “Ski Merchandise”.

CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PHOTO => SECOND HALF OF RED LODGE HISTORY Which Happens To Be In =>
….A Book Review of A Good & Revealing Book =>
RED LODGE AND THE MYTHIC WEST: COAL MINERS TO COWBOYS. ….. by Bonnie Christensen ….2002 ….. ISBN 978-0-7006-1198-0
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…. “IN SEARCH OF" A PUBLIC IDENTITY: THE CASE OF RED LODGE, MONTANA.” => A BOOK REVIEW BY W. Thomas White.
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....Following the Second World War, Red Lodge fashioned yet a new identity. Grafting the once-denied ethnic diversity onto its Western image, boosters created a public Festival of Nations. Capitalizing on its spectacular scenery and the opening of the Bear Tooth Highway to Yellowstone National Park, opinion makers added a new, scenic appeal for tourists and themselves. Again, at the close of the twentieth century, they joined other locales in the historic preservation movement to resurrect the town's coal mining past. Down came the false storefronts as citizens rehabilitated the structures of the previous century. "By the 1990s," Christensen concludes, "Red Lodge was not only a Wild West rodeo site, an ethnic Festival of Nations community, and nature's town, but it was also a 'historic' mining district" (p. 217), and a viable model for the values and life style commonly associated with small town America.
...This latest public identity, of course, was sanitized. like its predecessors. The ugly slack piles from the mines were removed, class and ethnic tensions blurred, and other gritty realities ignored. "Like the cowboys who no longer lived in town, the immigrants who now seemed so American, and the natural world that had been conquered with a highway, industrial mining could finally be idealized and celebrated and incorporated back into the town's public persona" (pp. 236-237). In the end, generations of residents have chosen and fabricated a whole series of identities for their town. In part they did so to appeal to potential settlers and tourists. In part, too, they simply took what they needed or wanted from their past for themselves and for their collective survival as they adapted to the changing realities of the present.
….This [book] is a fine case study of a small town's search for a public identity. Ms Christensen has researched her book thoroughly and writes engagingly. She is sensitive to the residents' differing perceptions of themselves and their town, and how those notions meshed with the existential realities of life in the Rocky Mountain West. She carefully blends her story with the larger, national culture and shifting popular views of the West in this thoughtful, well-written story.
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The Red Lodge Café, No Doubt, Is The ZMM Restaurant In Red Lodge, MT.
….And Adjacent To Right Is The Red Lodge Café’s => Casino & Lounge,

... “ [We walk past ski shops] and into a restaurant …. “

Downtown Business District Red Lodge, MT. From the Court House the Red Lodge Café is two blocks “up-hill” and on the same side. The address is: 16 South Broadway Ave, Red Lodge, MT 59068 Phone (406) 446-1619.
….This “local down home” restaurant is definitely worth visiting. AND while you really enjoy a good meal, you can enjoy studying the huge framed murals that cover the walls & other “western decorations”, such as carved wooden totem poles.

…. The Culture Trip Dot Com Says =>
Look for the red teepee on Red Lodge’s main drag, and you’ll find Red Lodge Cafe, a local favorite diner. The inside is charmingly decorated with paintings of the gorgeous nearby landscapes, and it’s very homey, projecting an atmosphere that seems not to have changed over the decades. You’ll find all your breakfast favorites, from a breakfast bagel to the Southern classic biscuits and gravy. They bake their own fresh cinnamon rolls, and if you happen to be there while they’re fresh, they’re absolutely unmissable. If you have room for dessert, their milkshakes and homemade pies are also excellent.

…. Trip Advisor Dot Co.za Review Says => One of the first places to open for breakfast. … It was within walking distance to our hotel ( 0.5 miles) and we enjoyed the quiet morning stroll down the street. Our breakfast was good, just the comfort food we needed. Our waitress was quick and efficient, and somewhat friendly... Date of visit: February 2017.

…. Click Here For Trip Advisor Dot Com’s Collection of Photos of Red Lodge Café => AFTER Page Comes up ClickOn => Lower Left ((“All 36 Photos.”)) => To See > 1) Food Plates Served, 2) Views Inside Café, 3) Views Outside Café 4) Views Round Town, & Including Railroad Depo & Water Tank With Spout Over ~A Train.

…. Click Here To See Google Street View’s Own Collection Of Photos. => AFTER Page Comes up ClickOn => The Big Photo’s Lower Center Arrows (( < > )) => To go through some 55 Photos (many of which of course will be similar to my Photos of The Red Lodge Café)
….You will see => 1) Food Plates Served, 2) Views Inside Café, 3) Views Outside Café 4) Views Round Town, 5) The LAST OF THE 55 Photos, will show you the ~”Actual” Google Street View => Where-upon you can => Successively Click-Click-Click = “GSV Drive”, The street you see on your computer screen. You can even click on a Side Street, to “GSV Drive” these Side Streets, ALL around Red Lodge & Beyond !!
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Red Lodge Café Interior View.
….Please Click Photo To Get Largest View & Then =>
……Study The Frame Art On Back Wall AND The Right Wall.

….[ “ We walk past ski shops ] and into a restaurant …. “

Main Street Red Lodge, MT. You see in the /\ Above Photo, on Right Wall, for example, the first two of five huge paintings that form a semi- continuous mural of the Nearby Mountains.


