TOPO MAP 1 => N+C HYPOTHETICAL CLIMB TRAIL, COTTONWOOD CANYON, GALLATIN NATIONAL FOREST, BOZEMAN, MT.
….The /\ Above /\ Topo Map Photo (& The NEXT THREE Topo Map Photos) Show "ZMM Narrator + Chris Hypothetical Climb Trails "
….These Are Climb Routes Chosen To Fit The ZMM Narrator’s Mountain Climb Route, In the Gallatin National Forest, South of Bozeman, MT.
….From book “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” ( Chapters 16 thru 21). I (Henry Gurr) have used the Narrator’s words as clues, along with knowledge of the forest, to construct a reasonable mountain route that fits the ZMM Mountain Climb Narrative. Although I believe my climb route, shown on these 4 Topo Maps, well fits the ZMM Book => On-Site Field Research still needs to be done to confirm route choices (or find better fits), and then decide upon a final best version of "N+C Hypothetical Climb Trail”.

Please Help In The Search For “A Hypothetical Climb Trail” That Best Fits The ZMM Narrator's Mountain Climbing Narrative.
…..Trail enthusiasts are invited, indeed urged, to volunteer their time and skill to do => On Site Field Checks of trail hypothesis. We can work together! This would be the best way to choose a "Pirsig Pilgrim’s Trail" into the Mountains south of Bozeman, MT
….Trail Enthusiasts who want to do => On-Site-Field Checks should FIRST email me, so I can give full instructions what Research Is Needed and What Equipment Should Be Used. Or If you have any other trail suggestions, or any other information, please communicate: HenryG__USCA.edu … ….Whatever thoughts, ideas, trail observations & trail experience you (and other people) send in, I will post on my WebPage = Blue Link next below. This will be so other Pilgrims may share in Chris and the Narrator’s Mountain Top Victory!
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…. If You Wish To Use A GPS Device (Cell Phone Or Laptop) To Explore My "N+C Hypothetical Climb Trail” (Or Other Places Along ZMM Route) , you may request a computer file which will place my N+C WyPt Numbers into your computer or GPS.

… Click Here For Much Information and Maps On My WebPage => “How To Find the Bozeman Mountain Climbing Route Of Chris And The Narrator In ZMM Book.”
….This page shows all the ZMM Narrator's Trail Clues, and has instructions so you may make your own higher resolution Topo Maps of Gallatin National Forest or other places. These free internet maps (as opposed to my maps) are much clearer and have the ability to "Zoom In" for more detail and resolution.

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Just In Case You Missed This Compact Summary => …. ( A General Introduction For These Above Discussed, Four Topo Maps, For "ZMM Narrator & Chris (N+C) Hypothetical Climb Trail”.

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TOPO MAP 2 => N+C HYPOTHETICAL CLIMB TRAIL, MIDDLE PART, COTTONWOOD CANYON, GALLATIN NATIONAL FOREST, BOZEMAN, MT.
….The /\ Above /\ Topo Map Photo (& The PREVIOUS ONE & NEXT TWO Topo Map Photos) Show "ZMM Narrator + Chris Hypothetical Climb Trails "
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[[…. NOTE: -> For your convenience, the following is a NEAR DUPLICATE of Previous Photo. ]]
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…. Climb Routes Chosen To Illustrate The ZMM Narrator’s Mountain Climb Route In the Gallatin National Forest, South of Bozeman, MT.
….From book “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” ( Chapters 16 thru 21). I (Henry Gurr) have used the Narrator’s words as clues, along with knowledge of the forest, to construct a reasonable mountain route that fits the ZMM Mountain Climb Narrative. Although I believe my climb route, shown on these 4 Topo Maps, well fits the ZMM Book => On Site Field Research still needs to be done, to confirm route choices (or find better fits), and then decide upon a final best version of "N+C Hypothetical Climb Trail”.

Please Help In The Search For “A Hypothetical Climb Trail” That Best Fits The ZMM Narrator's Mountain Climbing Narrative.
…..Trail enthusiasts are invited, indeed urged, to volunteer their time and skill to do => On Site Field Checks of trail hypothesis. We can work together! This would be the best way to choose a "Pirsig Pilgrim’s Trail" into the Mountains south of Bozeman, MT
….Trail Enthusiasts who want to do On Site Field Checks should FIRST email me, so I can give full instructions, what Research Is Needed, and What Equipment Should Be Used. Or If you have any other trail suggestions, or any other information, please communicate: HenryG__USCA.edu … ….Whatever thoughts, ideas, trail observations & trail experience you (and other people) send in, I will post on my WebPage = Blue Link next below. This will be so other Pilgrims may share in Chris and the Narrator’s Mountain Top Victory!
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…. If You Wish To Use A GPS Device (Cell Phone Or Laptop) To Explore My "N+C Hypothetical Climb Trail” (Or Other Places Along ZMM Route) , you may request a computer file which will place my N+C WyPt Numbers into your computer or GPS.

… Click Here For Much Information and Maps On My WebPage => “How To Find the Bozeman Mountain Climbing Route Of Chris And The Narrator In ZMM Book.”
….This page shows all the ZMM Narrator's Trail Clues, and has instructions so you may make your own higher resolution Topo Maps of Gallatin National Forest or other places. These free internet maps (as opposed to my maps) are much clearer and have the ability to "Zoom In" for more detail and resolution.

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Just In Case You Missed This Compact Summary => …. ( A General Introduction For These Above Discussed, Four Topo Maps, For "ZMM Narrator & Chris (N+C) Hypothetical Climb Trail”.

