From The Top Of Fox Creek Meadow, Looking Over Fox Creek Canyon, Storm Clouds and Threat of Rain Are Seen.

…. “I’m ready for a nap, but clouds have formed in the canyon that appear ready to drop rain. They’ve filled in the canyon so that we can’t see the bottom and can just barely see the ridge on the other side. .. I break open the packs and get the tent halves out, “

Continued At A Higher Up Flat Spot Knoll, On Side Of A Smaller Canyon Of Cottonwood Canyon, Gallatin National Forest, MT. The /\ Above /\ Photo shows =>
..A) The clouds I observed when I hiked up to in Summer 06. These clouds did actually produce light rain about an hour earlier.
..B) Fox Creek Meadow has been mostly grass, for a very long time. No reason gas been found for why and how this meadow does not grow to dense forest, as is seen all around
..C) As shown on my Hypothetical Climbing Trail Topo Map, the Narrator's Hypothetical Camping Spot, N+C 12, locates in the lowest green trees, at left side of /\ Above /\ Photo.
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….On My Visits Here In Summer2002, And Summer2006, the locations I explored are (also) marked on my previous mentioned Hypothetical Climbing Trail Topo Maps. =>. These are at Way Points 215 thru 226, where I observed a few very small trees, but mostly lots of open grass places, which in turn is consistent with logging, and thus not candidates for Narrator's camp sites.
….This in in contrast to what I saw at WayPts 407 thru 507, which were not very far away from Fox Creek Meadow, but had dense forests. (NOTE: Not all WayPt numbers in these ranges were used!)
….These latter forests looked like the Narrator's forest at his "flat spot, = a large knoll protruding from the side of the mountain.“, as shown in his 1968 Photo, discussed previous photo. ….

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(Photo = September2006 0063 ...... ZMM Page = 201 ...... Photo simulate area near WayPt = N+C 12cont2 7080ft)