A RoadFood.Com Restaurant Review by Jane & Michael Stern.
….The Red Lodge café is a good reflection of the character of Red Lodge, Montana: eager to please with all modern facilities, yet ingenuous and charming like a mid-20th century tourist stop. The town (once, the home of mountain man Jeremiah Johnson) has been discovered by skiers and tourists heading down through Montana on the scenic route to Yellowstone Park, but it has not been overrun. The town is the real west, and this colorful café serves food to match.
….For breakfast, you’ll want to eat jumbo omelets or blueberry buckwheat pancakes, and sip coffee long enough to eavesdrop on the conversations of locals and passers-through. The lunch menu features such stalwart items as country-fried steak and potatoes and buffalo burgers, as well as some fine deluxe hamburgers. For dessert, everybody has pie: apple or berry pie or, best of all, banana cream pie, which is a tender pillow of pale yellow custard that eats better with a spoon than a fork…..
….The restaurant itself has a western theme [Decoration & Framed Art], but there is something for everyone from morning to night: keno, weekend karaoke, and the strangest-shaped pool table we’ve ever seen. Lighting fixtures above the dining room are made of wagon wheels, the ceiling is stamped tin, and the walls are bedecked with painted wooden totem poles and spectacular murals of scenery along the 11,000-foot Beartooth Highway that leads from here to Yellowstone. The two-lane highway is closed by snow in the winter, but once it’s open, it is a spectacular trip. [The late CBS correspondent] Charles Kuralt once called it “America’s most beautiful road.”-
Click Here To View Current Posted Version Of This Restaurant Review Of Red Lodge Café. And AFTER this Page Comes Up, you will see Big Photo Of => Teepee Shaped Big Sign Over Door Outside. “

You Will ALSO see (In Pop-Up Photo In Blue Link Above) A Banner Saying =>
….Red Lodge has a colorful history: [The town is] home to "Liver-Eatin' " Johnson and also to The First Family Of Rodeo, The Greenoughs.
…The town has more restaurants per capita than any other in Montana!
……..For a true local experience, this is the place !
PS: Red Lodge City ALSO Has A Liver-Eatin’ Johnson Park!!

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Red Lodge Café Interior View.
….Please Click Photo To Get Largest View, & Then =->
……Study The Framed Art On The Right Wall.

….[ “ We walk past ski shops ] and into a restaurant …. “

Downtown Business District Red Lodge, MT. You see in the /\ Above /\ Photo
..1) Portions of 5 Huge Paintings that form a Semi-Continuous Mural Of The Mountain Scenery, that is along the 11,000-foot-high spectacular Beartooth Highway that leads from Red lodge to Yellowstone. This Mural is on South Wall (Right Wall) as you enter The Red lodge Café..
..2) The Mural Paintings are separated with carved wooden totem poles.
..3) The entire ceiling and border are of late 1800’s Victorian painted stamped tin (sheet metal), a portion of which you see above.
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….Please see Next THREE Photos for more of my 2006 much larger & higher resolution photos, the FIRST one of which shows the Opposite North Wall (Left Wall) Decorations Scene.

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Red Lodge Café Interior View.
….Please Click Photo To Get Largest View & Then =>
……Study The Decorations On Right Wall.

….[ “ We walk past ski shops ] and into a restaurant …. “

Downtown Business District Red Lodge, MT. You see in the /\ Above Photo, on North (Left Wall as you enter The Red lodge Café), typical Décor for this Restaurant:
You Should Notice =>
..1) On wall at left of photo: A Native American “Tambourine”, Fringed With Long Feathers.
..2) The Special Wall Mounted Wooden Frame for the Three Mirrors, the top of which is A Very Beefy Strong Shelf..
..3) On the Shelf, notice ~10 Decorative Ceramic Figurines (Like Toby Mugs or Hummel Jugs.)
..4) Above the Figurines, you see Matching Twin X-Shapes=> These are formed with pairs of Wooden Snow Skis!!
..5) The Lighting Fixtures above the dining room are made of wagon wheels!! This is a nice compliment to the other “Western” Decorations !!
..6) The far right shows part of the back wall of the Restaurant with more Framed Art.
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….Please see Next TWO Photos for more of my 2006 much larger & higher resolution photos of the Interior of Red Lodge Café’s => Casino & Lounge, which is adjacent to the South (Right).

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Red Lodge Cafés Casino & Lounge, Interior View.
….Please Click Photo To Get Largest View & Then =>
……At Far Left See Daylight Coming In The Open Front Door Entrance From Broadway (Main) Street, and To Right The Casino Room & Gambling Machines.

….[ “ We walk past ski shops ] and into a restaurant …. “

Downtown Business District Red Lodge, MT. You see in the /\ Above /\ Photo this Restaurant’s Gambling Casino. It shows the typical North American Casino Décor => General darkness and heavy carpet, Fancy hi-priced décor, gambling machines scattered in abundance.
You Should Notice =>
..The New Looking Wood Beams & Post meant to give an “Old Timey” feeling to compliment the other “Western” Décor“ !!
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….Please see Next ONE Photo for the last of my 2006 much larger & higher resolution photos of the Interior of Red Lodge Cafés => Casino & Lounge. => In this second Interior View, the camera has rotated (180 deg) to show the Rear of Casino & Lounge.