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(Photo = ExpertGPS TopoMapN C ClimbWyPtCtnWoodPart=Capture ...... ZMM Page = 167-231 ...... WayPt =NA )

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TOPO MAP 3 => N+C HYPOTHETICAL CLIMB TRAI, Mt BLACKMORE & ELEPHANT MTN PART, TURN OFF FROM COTTONWOOD CANYON, GALLATIN NATIONAL FOREST, BOZEMAN, MT.
….The /\ Above /\ Topo Map Photo (& The PREVIOUS TWO & NEXT ONE Topo Map Photos) Show "ZMM Narrator + Chris Hypothetical Climb Trails "
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[[…. NOTE: For your convenience, the following is a NEAR DUPLICATE of Previous Photo. ]]
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…. Climb Routes Chosen To Illustrate The ZMM Narrator’s Mountain Climb Route In the Gallatin National Forest, South of Bozeman, MT.
….From book “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” ( Chapters 16 thru 21). I (Henry Gurr) have used the Narrator’s words as clues, along with knowledge of the forest, to construct a reasonable mountain route that fits the ZMM Mountain Climb Narrative. Although I believe my climb route, shown on these 4 Topo Maps, well fits the ZMM Book => On-Site Field Research, still needs to be done to confirm route choices (or find better fits), and then decide upon a final best version of "N+C Hypothetical Climb Trail”.

Please Help In The Search For “A Hypothetical Climb Trail” That Best Fits The ZMM Narrator's Mountain Climbing Narrative.
…..Trail enthusiasts are invited, indeed urged, to volunteer their time and skill to do => On Site Field Checks of trail hypothesis. We can work together! This would be the best way to choose a "Pirsig Pilgrim’s Trail" into the Mountains south of Bozeman, MT
….Trail Enthusiasts who want to do On Site Field Checks should FIRST email me, so I can give full instructions, what Research Is Needed, and What Equipment Should Be Used. Or If you have any other trail suggestions, or any other information, please communicate: HenryG__USCA.edu … ….Whatever thoughts, ideas, trail observations & trail experience you (and other people) send in, I will post on my WebPage = Blue Link next below. This will be so other Pilgrims may share in Chris and the Narrator’s Mountain Top Victory!
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…. If You Wish To Use A GPS Device (Cell Phone Or Laptop) To Explore My "N+C Hypothetical Climb Trail” (Or Other Places Along ZMM Route) , you may request a computer file which will place my N+C WyPt Numbers into your computer or GPS.

… Click Here For Much Information and Maps On My WebPage => “How To Find the Bozeman Mountain Climbing Route Of Chris And The Narrator In ZMM Book.”
….This page shows all the ZMM Narrator's Trail Clues, and has instructions so you may make your own higher resolution Topo Maps of Gallatin National Forest or other places. These free internet maps (as opposed to my maps) are much clearer and have the ability to "Zoom In" for more detail and resolution.

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Just In Case You Missed This Compact Summary => …. ( A General Introduction For These Above Discussed, Four Topo Maps, For "ZMM Narrator & Chris (N+C) Hypothetical Climb Trail”.

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TOPO MAP 4 => N+C HYPOTHETICAL CLIMB TRAI, ON RIDGE TOWARD Mt BLACKMORE PART, TURN OFF FROM COTTONWOOD CANYON, GALLATIN NATIONAL FOREST, BOZEMAN, MT.
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-> NOTE => The /\ Above /\ Topo Map Is A “CLOSE-UP”, So You Can See Details Of Contour Lines Of Ridge, (AND Like The PREVIOUS THREE Topo Map Photos) Shows "ZMM Narrator + Chris Hypothetical Climb Trails "
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[[…. NOTE: For your convenience, the following is a NEAR DUPLICATE of Previous Photo. ]]
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…. Climb Routes, Chosen To Illustrate The ZMM Narrator’s Mountain Climb Route In the Gallatin National Forest, South of Bozeman, MT.
….From book “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” ( Chapters 16 thru 21). I (Henry Gurr) have used the Narrator’s words as clues, along with knowledge of the forest, to construct a reasonable mountain route that fits the ZMM Mountain Climb Narrative. Although I believe my climb route, shown on these 4 Topo Maps, well fits the ZMM Book => On Site Field Research, still needs to be done to confirm route choices (or find better fits), and then decide upon a final best version of "N+C Hypothetical Climb Trail”.

Please Help In The Search For “A Hypothetical Climb Trail” That Best Fits The ZMM Narrator's Mountain Climbing Narrative.
…..Trail enthusiasts are invited, indeed urged, to volunteer their time and skill to do => On Site-Field Checks of trail hypothesis. We can work together! This would be the best way to choose a "Pirsig Pilgrim’s Trail" into the Mountains south of Bozeman, MT
….Trail Enthusiasts who want to do On-Site-Field Checks should FIRST email me, so I can give full instructions, what Research Is Needed, and What Equipment Should Be Used. Or If you have any other trail suggestions, or any other information, please communicate: HenryG__USCA.edu … ….Whatever thoughts, ideas, trail observations & trail experience you (and other people) send in, I will post on my WebPage = Blue Link next below. This will be so other Pilgrims may share in Chris and the Narrator’s Mountain Top Victory!
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…. If You Wish To Use A GPS Device (Cell Phone Or Laptop) To Explore My "N+C Hypothetical Climb Trail” (Or Other Places Along ZMM Route) , you may request a computer file which will place my N+C WyPt Numbers into your computer or GPS.

… Click Here For Much Information and Maps On My WebPage => “How To Find the Bozeman Mountain Climbing Route Of Chris And The Narrator In ZMM Book.”
….This page shows all the ZMM Narrator's Trail Clues, and has instructions so you may make your own higher resolution Topo Maps of Gallatin National Forest or other places. These free internet maps (as opposed to my maps) are much clearer and have the ability to "Zoom In" for more detail and resolution.

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Just In Case You Missed This Compact Summary => …. ( A General Introduction For These Above Discussed, Four Topo Maps, For "ZMM Narrator & Chris (N+C) Hypothetical Climb Trail”.

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On ~17 July 1968 Robert Pirsig and Chris Had to Cross A Raging Stream.
….This Photo Shows What It Might Have Looked Like! Southeast View, Upstream.

…. “ We cross the creek using a rope, which we leave behind, …. “

Hyalite Creek At The Lahore Campground, Gallatin National Forest, MT. Note the several trail location clues.
… I wonder if any remnant of the rope (or hardware) is still there?
……By contrast with my 10 Sept photos of this stream, look how green and lush the summer Gallatin Mountains are! Also note how high the water is!!

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Hyalite Creek, Northwest View Downstream, Towards The West.
….The ZMM Narrator & Chris Hitch A Ride To Bozeman On The Hyalite Canyon Road, Which Is Just Discernible Above The White Camp Trailer And At Far Right Above The Grass.
…This Way They Leave Gallatin National Forest.

…. [“ We cross the creek using a rope, which we leave behind, …. “] “ then on the road beyond find some other campers who give us a ride into town.
….In Bozeman it’s dark and late. "

Hyalite Creek Road and Langhor Campground, Gallatin National Forest, MT By contrast with my previous 10 Sept 06 photos of this stream, look how high the water is!! Also note how green and lush the Summer Gallatin Mountains are!

A MOUNTAIN CLIMB AFTERWORD =>
…Metaphoric AND Fundamental Quality Reasons =>
…. WHY The ZMM Narrator & Chris MUST NEVER REACH =>
…….The High & White & Ideal & Purity Of Snow On The Mountain Top Pinnacle!
….To understand this, we must remember the below statements by the Narrator, as he & Chris were on their way down from the Ridge. The Key Reasons Why The Narrator “No Go To The Snow”, are shown (by Henry Gurr), underlined =>

…. “Now we enter the trees again, and the sight of the mountaintop is obscured by their branches and I’m glad.
....I think we’ve gone as far along Phædrus’ path as we want to go in this Chautauqua too. I want to leave his path now. I’ve given him all due credit for what he thought and said and wrote, and now I want to develop on my own some of the ideas he neglected to pursue. The title of this Chautauqua is "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance," not "Zen and the Art of Mountain Climbing," and there are no motorcycles on the tops of mountains, and in my opinion very little Zen. Zen is the "spirit of the valley," not the mountaintop. The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. Let’s get out of here.”
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…. “ “Feels good to be going down, doesn’t it?" I say.
....No answer.
....We’re going to have a little fight, I’m afraid.
....You go up the mountaintop and all you’re gonna get is a great big heavy stone tablet handed to you with a bunch of rules on it.
....That’s about what happened to him.
....Thought he was a goddamned Messiah.
....Not me, boy. The hours are way too long, and the pay is way too short. Let’s go. Let’s go . . . .
....Soon I’m clomping down the slope in a kind of two-step idiot gallop . . . ga-dump, ga-dump, ga-dump . . . until I hear Chris holler, "SLOW DOWN!" and see he is a couple of hundred yards back through the trees.
....Perhaps he would have gone in the direction I’m now about to go in if this second wave of crystallization, the metaphysical wave, had finally grounded out where I’ll be grounding it out, that is, in the everyday world. I think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life; otherwise forget it.
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Heading North Toward Route 10, the Road Out of Town.

….“The next morning we check out of the hotel feeling refreshed, say goodbye to the DeWeeses, and head north on the open road out of Bozeman. The DeWeeses wanted us to stay, but a peculiar itching to move west and get on with my thoughts has taken over. I want to talk today about a person whom Phædrus never heard of, but whose writings I’ve studied quite extensively in preparation for this Chautauqua. Unlike Phædrus, this man was an international celebrity at thirty-five, a living legend at fifty-eight, whom Bertrand Russell has described as "by general agreement, the most eminent scientific man of his generation." He was an astronomer, a physicist, a mathematician and philosopher all in one. His name was Jules Henri Poincaré.
.... It always seemed incredible to me, and still does, I guess, that Phædrus should have traveled along a line of thought that had never been traveled before. Someone, somewhere, must have thought of all this before, and Phædrus was such a poor scholar it would have been just like him to have duplicated the commonplaces of some famous system of philosophy he hadn’t taken the trouble to look into.“(Cont.next)

Bozeman, MT.
To See A View of The Narrator’s Hotel (Hotel Baxter) on Main Street, Downtown Bozeman, MT. Click Here.
….And indeed, to go West from Bozeman in 1968, it would be appropriate to first “Head North “ on N. 7th Ave, but then after 7th crosses the Rail Road Tracks, it turns to the West to go to Belgrade, MT.
….Many things have changed due to the construction of I-90 in Montana, mostly completed by 1960. I-90 going West from Bozeman, MT either overlaid or skirted the old "ZMM Route” (~US-10), from Bozeman, MT to beyond Butte, MT. (Ditto for the Interstates I-90 going West from Miles City to Bozeman.)
….To experience the old "ZMM Route” West from Bozeman, I recommend that the Pirsig Pilgrim take the frontage roads that may be found along I-90. Out of Bozeman, in many cases, these frontage roads are the actual pavement of the old U.S. Rt 10. To do this from Bozeman, take North 7th Street which eventually angles left into a Frontage Road. This will follow the RR tracks (and parallel to I-90) through the towns of Belgrade, Manhattan, and Logan. After that you will see many frontage roads leading off of I-90 at the interchanges, but most of these are not really a better travel experience, from that of I-90 itself, because they are so close to each other. Consult with local maps to find the best ones.

To Read About Montana Interstate Highway Construction (& Much Discussion Of) How To Find Montana ZMM Routes Near I-90 & I-94,
…. Click Here, and AFTER this Photo Comes Up, Scroll down to => by time of Mr. Pirsig’s Travel.

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Road West From Bozeman.
….The Narrator Takes Up His Discovery of the Most Outstanding Mathematician AND Man of Science Of His Time => Jules Henri Poincaré.