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Red Lodge Café’s Casino & Lounge Interior View.
….Please Click Photo To Get Largest View, & Then =->
……See Daylight Coming In The Rear Windows & Rear Door Entrance From A Rear Alley.

….[ “ We walk past ski shops ] and into a restaurant …. “

Downtown Business District Red Lodge, MT. From the Previous Photo of the Interior of Red Lodge Café’s Casino & Lounge => The camera has rotated (180 deg), to show the Rear Area of this Red Lodge Café’s Casino & Lounge, which happens to be a rather typical Montana Bar.
….You see in the /\Above/\ Photo the typical Décor & general darkness of a Montana Bar. I know this b/c I’ve Photographed a lot of e’m in my ZMM Field Research!
Anyway, This “Bar” Is “Different” & You Should Notice =>
..1) A Step-Up to the level of the Bar Floor (see lighted strip at edge of strip), and Grab Handles on wood posts Both Sides of
..2) The New Looking Wood Beams & Post of course meant to give an “Old Timey” feeling to complement the other “Western” Décor“. … BUT ….such “New” is NEVER shown in a NORMAL Montana Bar! … This is because it IS actually new, it will be eventually stained to be “dark”, like all else in a typical Montana Bar!! … Again => I know this b/c I’ve Photographed a lot of e’m in my ZMM Field Research!
….If you know of Bars where this is not true, please email photos: I will post all them to this Photo Album !
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…. To View FOUR MORE Of My Summer 2002 Photos Taken Red Lodge:
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…A) Two Photos Taken Here At The Red Lodge Café showing Wedding Dinner Party … Western Style! … Just Married, a western dude and his bride were honored guests. The groom is a Real Life Cowboy who drives a Stage Coach these days for tourists!
…B) A photo of a ZMM Narrator's Ski Shop, showing a complete stock or winter sports equipment.
…C) A photo of the Red Lodge MT, Candy Store,” According to people in Montana this Candy Store is a "don't miss". This store claims to have "every candy" from "all over the world" !!
…. AFTER this Page of FIVE ALBUMS comes up, Scroll down to “Henry Gurr’s Non-ZMM Experiences Along The ZMM Route” => THEN Click On Photo => Then AFTER this Page of the Page of 9 Small Photos comes up, at top center => Click the Blue 5: You should go to 5th Page of Small photos. THEN Scroll Down To “ZMM Restaurant. Red Lodge”. All 4 of my 2006 Red Lodge Photos should be there.
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In Googling For More Information About …A Statue of Chief Joseph in Red Lodge, Montana…
….By Chance Reveals Where The Red Lodge, MT, GOT ITS NAME.
The following “early days” excerpt is from the well written Montana State University Research Report Re =. Red Lodge Geography & History Of Economic & Social Development
….. “Red Lodge was officially designated a town with the opening of a U.S. Post Office at the junction of Meeteese Trail and Rock Creek on December 9,. 1883, A mud-chinked log cabin, the outpost probably took its name from tales of famous local Crow [Native American] tepee, an unusual buffalo and elk skin lodge swabbed red with clay from the Beartooth foothills. ( NOTE: Wikipedia says => A tipi (also tepee or teepee) and often called a lodge in older English writings … )
And Now We Can Realize (In 5th Photo Previous) =>
….That The Big Outdoor Sign Above Entrance To Red Lodge Café =>
…….Showing A Big Red Teepee, Is Historically Accurately Showing A “Red Lodge” !!!
…. “A Case Study Of Red Lodge, Montana, 1884-1995” by Meredith Nelson Wiltsie. … Click Here For Full Text Report. NOTE =< This will come up on your computer screen, showing “Save-As”: This is a good enough history, that you should actually do the “Save-As”, “Open”, and start reading! : .

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As of 2006, The Giant Color Photograph of Beartooth Highway Was Still There!
….But Sadly Seems To Be Gone From March 29 2021 Internet Found Photos.

…. [ “ …we enter a restaurant] where we see on the walls huge photographs of the route we will take up. ]

This WAS just Inside and At Left of Front Door of Red Lodge Café. Due to too much illumination from the window, my first photographs of this Beartooth Highway Framed Photo were completely washed out.
….Later, I showed the restaurant owner the above ZMM passage. He was very interested in ZMM, and even purchased one of my ZMM copies. Understanding my photograph problem, he offered to change the window blinds for a better photo seen above.
In the /\ Above /\ Photograph (of the Giant Photograph of the Beartooth Highway Framed Photo),
..A) You will see peculiar "light strips": These are caused by the “back-lighting” of four vertical fluorescent lamps.
..B) You will have to "click on this photo to get the largest view”
……Then very closely study this photograph until you make out =>
….1) For the lower left portion, see two levels of twisty road cuts: Looking close, you see the Road Is Paved …. But there are NO Guard Rails !!
….2) At lower right edge, you can also make out, a small part of a loop switchback.
….3) Sloping down, across the upper center you see a major twisty white line. This is the tumbling “white water” of Rock Creek.
….4) One third of the way down the Photo’s Left Edge => You see sloping down a white strip which is a view through a Series Or Tree Branches & Trunks: The white comes from a Strip of Snow, just behind the Trees.
…. The above 1) thru 4) are examples you will see, more clearly, in the NEXT PHOTO, along with details => Who, Where & When of the /\ Above /\ Photo. .