[After the Narrator’s long study in preparation for this Chautauqua:]
…."Eventually I came to Poincaré. Here again there was little duplication “ [of Phaedrus’ ideas] “ but another kind of phenomenon. Phædrus follows a long and tortuous path into the highest abstractions, seems about to come down and then stops. Poincare’ starts with the most basic scientific verities, works up to the same abstractions and then stops. Both trails stop right at each other’s end! There is perfect continuity between them. “
…. [then after ~9 pages on Poincaré’s how to find and know facts, which are our ONLY basis of our reality, the Narrator continues with => ]
….What brought tears of recognition to my eyes was the discovery that these unfinished edges match perfectly in a kind of harmony that both Phædrus and Poincaré talked about, to produce a complete structure of thought capable of uniting the separate languages of Science and Art into one. “

One mile Northwest out of Manhattan, MT.

NEW TOPIC: ZMM ROUTE ROADS AHEAD.
….Back in 1968, the Narrator must have followed Old Rt 10 from Bozeman MT all the way to Missoula MT. Going West after Missoula, there is a stretch of I-90 which has overlaid most of Old Rt 10, except for marginal roads, which can be seen running various places, right along the side of I-90. None of those segments seem to have useful travel roads for the ZMM Traveler.
….In this area of Montana, the Old Rt 10 is now recent day Rt 2. => For the ZMM Route Traveler, the only (Non Interstate) way to go West from Three Forks, MT is Rt 2.
…A) For Google Satellite View Showing Rt 2 From Three Forks, MT To Butte, MT. Click Here.
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Further West, the Narrator’s Old Rt 10-Alt, between Anaconda, MT, and Drummond, MT is now present day Rt 1.
… I speculate that between these towns this was the main route prior to the construction of what became called Rt 10, and after that I-90.
….My 1964 Rand-McNally shows the segment from Drummond, MT to Missoula, MT as Rt-10 and four lanes. Dotted lines indicate imminent construction of I-90. This may have been completed by 1968, forcing (surprise?) the Narrator to follow an Interstate Highway, contrary to his stated policy! Could this stretch of Interstate, be the reason the Narrator does not mention any towns along this Highway, between Hall, MT and Missoula, MT?
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Ahead Is The Town of Three Forks, Montana =>
…As Is the Case Of The Three Mathematical Geometries, =>
…..The Narrator Here (At The Town of Three Forks) Chooses Among
…….The Three Roads (Following Three Respective Rivers), and Thus Follows, =>
………The One Road Along The Jefferson River, Which Goes To Rich, Productive, Fruitful Lands! This Is A (Metaphoric Bridge Connection) To The One Most Productive And Useful Geometry, Namely => The Riemann Geometry, Used In The Theory Of Relativity, That Best Describes The World We Live In. “


….“ It had long been sought in vain, he said [Poincaré], to demonstrate the axiom known as Euclid’s fifth postulate and this search was the start of the crisis. Euclid’s postulate of parallels,
….Finally, in the first quarter of the nineteenth century, and almost at the same time, a Hungarian and a Russian—Bolyai and Lobachevski—established irrefutably that a proof of Euclid’s fifth postulate is impossible. …….
….It wasn’t the proof that was alarming. It was its rational byproduct that soon overshadowed it and almost everything else in the field of mathematics. Mathematics, the cornerstone of scientific certainty, was suddenly uncertain. .
….We now had two contradictory visions of unshakable scientific truth, true for all men of all ages, regardless of their individual preferences……..
….This was the basis of the profound crisis that shattered the scientific complacency of the Gilded Age. How do we know which one of these geometries is right? If there is no basis for distinguishing between them, then you have a total mathematics which admits logical contradictions. ……
….And of course once that door was opened one could hardly expect the number of contradictory systems of unshakable scientific truth to be limited to two. A German named Riemann appeared with another unshakable system of geometry which throws overboard not only Euclid’s postulate, but also the first axiom, which states that only one straight line can pass through two points. Again there is no internal contradiction, only an inconsistency with both Lobachevskian and Euclidian geometries.
.. .. According to the Theory of Relativity, Riemann geometry best describes the world we live in.
.... At Three Forks the road cuts into a narrow canyon of whitish-tan rock, past some Lewis and Clark caves. East of Butte we go up a long hard grade, cross the Continental Divide, then go down into a valley. “

In distance is the town of Three Forks, MT. In ZMM Chapter 22, the Narrator takes up his Chautauqua about " .... an alarmingly deep crisis in the foundations of the exact sciences ... ". As he tells us, that mathematicians had found three contradictory major mathematical geometries, of which only ONE of the THREE (“ Riemann Geometry “ ), has fruitful,/practical, application to our world.
…As this Chautauqua ends ...... sure enough ...... exactly on cue ..... the corresponding route of travel arrives at Three Forks of Three Major Rivers plus a Town also named Three Forks, MT..
…. As ZMM Route approaches the town of Three Forks, it crosses several muddy, swampy, channels of the Madison River, before turning South on combined Rt2 & Rt287.
…. As is the case for the Mathematical Geometries, the ZMM Route takes ONE of the THREE forks , the Jefferson River, up into rich, fruitful, productive "valleys".

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…. RIGHT Click & Select New Tab =>To See A Google Satellite View of Southern Montana, Centered On Town of Three Forks, Montana, plus the 3 Roads & 3 Rivers Close By. AFTER This Satellite View Comes Up, Click At Lower Left, To Zoom-In On the Town, AND Look To Northeast to See The Three Rivers At Headwaters State Park.

…. NEXT PHOTO shows => A Scale Model Of the “Landscape Topology of The Area Of The Three Forks Of The Missouri River”, Showing The “Cut” In The High Mountain Ridge, That Force These Rovers Together! Also with this Next Photo Is => A Link To A Satellite View & A Link To A Topo Map View.
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A VERY INTERESTING SCALE MODEL =>
...Of the Topology of the Three Forks Of The Missouri River.
….At Lower Right => You Can See The “Cut” In The High Mountain Ridge That Forces Channels These Three Rivers Into One Channel!
….To See => A Photo OF This Scale Model, And Its Surrounding Three Rivers Area, Click Here. => The “Three River Headwaters State Park, Three Forks, MT.”

….[[ EXPLANATION => The ZMM Narrator After Long Search, Eventually Discovered => The Famous Mathematician, Julius Henri Poincaré, about whom the ZMM Narrator says => ]] “When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event. Like Robinson Crusoe’s discovery of footprints on the sand. .. “
…. Click Here To Read Full Text of Book =>
…. “ Foundations of Science and … “ by Julius Henri Poincaré.
….This is the book widely quoted from by ZMM Narrator, in ZMM Chapter 22.

At The “Three River Headwaters State Park”, Two miles Northeast of,Three Forks, MT. As is true for all “Tourist Attractions’ this Park Is UN-mentioned in ZMM.
….And, as discussed in Previous Photo & Illustrated in the /\ Above /\ Photo => ~2.5 Miles Northeast of The town of Three Forks, MT, is where these three rivers are forced together into a narrow, steep-banked “Cut” In The Mountain Ridge, to form the Missouri River which then flows North to Helena, MT..
….The Three Rivers are the Jefferson (fm West), the Madison (fm Southeast) and the Gallatin (fm the East).
….Moreover => Three Major Highways travel from here, each following one of the Three River Valleys upstream.
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EXPLANATION OF=> "METAPHORIC-BRIDGE-CONNECTIONS"=>
….This Is a “Bridge” Between The Narrator's Chautauqua (Lecture on Three Geometries) and the Travel Narrative (Descriptions of Three Rivers & Three Forks Town).
….Author Robert Pirsig, Metaphorically Connects these THREE Rivers, TO => The fact that to travel West from Three Forks Area, the ZMM Traveler must choose ONE of the THREE Rivers. This is metaphorically significant to the Narrator, because he, like a 3 Geometries Mathematician, must choose to follow ONE of the THREE => In This case, choose the ONE River, the Jefferson River, to go upstream into the rich, fruitful valleys & mountains, to the West.
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To Learn More About Metaphoric Bridge Connections, Right Click & Open In New Tab To Go To => “Why Is Robert Pirsig’s ZMM So VERY VERY VERY Factually Accurate?” AFTER This Page Comes Up. Scroll Down To and Continue Reading At => “Metaphoric Bridge Connection”.
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Also The NEXT PHOTO Has A Whole Lot More Discussion Re “Poetic/Metaphoric Use Of Town Names”.
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NEW TOPIC:
Unfortunately, The ZMM Route, Coming From The East, Goes Directly Into Three Forks Town, Without Much Allowing The Pirsig Pilgrim To Actually See These Rivers, Or The Place Where They Actually Flow Together, To Form The Missouri River
….This Inability To See => Is Because The Land Is An Entirely Flat, Swampy, Flood Plain => All The Traveler Can See Is A Few Muddy, Small Channels, Meandering Among The High Reeds.
….The two links below show Maps, of a two mile detour, where the traveler can readily see all three rivers, and fully perceive, where and how the three rivers are forced together by a “cut” in a mountain ridge.
….In each link below, you will see where the resulting Missouri River, a railroad, and several power-lines, are forced parallel and close together, to go through a gorge, cut into the great mountain ridge.
….After either of the maps comes up, you may "zoom-in" or slide the map "sideways" to see more.
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..A) RIGHT Click & Select New Tab To See A Google Satellite View (+Explanation), of the 3 Roads & 3 Rivers & Town of Three Forks, Montana =>, Altogether, a VERY INTERESTING PLACE, JUST JAM PACKED WITH GEOGRAPHY!!

..B) RIGHT Click & Select New Tab To See A Topo Map Of The "Three River Headwaters State Park" AFTER Map Comes Up > Immediately Click Upper Left > ON Symbol For FULL SCREEN. Then=> A) Wait about 30 seconds for the loading of the Topo Map to fill your whole screen, AND B) A lot of annoying advertisements, will be gone. AND C) DO NOT Click on the BIG GREEN START .

….SIDE NOTE: When viewing any of the TopoZone Maps => The URL line at your Browser Top, (often) shows the GPS Coordinate Numbers. By carefully changing these Coordinate Numbers, you can view a Topo Map of some other area

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Parker Homestead Features a Sod Roof, Covered With Prairie Grass.

….[“According to the Theory of Relativity, Riemann geometry best describes the world we live in.
.... At Three Forks the road …. cuts into a narrow canyon of whitish-tan rock, past some Lewis and Clark caves. East of Butte we go up a long hard grade, cross the Continental Divide, then go down into a valley. “]

Seven miles Southwest of Three Forks, MT. Although this interesting place is unmentioned by the ZMM Narrator, it nevertheless is worth a stopover. In a very picturesque setting, the Parker Homestead is a park for public visit and a resting place.
….I again traveled the ZMM Route in September of 2006 and decided to take this photo and place here for your interest.
….It is striking how different the color change is due to later in the season. This photo is part of an 8 shot 360 degree panorama, which will be eventually placed up in my ZMMQ Panorama Album.