NEW TOPIC => A Small Error In ZMM Book Narrative.
….The above ZMM passage says “ on the walls huge photographs of the route we will take up … .
…However, as you have seen for => The Red Lodge Café's Walls,
..a) There are Huge Paintings of Mountain Scenery: But none these showed “ the route we will take up … . “, and
..2) There is really only one Huge Photograph which does show “ the route we will take up … . “: This is shown in /\ Above /\ Photo.
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Concerning Overall Accuracy Of ZMM Book Travel Narrative.
….After completing my 2002 ZMM Route Research Trip I realized overall that => Robert Pirsig’s ZMM Travel Narrative is Very Factually Accurate, with very few departures from the actual scenery, I was able to find.
….The ~ 6 major exceptions to this, Mr. Pirsig himself has given the reason => At the beginning of ZMM, he says =>
…. Author’s Note
What follows is based on actual occurrences. Although much has been changed for rhetorical purposes, it must be regarded in its essence as fact.
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I believe that Mr. Pirsig’s way to achieve his as fact. , was to be both interesting and very, very, absolutely factual with his travel scenery.
….My research concerning Mr. Pirsig's Travel Narrative demonstrates that he did achieve his own above stated “as fact” criterion: He held his book to "Good old reality."
….To quote Professor Robert Nelson, "[ ZMM Book's ] plot remain consistently responsible to the topography of the physical landscape through which the protagonist moves ."
My (Henry Gurr) Extensive Explanation of “Why Is ZMM So Very Factually Accurate?” & “Six Pirsig Imperatives for Accuracy”... Click Here.
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This Color Photograph Shows Road Cuts of The Historic Beartooth Highway Soon After Completion.
….This Is A Copy Of The “Huge Photo” That Was IN The Red Lodge Café, As Discussed Previous Photo.

…. “ And up and up, over one of the highest paved roads in the world. I feel some anxiety about this, which I realize is irrational and try to get rid of by talking about the road to the others. There’s no way to fall off. No danger to the motorcycle.“
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….In the photo you can see the white painted centerline, thus the road is paved. But evidently, the Beartooth Highway originally was Unpaved and, as you will notice in the photo, had NO guardrail!!
….Thus the Narrator having just viewed the /\ Above /\ Photograph, had much more reason for fright than he let on.

Red Lodge Café, Red Lodge, MT. …. This /\ Above /\ Photograph Was Taken By Brent Egenes Of Flash’s Photography Store.
….I deduce that The then owner of Flash’s Photography Store, who was Mr. Brent Egenes, was the person who took this photograph perhaps as long ago as 1945. The 3 gents whom I interviewed (see previous Red Lodge Café Photo) remember this photo as being in the Café ever since that date.
….NEW TOPIC: At the bottom of the /\ Above /\ Photo =>
You should especially notice what looks like Volcanic Rocks. To me, this adds Interest and Reality to the Resulting Photo, and are indeed ZMM Book “Quality” in action.
….AND, for anyone who actually attempts to find this Photo Camera Location, they should climb till they find such a Volcanic Rock Outcrop!
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…. Mr Brent Egenes’ son, Thomas Egenes, has been the owner of Flashes Photography, which was at 21 S Broadway, Red Lodge, MT. (406) 446-1940. However the store is now closed.

….The NEXT PHOTO is A Topographic Map Showing =>The probable Camera Location from where Mr. Brent Egenes took his 1945 Photo,. Of The Road Cuts of Historic Beartooth Highway.

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A Topographic Map Showing =>
….The Probable Camera Location Of Mr. Brent Egenes’ 1945
……..Photo Of Road Cuts of Historic Beartooth Highway. ….. =>
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....[ …. And up and up, over one of the highest paved roads in the world. I feel some anxiety about this, which I realize is irrational and try to get rid of by talking about the road to the others. There’s no way to fall off. No danger to the motorcycle. ]

Six Switchbacks, Rock Creek Canyon Precipice Edge, Beartooth Highway ~14 Miles South of Red Lodge, MT.
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....The /\ Above /\ Photo Shows a TopoZone.com Map Of Likely Camera Location, Where Mr. Brent Egenes Took His 1945 Photo Of Road Cuts of Historic Beartooth Highway.
VIEWING INSTRUCTION:
..A) Click On /\ Above/\ Photo until you get largest view.
EXPLANATIONS
..B) To the /\ Above/\ Topographic Map have been added Green Lines showing approximately Mr. Egenes’ Camera Location, which is at upper right. You see, Mr Egenes chose a location on the Rock Creek edge, of a relatively flat plateau region. The Three Green Lines, show the Center and Two Sides of the View Field. You might go back and re-study Mr. Egenes’ Photograph, to understand how the Three Green Lines, project to the edges of Mr. Egenes’ Photograph. (( To “go back” to previous => Click Upper Left on “Left Arrow”. ))
..C) In /\ Above/\ Photo, at Lower Left, you see an area labeled “Beartooth Wilderness”. This is surrounded by a Red Border Line that merely is a Boundary, and is NOT showing a Road.
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…FULL INSTRUCTIONS => To See & Study Further => Using An ONLINE Version of TopoZone Map, Of SAME Landscape Area As /\ Above/\ Topographic Map View Photo =>
…. => RIGHT CLICK AND SELECT “NEW TAB” =>
…AFTER Map View Comes Up, You Will See an AWFUL Clutter of Adverts That Are Impossible To Eliminate =>
YOU BEST SHOULD =>
....Use Scroll Bar At Far Right => Adjust Green Topo Map Until Upper Left Until => You SEE-JUST-BELOW The [[Plus & Minus]] => [[Box]] => Do-Mouse-Hover-Over It =>.Shows “Full Screen” => THEN Click On It, and Adverts Will Be GONE. =>
....….Then use [[Plus & Minus]] To Zoom. You can “ClickDrag” Map In Any Direction to See More Off Your Screen Edges.
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…B).The Topozone Map That Comes Up Should Show A Version of the /\ Above/\ Photo, where you see US-212, Zig-Zag Up The Precipice-Side of Rock Creek SW of Red Lodge, MT.
...C) If you see different from B) => Click the [[--]] to Zoom-Out OR [[+]] to Zoom-In, AND THEN => “ClickDrag” Map In Any Direction, until you see center of screen, /\ Above-/\ Photo View. …. At which point, To See More Of What You Want, you can Zoom OR “ClickDrag” Map In Any Direction.
…D) As You USE the above-mentioned ONLINE Version of TopoZone Map, you will see its Lines are Sharper and the Colors of the Road Lines are more vivid => Than the /\ Above-/\ Photo View.
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….Next Photo Shows “A Frightful Place To Look Way, Way, Way, Down, To Rock Creek.