..A) As The Previous Photo (Re Three forks, MT), Discussed At Length => .where you will often notice in ZMM => The Name Of The Town is used to Metaphorically / Poetically to support the current Chautauqua Lecture. As we eventually learn => This is Mr. Pirsig's stock-in-trade in both ZMM and Lila.
….In addition, Author Robert Pirsig has added into the ZMM Travel Narrative, what in ZMM Gallery Photos is called, => ”Metaphoric Bridge-Connections." At first, I was slow to catch on to these! It took me about 4 readings of ZMM before I finally said,=> "Hey, what is Pirsig doing here?" I started to watch for these "Connections" and was amazed to note that => At every abrupt switch between Chautauqua, and the Travel Narrative Description, this Connection" was ALWAYS there! This eventually led me to newly define the idea of "Metaphoric-Bridge-Connections".
….Many of the more outstanding examples of Mr Pirsig’s ”Metaphoric Bridge-Connections.", are discussed in many ZMMQ Gallery Photos. In such photos, along with my photo explanations, I point out these “Poetic / Metaphoric Bridge Connections” such as the following examples, that involve the use of a Town's NAME, as you see next =>
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EXAMPLES OF THE ZMM NARRATOR’S METAPHORIC USE OF TOWN NAMES =>
..A) Marmarth, ND, Hot, Tortured, Dry, Damaged, Muddy, Marred Notice how the town’s atmosphere and evident town abandonment, fit the Narrator’s description of the surrounding harsh terrain and the “death-birth continuity” of ZMM passage. Even the town name Marmarth, like that of Herreid, poetically suggests an awful place.
..B) "Baker, ND, Everything Is So Baking Hot! “At Baker,, where we stop, the thermometers are reading 108 degrees in the shade. When I take my gloves off, the metal of the gas tank is so hot I can’t touch it. The engine is making ominous knick-knicking sounds from overheating. Very bad. The rear tire has worn badly too, and I feel with my hand that it’s almost as hot as the gas tank. “
..C) Herreid, SD, Everything Is Horrid.
A Dangerous High Speed Truck Route Passes Through A Town Name Herreid, SD. Which (As Seen ZMM Passage), ZMM Author Pirsig Poetically Applies As “So Very Horrible” Herreid!

..D) Lemmon, ND, Everything Is Sour.
….By the time we reach Lemmon, we are really aching tired. At a bar we hear about a campground to the south. John wants to camp in a park in the middle of Lemmon, a comment that sounds strange and angers Chris greatly.“
..E) Prineville Junction, OR, Everything Is Prinnie, Pruny, Prickly Bad .
…. We arrive in Prineville Junction with only a few hours of daylight left.
... am so tired I go around in back and sit on the yellow-painted cement curb with my feet in the gravel and the last rays of the sun flaring through the trees into my eyes. Chris comes and sits down too, and we don’t say anything, but this is the worst depression yet. All that talk about gumption traps and I fall right into one myself. ….Fatigue maybe. We’ve got to get some sleep.
….I watch the cars go by for a while on the highway. Something lonely about them. Not lonely—worse. Nothing. Like the attendant’s expression when he filled the tank. Nothing. A nothing curb, by some nothing gravel, at a nothing intersection, going nowhere.”

.F) Also Good Metaphoric Candidates Are The Towns of => White Bird, ID, and New Meadows, ID.
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….SIDE NOTE:
….The above are good examples of how Author Pirsig, uses Town Names Poetically & Metaphorically, to reflect upon BOTH the Travel Narrative & Chautauqua Topics at hand. … And in my ZMMQ Gallery Photos, such as you are looking at right now, this usage is many times pointed out and discussed with the photo.
….However, most of my ZMMQ Gallery Photos were posted long before the NAME => ”Metaphoric Bridge-Connections" had been invented. And o/c is the reason you can’t use the MBC Words to Google for these examples.
… Additionally, you the reader (having read this discussion) now will have to supply the MBC idea, whenever there is => An abrupt switch between Chautauqua, and the Travel Narrative Description,.
....If you notice other examples, please send an Email, telling what you have found. ************** .

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Photo Opens With A View North, Looking Landscape Beyond Montana Highway Rt-2, Which Follows At The Jefferson River Valley from Three Forks, MT. Remember The Yellow Flowers By The Pavement, Then Click Photo Several Times To Get Largest View, And

The /\ Above /\ Photo Shows Scenery Along The ZMM Route, In A Wide, Somewhat Flat Valley, Just Prior To Entering A Very Steep Walled, Narrow Canyon, Possibly Having Whitewater Rapids.
….Starting With A View North: ClickDrag Bar and Gradually Scroll This Panorama To The Far Right, And Now You are Looking East, Back Towards Three Forks, MT.
……NOW => Look Closely And You Can See The Wee Tiny Highway Way, Way, Tiny, Into The Distance, At The Lowest Place In The Horizon, Indicating The Valley Location. AND Slightly To The Right, Somewhat Larger, Is The Jefferson River.
………AND BELOW LEFT OF => The Tiny Distant Tiny Highway & Tiny River, You Can Dscern a) A Closer River Portion With Still Water River Surface, & b) Railroad Tracks Curving Along Below The Grove of River Edge Trees.
………The Railroad Tracks, Continue To The Right Edge, Where Above Them, Can See Considerably More Calm Surface River Water.
….Please Know That Much Of Montana Looks Like The Above Photo Showing => Rounded Green Grass Covered Hills & Small Mountains, .

….[“, …. According to the Theory of Relativity, Riemann geometry best describes the world we live in. ”]
…..“.At Three Forks the road cuts into a narrow canyon of whitish-tan rock, past some Lewis and Clark caves. ”....

Along The Jefferson River, Approaching “. A Narrow Canyon Of Whitish-Tan Rock ” ~2 Miles SE Of, Jefferson Island, MT. NOTE: Location is not the ZMM Narrator’s.“.At Three Forks . ”, but some 24 straight line miles West & a bit south., .]]
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Where Are Whitewater Or Rapids Along The Jefferson River?
….A forthcoming photo shows and discusses a Montana Historical Marker, which gives Important Evidence That => The Lewis and Clark Expedition navigated this part of the Jefferson River ~August 1. 1805 on its way to find a “Northwest Passage” further West.
….This Marker, only 1.2 miles upstream from the /\ Above /\ Photo Location, also said the Expedition Crew => Exerted great effort, at great peril, to bring their boats up the river rapids, and indicated the rapids were not too much further downstream, from the Marker location.
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...A) For An Excellent History Discussion of The Lewis and Clark Expedition, With Emphasis On Expedition Navigation of the Jefferson River, Click Here. AFTER This Page Comes up, To Read About Rapids > Do > Top > Edit > Find > rapids Then Repeat for struggling
...B) For An Excellent Discussion, With Many Photos, Click Here To Read => “The Jefferson River Canoe Trail” This Page Tells What It Is Like To Navigate Boats On The Jefferson River,.
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...C) On the Jefferson River, the most likely places for rapids are at the Narrator’s => the road cuts into a narrow canyon of whitish-tan rock, . This is because the river there has a deep, especially-narrow-cut, through extra hard rock of a small mountain ridge, as may be discerned in a Satellite View, Blue Link Next Below.
…. RIGHT Click & Select New Tab To See A Google Satellite View, where the location of Red Pinpoint, marks one of the Jefferson River’s the deeper-narrow-cut-throughs in this mountain ridge. AFTER this Satellite View comes up, use ClickDrag to study the Mountain Ridge further East. Then you may “Zoom-In” To see the Closest Clear Image, to study the River bottom, and look for most likely places for rapids.
….The /\ Above /\ and NEXT 7 Photos were taken at a location 3300 feet NW of the Above-mentioned Satellite View Red Pinpoint Marker. By happenstancd there is a An Oval Rt-2 Marker, at this photo location, in the Knowing this, will help you know where are significant landscape features, surrounding these 8 photos.
For Examples, Please Notice The Satellite View, Shows =>
…1) At Upper Left => Jefferson Island, MT, where Rt-2 junction at Rt-359.
.. .2) Upper Right Of Jefferson Island, MT, By Rt-2 e=> Lahood Pard. .
…3) At Right Of Center => Lewis & Clark Caverns.
…4) Further Right Of Center => Lewis & Clark Caverns State Park, Area Of Land.
…5) Lower Right => The Campground For => Lewis & Clark Caverns State Park.
…6) Notice That The Mountains change to Irrigated Level Valleys along R-359.
….7_ Notice that Rt-2 continues North to I-90, where the ZMM Route turns West to travel to Missoula, MT.
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…NOTE1: a) The Jefferson River flow is greatest during a 4-6 week snow melt-off, about mid-May to mid-June. b) One Fishing WebPage says of this river => “The current is usually slow, and irrigation can literally takes a heavy toll on water levels [especially] during drought periods.“ c) My (Henry Gurr) Photos are about June 24, and thus are well after the higher river flows. d) The Lewis and Clark Expedition, the first several days of August 1805, would have seen the river at its lower flow. But the river flow they experienced, could have been considerably greater than the present day, because of no irrigation back then.

…NOTE2: WayPt = 235w is the location of the 5th & 6th Photos Next. These two photos show the deepest, near vertical walls of the canyon.
…NOTE3:For he Satellite View (of the Above Blue Link) => What is at ground level for the location of Red Pinpoint, marking the Jefferson River’s the deepest-narrow-cut-throughs in this mountain ridge => Is FURTHER EXPLAINED in GREAT DETAIL in the FIFTH Photo NEXT. ..****************..
Where Can We Observe Whitewater Or Rapids, Along The Jefferson River?
….My ZMM Field Research along the Jefferson River, was done before I knew river rapids were important: Thus my 8 photos, including the /\ Above/\ Photo, were taken without any attempt to show rapids. What river water my photos do show, by happenstance, shows calm water, except for my 2 photos taken within the “Very Steep Walled, Narrow Canyon”, which are the 5th & 6th next Photos.
….But here, what appears as possibly rapids, may be simply due to the sharp curve of the river making disturbed surface, rather than show a river water speed where are found true rapids. In fact, in photo 6th Next, the water surface shows NO rapids, but only looks slightly disturbed by light wind.
.…. In a Satellite View, One of The Better Places Where Is Seen The “Slight Streaky Whiteness” of Whitewater, and Thus Evidence Of Lewis & Clark’s Difficult Rapids => Seen Above Word “Google’ At Bottom Center. Click Here. This particular place in the river is especially narrow water, AND a more than ever, sharp turn!
….CAUTION: In this Satellite View, Sand or Sandbars are White Or Whitish. The Whiteness that shows rapids happens to appear as Greenish Whiteness. You will have to study this closely and carefully to See And Understand What You See!!
Elevation Data For The River Might Be Used To Find Rapids, Because Rapids Are Where There Are The Largest Drops In The River Level.
….To Study Elevation, use the WebSite Called “ElevationFinder”, or use Topographic (Topo) Maps.
….I have spent some time studying the Elevation Contour Lines of the Blue Link below, only to find it is very difficult to see, where Contour Lines cross the Jefferson River, even where I think the river is the steepest. This TopoZone Map Will Come Up Showing (At Center) The Same Location As Above Google Satellite View. The only contour line river crossing I can see is > Lower Left of where it says “Lewis and Clark Caverns State Park.”, at the river, where there is an “A” in the word MADISON CO. This is not enough info to find rapids.
….Alternately, use Google Maps, Upper Left > Click Three Horizontal Bars > Click Terrain. As you will see, this also shows Contour Lines. But contour line river crossings are even harder to see..


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Photo Opens With A View South, Looking At The Jefferson River And The Valley Landscape Beyond: Click Photo Several Times To Get Largest View, And Then At Left Look Very Closely, You See A “Still Water” River Surface.

Same Camera Location As Previous Photo =>
…Photo Starts With A View South, Looking At The Jefferson River And The Valley Landscape Beyond:
…..ClickDrag Bar, Gradually Scroll This Panorama, To The Far Right. Now You Are Looking West, Away From Three Forks, MT And Towards Up River.
……At Right Photo Edge, You Can See A Tiny Bit Of The Highway, And ALSO Flowers. These Flowrs Should Remind You Of The Highway Edge Flowers, Seen In The Previous Panorama.