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On Approximately The Fifth Tier, Beartooth Highway, MT.
..AND Standing Beside Quad Creek, A Small Mountain Melt-Water Stream =>
….There Is a Frightful Place To Look Way -- Way – Down!

….[ “ There’s no way to fall off. No danger to the motorcycle. ]
……Just a memory of places where you could throw a stone and it would drop thousands of feet before coming to rest and somehow associating that stone with the cycle and rider. “

At Switchback curving around In The Melt-Water Cut of Quad Creek, Fifth Tier Up, Beartooth Highway, ~14 Miles After Red Lodge, MT. In the /\ Above /\ Photo => Standing on one tier, you are looking way down along the Cut of Quad Creek, and can discern the valley floor and two other tiers way, way, way down. Although being here is terror-ific, there is a doubled-heavy guard-rail that’s nearly continuous, and well maintained. This will not allow that which fear suggests: =>. Going over the edge!

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A) INSTRUCTIONS HOW => TO SEE AN ONLINE TOPO MAP OF THE /\ ABOVE /\ PHOTO LOCATION ALONG THE BEARTOOTH HIGHWAY.
..A) SHORT INSTRUCTIONS => For Using The ONLINE Version of TopoZone Maps.=>
..1) On The BLUE WayPt = Number Below => RIGHT CLICK AND SELECT “NEW TAB” =>
..2) AFTER TopoZone Map Comes Up => Use Scroll Bar At Far Right => Adjust Green Topo Map Until Upper Left => Until you SEE-JUST-BELOW The [[Plus & Minus]] => [[Box]] => Click Go To “Full Screen” =>
..3) Use [[Plus & Minus]] To Zoom. You can “ClickDrag” Map In Any Direction to See More Off Your Screen Edges.
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Suggestions To User: =>
..4) Although TopoZone Maps are a really great resource, they unfortunately do not mark the “WayPt = ” on your screen.
..5) When the TopoZone Map comes up, please know that => The “WayPt = ” is in the EXACT CENTER of your computer Screen.
..6) SUGGESTION => As best you can estimate, place a SMALL ~”Sticky Tag Pointer” to mark screen center.=> Then Click-On => [[Plus & Minus]] => And IF your “Pointer” is CORRECT, it will still mark the same relative place on the Topo Map.
..6) Since this ~”Sticky Tag Pointer” will likely be useful (when you look at a future TopoZone Map), may I suggest you leave it there temporarily.
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TopoZone Maps have been successfully used on my Windows & Linux Computers (on both Firefox & Chrome).
….Please send email re how well this works for you, on other computers/software.
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B) FULL INSTRUCTIONS FOR USING => THE ON-LINE Version of TopoZone Maps =>
….These Instructions, As You Will Remember, Are On The Previous Photo. Right Click and Select New Tab. => AFTER this Page Comes Up, Scroll Down To And Read => “FULL INSTRUCTIONS”.
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NEW TOPIC: A Good GPS Computer APP => When working with GPS Data From Your Camera, Smart Phone, or Handheld GPS Device such as Garmin => You might want use these Two Very Nice TopoGrafix Software Applications installed in your computer. =>
..A) Click Here For Free Computer APP EasyGPS=> AFTER This Page Comes Up, Scroll down to and click on => “Download EasyGPS” NOTE: Installed in your computer => .EasyGPS is very useful for Downloading (and Uploading) GPS Data to (and from), your Devices. It will also show your Waypoints on a Sort Of A Map, which I which I much use => For “Edit Accessing” my GPS Coordinates values for my WayPoints. But .EasyGPS will ONLY show towns or roads, on this Map until after you $ Pay To Subscribe.
..B) Click Here For $ Subscribe To Computer APP ExertGPS=> Their Page Says => “ExpertGPS is the ultimate GPS map software for planning outdoor adventures. View GPS waypoints and tracklogs from any handheld GPS receiver over aerial photos and US topographic maps. Plan your next outdoor adventure over scanned USGS topo maps and send a route directly to your GPS receiver to guide you in the field. View your GPS tracklog over an aerial photo to see exactly where you went. … ExpertGPS handles all your mapping and data-conversion jobs.

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Red Lodge Café Left Interior View

…. “When coffee is finished we put on the heavy clothing, repack and have soon traveled to the first of many switchback turns across the face of the mountain …. ”

Red Lodge. MT. Be sure to study the antique Victorian ceiling and unique display case on the wall.
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Here The ZMM Narrative Moves to =>
….THE ABSOLUTELY SPECTACULAR BEARTOOTH HIGHWAY: ABOUT WHICH WIKIPEDIA REPORTS =>
….“It has been called " ! he most beautiful drive in America," by late CBS correspondent Charles Kuralt.
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[[An Excerpt From A Much Longer Article Titled => A Complete Loop Tour. =>]]
....”A SCENIC MONTANA & WYOMING DRIVE, WINDS THROUGH HISTORY=>
....Climbing To Alpine Lakes And Wildflower Meadows Atop The Highest Mountains In Montana, The Beartooth Highway Is A Spectacular Route To Yellowstone National Park.” .
….”The Beartooth Highway also is [part of this] loop drive through other Montana and Wyoming wildlands steeped in history and beauty. This [varied and wonderland drive] outside-the”-[Yellowstone National] Park Beartooth Loop” can take you from Cody, Wyo.; Cooke City; or Red Lodge over mountains, through Sunlight Basin and along Beartooth foothills….
....… [It is at] “Red Lodge, where the Beartooth Highway begins its westward climb. Built in the Great Depression as a federal WPA project, the highway offered employment to many men who otherwise would have been out of work.
....”The mountain route to Yellowstone [National Park] had long been a dream of some Red Lodge boosters who foresaw that tourism could replace the loss of mining jobs after local coal mines had closed.”
....”A 5-year project.”
....”The 67-mile highway from Red Lodge through Cooke City to [Yellowstone National] Park's Northeast Entrance was constructed in five years, opening in 1936.
....”It zigzags up to Beartooth Pass (elevation 10,947 feet), presenting breathtaking views of the adjoining Beartooth Wilderness.
....”The Beartooth Highway is scheduled to open by Memorial Day in May, but late snows can postpone it.
....”A trip on the Beartooth Highway in the first weeks of the [summer] season is an adventure in snow country [with walls of snow 20 feet high] for travelers who bring warm clothing and are prepared for winter driving conditions. Look for hardy, expert cross-country and downhill skiers along the way.
....”Depending on the weather, the Beartooth wildflower show will peak in mid- to late July or early August. Even above timberline, travelers will see a rainbow carpet of low-growing flowers that survive the harsh climate and short growing season in fragile soils.”
....Click Here For Remainder of Article.

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Back On the Street of Red Lodge.

…. “ …. we put on the heavy clothing, repack and soon have traveled to …. “

Broadway (Main) Street, Red Lodge, MT. The /\ Above /\ Photo is a view half way uphill from the Court House to the Restaurant. The restaurant is on the left and on the oppose side of street is the photography shop and the candy shop.
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, NEW TOPIC:.
…Although the mountain seen in this view seems to dominate when walking the streets in Red Lodge, it dropped completely out of my awareness as I was walking & driving in the downtown and as I drove further South. Also out of my awareness was any perception of the confining bluffs or “both-sides-of-this-Rock Creek Valley”.
…. I’m wondering why? Is this because as one gets nearer to the base of the mountain, it starts to be “just a big hill” partly obscured by the town’s trees? Likewise for the confining bluffs. Either way “the mountain” & “the bluffs” ceased to attract my attention. In fact, all the time I was driving from Laurel towards Red Lodge and even through Red Lodge, I was not very much aware of being in a valley, because I was not paying attention to the rather few views of the Valley Bluffs, on either side of me...
….This Quite Different From My Expectations & Visualizations, In My Earliest Readings Of ZMM. In These Readings =>
….I had always visualized any ZMM discussion of “valley” or “creek”, as being in Quite Narrow and V-Shaped” Valley. This is because the ‘Valleys” I had mostly seen, were when I traveled in the really rugged mountains of West Virginia. In this state, the valley towns are squeeze between-walls! And thus when driving through a West Virginia Valley Town, you see only just: 1) a-creek 2) a highway and 3) a-single-line-of-houses!

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A LAST LOOK NORTH ALONG BROADWAY (MAIN) STREET =>
….WE SEE MANY HISTORIC BUILDINGS OF OLD RED LODGE, MT.
In This Google Street View (GSV) SEE LEFT TO RIGHT. =>
..A) Flashes Photography & Several Historic Buildings.
..B) Broadway Street, Looking North At The Center of Downtown Red Lodge.
..C) An Historic Old Stone Bank Plus Even More Historic Buildings.
..D) A Portion of 12th Street Going East.
..E) At The End Of 12th Street (Unseen To The East) Is Rock Creek.
..F) Beyond Rock Creek See The Valley’s Eastward Confining Bluffs.

Main Drag Red Lodge, MT.
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As Is The Case of Miles City, MT, & Laurel, MT, The Red Lodge Downtown Has Many Old 1890’s Era Buildings => “The Old” Is Still There!
…This is because, since their early ~heyday, these towns have had stable populations and stable economic activity. There has been no “growth”, and thus no money, or need, to “knock down and replace with “modern”! …In Fact, many towns have lived with The Quick & Cheap & Modern, long enough to actually value “The Old & Quaint”.
….AND eventually, really by force of necessity, these towns (and many similar), have learned to value, treasure, honor, & preserve, long into the future, what already exists. They came to see the “The Old & Quaint” as an asset, and thus work hard to preserve and use their Traditional Quaint Old Buildings that have “Character”. It is sincerely hoped that the this continues for Laurel, MT. Miles City, MT. & Red Lodge MT.
…Other Examples =>
…A) Hague, SD.
… The Old, Red Brick Café Building in Hague, ND. Which We Sincerely Hope Will Be Preserved Long Into The Future.
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…B) Miles City, MT.
…. Towns Who Wish To Preserve Their Older Buildings, Would Do Well To Follow The Example of Miles City Historic Preservation Office. Back In ~2002 this effort was led by Ms. Amorette Allison.
The Montana Historical Society Said =>
…. Amorette Allison has played an instrumental part in collecting, archiving, and writing articles, even 7 books on Miles City History. Her passion for Miles City history led her to a job as the Historic Preservation Officer. … She has researched past [Miles City Star Newspaper] editions, oral histories, and general research to write the columns about this town.
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…DATE-LINE: August 17, 2021. by Henry Gurr.
…A) Unfortunately the above article About Ms Amorette Allison & Her Work With Miles City, MT. Preservation, is NO longer available at => //mhs.mt.gov/Portals/11/finduse/docs/bot/HKAN/Allison.pdf. However =>
…B) Under New Leadership, The Miles City Historic Preservation Office WebSite Has A Small Amount Of Information. Click Here.
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….IN SUMMARY: Many towns have lived with “The Quick & Cheap & Modern”, long enough to Now Value “The Old.& Quaint”."
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….As Is Seen Topo Maps, The Town’s Streets In The Downtown Areas of Red Lodge, Are On A Slightly Sloping Valley Land, That Is Planar. ( IE Like a Slightly Sloping Board.)
….This Fits What Seen In /\ Above /\ Photo & Other Photos Of Streets of Red Lodge.
….In addition, you can see in the /\ Above /\ Photo, just how close Rock Creek is to Broadway, and the center of Red Lodge. This is because Rock Creek Valley is here relatively narrow, leaving space only for a Downtown Area that is long and narrow.


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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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....Another Line of Trees Signifies a Stream (Rock Creek) With Recent Mountain Snow-Melt.

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

2.1 miles SouthSouthWest of Red Lodge, MT. The /\ Above /\ Photo shows
..A) The line of trees marking Rock Creek where we are still => “following a creek to its source“. And
..B) Above the tree tops, notice the bluffs that confine the flow of Rock Creek.
..C) See that the Ever Larger The Grey Outline of the Ominous, High, Dark Mountain is no longer “looming directly ahead“ AND
..D) See that the color has changed to Dark Green, showing that the Camera Location Is far closer to this Mountain, with far less Hazy, High Moisture Atmosphere between.
..E) Google Maps says this is Mount Maurice, and the lower peak, next right is Wapiti Mountain.
..F) Even here, this snow melt-water is probably “older” than an hour.
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NEW TOPIC.
…For the US-212 Traveler from Laurel, MT to Red Lodge, MT the whereabouts of Rock Creek is not really much noticed. Thus the full reality of this stream is not really forced upon the traveler, until they are in Red Lodge, MT, where US-212 is right beside the huge, rushing mountain stream. As was seen in Previous Photo, this is Rock Creek running by the highway at a very nice second city park.

….Ahead The US-212 Traveler Will See =>
..1) The Real & Deep Mountain “V”-Shaped Valley that Rock Creek FLOWING WATER has carved out, at which time the perceptive traveler comes to the full reality of this stream as A Full Geological Force!
..2) Even further up this valley we see a change to => The Real & Deep Mountain “U”-Shaped Valley that the ICE GLACIER has carved out, at which time the perceptive traveler becomes to the full reality of this stream as A Much Greater Geological Force!
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To See A Google Street View (GSV) of the /\ Above /\ Photo Scene =>
….You Will See That Google Street View (GSV) Has Many Advantages Since => In Addition To 360 Deg Full Circle Panorama, It Offers Ability To Magnify, and see better Distant Details, Such As What A Sign Says!! RIGHT CLICK AND SELECT “NEW TAB” => After Google Street View (GSV) Comes Up, Then => Click the Google Street View Image WHERE you want the “VIEW” To go. => Thus you can Successively Click-Click-Click = “GSV Drive” The street you see on your computer screen. You can even click on a Side Street to “GSV Drive” along that Side Street !!
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.... A View Looking South => The Valley Is Getting Narrower.
….The Line of Trees at Left Is the only Indicator of the Stream..

Beartooth Highway ~ 5 Miles South of Red Lodge, MT
My notes say: “Now Getting Into the Valley Entrance. Cloudy and colder.” There is no ZMM passage here, because the Narrator leaves out any mention of the scenery prior to the first mountain road switch-backs. Despite this, I thought you should see this and the next two photos of the scenery on the way there. Remember this “valley size” and contrast with that of the valley in the next photo.
….Also, begin to study and remember how the line of trees in an otherwise grassy expanse is the indicator of a major stream, as you see here.

Montana Scenic Byway: Beartooth Highway & The Bear's Tooth. =>
…. [[A Brief History, From Which The Below, Is An Excerpt.]]
Information Concerning =>
...:a) Region: Southern Montana and Northern Wyoming East of Yellowstone National Park
....b) Length: 64 miles.
....c) Endpoints: Red Lodge, MT & Cooke City, MT
....d) Features: A huge plateau above 10,000 feet with alpine lakes, glacier-carved cirques and fragile tundra
....e) Side Activities: Hiking, fishing, 4-wheeling
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....It had been a long August during the summer of 1882. General Phillip Sheridan, famed Civil War veteran, had led his group of over 120 men out of Fort Washakie in western Wyoming at the beginning of the month. By the last week of August, the inspection tour had crossed the Gros Vente Mountains and followed the Snake River into Yellowstone. The area had recently been designated a national park and already tourists had flocked to the area.....
....The General moved his men up the Lamar River on the east side of Yellowstone to a mining camp near Cooke City. Now he faced a three-day march down the Clarks Fork River before turning back north for Billings, Montana, where he would meet the Northern Pacific Railroad to take him to Chicago.....
....An old hunter by the name of Geer approached the General. Geer claimed that he had an intimate knowledge of the Beartooth Mountains which blocked the direct route to Billings, necessitating the circuitous detour down the Clarks Fork. Much against the advice of his comrades, and maybe partly to satisfy a hankering for going where no party had gone before, Sheridan listened and resolved to follow the hunter. Two days later, despite forest fire and snow drifts 40 feet deep in craters, the group completed the first crossing of the Beartooth Mountains, landing near present-day Red Lodge, Montana.
....Fifty years later, in 1936, the Beartooth Highway opened along Sheridan's route. Designated a National Scenic Byway in 1989, the Beartooth has been blessed as "America's most beautiful road" by no less an expert than Charles Kuralt.
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A Mid September 2006 View of Entering Rock Creek Canyon.

~5 Miles south of Red Lodge, MT.

(Excerpt Continued From Previous Photo.)....
....The Beartooth originates in Red Lodge, Montana, which got its start as a coal-mining town shortly after Sheridan's visit. The town boomed during the late 19th century. But the mines began closing in the Depression. Tragedy struck during World War II when an explosion at the Smith Mine killed 74 people, and the mining era was over. Today the town retains much of its character from those early years, with its main street lined with buildings on the National Register of Historic Places. And with skiing on Red Lodge Mountain and summer attractions like the Byway and the nearby Beartooth Wilderness, the town has become a tourist mecca.....
....South of Red Lodge, the road quickly begins ascending the Beartooth Plateau. Between 50 and 60 million years ago, a massive uplift created the Beartooths. At roughly 3,000 square miles, the Beartooths are one of North America's largest land masses rising above 10,000 feet, reaching its highest point at 12,799' Granite Peak. This is a land of glacier-carved cirques, high alpine lakes and fragile tundra.....
....A pull out 20 miles from Red Lodge, up a steep series of switchbacks, is a great place to get a broad view of the Plateau. To the north lie the Hell Roaring and Silver Run plateaus, broad expanses rising between the several forks of Rock Creek. Jewels like Glacier Lake glisten in hanging valleys off the walls of Hell Roaring. Line Creek plateau runs to the south, an area where sharp eyes may spot mountain goats or bighorn sheep.....
....The road continues climbing as it crosses into Wyoming. By now the land is well above timberline. The views are expansive, south across the canyons carved by the Clarks Fork, north into the Absaroka-Beartooth wilderness. In the wilderness, a narrow pyramidal spire is profiled against blue sky. This is the Bear's Tooth - Na Pet Say in the language of the local Crow Indians - from which the mountains take their name.....
....Thirty miles from Red Lodge, the Beartooth reaches is highest point at 10,974 feet. Here you feel like you are truly at the "Top of the World." And shortly after the summit, you pass the Top of the World settlement, a combination store, motel and gas station.....
....Descending, the Beartooths reveal themselves as lake country. Almost a thousand lakes fill the wilderness. Along the road lie Long, Little Bear, Island and Beartooth Lakes. Two of several national forest campgrounds along the highway are beside these last two lakes.....
....While the Beartooth is one of America's greatest drives, it also offer plenty of opportunities for getting out of the car. Trailheads line the entire route. Just out of Red Lodge, roads lead up the various forks of Rock Creek, where trails head for Timberline Lake, Sundance Pass, Silver Run Plateau and other backcountry destinations. Other good jumping off points for short dayhikes or extended backpacks include Island Lake and Beartooth Lake. Most trails head north of the road toward the official Absaroka-Beartooth wilderness. But don't miss the Beartooth Loop National Recreation Trail south of the road. This trail allows a 15 to 20 mile circuit by the original site of Camp Sawtooth, an exclusive retreat built during the 1920s.....
....Clay Butte rises on the right 42 miles from Red Lodge. A dirt road leads a couple of miles to a now-dormant fire tower on top of the Butte. The views here are most spectacular to the west, where the pyramid of Pilot Peak stands stark and the jagged edge of Index Peak cuts the sky.
….,(End Excerpt.) [[Full Original Post of this “A Brief History” Click Here.]]
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