….[the road] [“ …. cuts into a narrow canyon of whitish-tan rock, past some Lewis and Clark caves. … “]

Along The Jefferson River, Approaching “. A Narrow Canyon Of Whitish-Tan Rock ” ~2 Miles SE Of, Jefferson Island, MT. ..
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SIDE NOTE => In ZMM, After Typically ~2.5 Pages of Chautauqua Discussion, The ZMM Narrator Will Make An Abrupt Switch FROM Chautauqua Discussion TO The Travel Narrative Description: And When This Happens, Author Robert Pirsig Will Write Into ZMM =>
….Travel Narrative Details Such As The Travelers’ Arrival At The Next Named Town + Some New Scenery. AND nearly Always, Author Pirsig “Works In”, Poetic/Metaphoric Bridge Connections , Between 1) The Travel Narrative Description, and 2) The Travel Narrative Descriptions, As Has Been Discussed In Previous Photos.
….This is because he discovers and works into the story => How the travel conditions relate metaphorically / poetically to the current Chautauqua Lecture.
….However, in the travel from Three Forks, MT to Hall, MT apparently no such “connections” were found or invented by the Narrator. Although there may be other additional reasons, the Narrator mentions no town name here in the Jefferson Island area. Perhaps the Poincaré topic is too important to withstand an interruption for scenery or anything else.
….There must be powerful reasons, because after Hall, MT, the Narrator again (in continuing the Poincare’ Chautauqua) fails to mention when he and Chris get back on the highway. To my recollection, this is the only place where this kind of “story discontinuity” takes place.
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…NOTE: The FOURTH Next Photo Showing => “A High Walled Canyon Near, Jefferson Island, MT”. =>, Has A Link To => A Google Satellite View that is CLOSER-IN on this photo location (Red Pinpoint) where => “The Canyon Is So Narrow, the Road Is Jam Tight Against The High Cliff”. This is on Rt-2 , by Jefferson River near Jefferson Island, MT. This photo hasadditional extensive explanations. What You Need To Know around this area of the Jefferson River.
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A Note To Prepare The Reader (You) For The Next 23 Photos To Come:
….Just prior to Three Forks, MT, the Narrator, after introducing Poincaré, finishes his 4.5 page Chautauqua on the Three Geometries. Then, per normal practice before he returns to Poincaré, he introduces a half page of Travel Narrative Scenery,which follows the ZMM Passage Italic above =>
…“ East of Butte we go up a long hard grade, cross the Continental Divide, then go down into a valley. Later we pass the great stack of the Anaconda smelter, turn into the town of Anaconda and find a good restaurant with steak and coffee. We go up a long grade that leads to a lake surrounded by pine forests and past some fishermen who push a small boat into the water. Then the road winds down again through the pine forest, and I see by the angle of the sun that the morning is almost ended.
....We pass through Phillipsburg and are off into valley meadows. The head wind becomes more gusty here, so I slow down to fifty-five to lessen it a little. We go through Maxville and by the time we reach Hall are badly in need of a rest. “..
….But this ZMM Narrative is anything but normal! As you will see in next 24 Photos =>
…This half page of ZMM Travel narrative, encompasses => An immense range of scenery, ten towns, 110 miles of travel.
….For me (Henry Gurr ZMM Route Researcher), this ZMM half page, used 8 hours travel & research, during which I took 65 photos and 12 pages of paper notes single spaced.
….I won’t tell you how long it takes me get this same part of my research trip, prepared and uploaded to ZMMQ Gallery, but it well exceeds by five, my corresponding road travel time!
….All of this the Narrator covers in a half page of text!!!
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SIDE NOTE:

…. The Previous Photo, The /\ Above /\ Photo and the Next Photos (Each A Stitched Composite of 3 Individual Photos) are all taken at the Same Place along The Jefferson River, which here by happenstance is Flowing East toward Three Forks, MT. . … But Please Remember that the Subsequent 2 Photos showing the ”Canyon Is So Narrow, the Road Is Jam Tight Against The High Cliff”, The river there is flowing ~South.
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Photo Opens With A View Southwest, Looking At The Jefferson River Valley Landscape: … Click Photo Several Times To Get Largest View.
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Same Camera Location As Previous Photo =>
….Continuing From Previous Panorama, The Jefferson River Is (At Far Left), Out Of View. AND
…. The Camera At First, Is Looking Southwest, Then Swings To West, Away From Three Forks, MT.
….With ClickDrag Bar, Gradually Scroll This Panorama, So The Yellow Flowers Are Mid Screen, and Above the Flowers You See A “V” Between The Mountains, At Which Point => You Are Looking West At The Landscape “Up River”.
….AND The “V” Between The Mountains, Is The ZMM Narrator’s, [Where he road] “ ….cuts into a narrow canyon of whitish-tan rock … “. This Is Because => The “V” Between The Mountains, Is Where The Jefferson River’s Has “Deep-Cut Through” A Magor Mountain Ridge.
……Additionally, To The Right Of The “V”, Nested In The Clump OF Trees …. Sure Enough …. There It Is! …. Exactly The ZMM Narrator’s ~”Brown Sign For Lewis and Clark Caves State Park” !
…….Continued ClickDrag Bar To Right Edge of Photo … You Are Looking North, And Will Recognize The Flowers & Highway Of Previous Photo, and SECOND Previous Photo.

……..SUMMARY: These Are More Facts, That All Exactly Fit The ZMM Narrative! (As In The Italics Below.)


[The road] “ ….cuts into a narrow canyon of whitish-tan rock, past some Lewis and Clark caves. “

Along The Jefferson River, Approaching “. A Narrow Canyon Of Whitish-Tan Rock ” ~2 Miles SE Of, Jefferson Island, MT. NOTE: Location is not the ZMM Narrator’s.“.At Three Forks . ”, but some 24 straight line miles West & a bit south.,

.... After leaving Three Forks, MT, my paper research notes say } “Cross Jefferson River, and see Junction Rt-287, and start looking for Rt-2. Turn on it, and following upstream this one of three rivers, = The Jefferson”. Later my paper research notes say that I see at this photo location = “A rodeo corral, huge salvaged bridge truss, and Lewis and Clark Caves sign, and ahead, I see the gap where I will be entering (as the river does) the narrow canyon through the mountain ridge.”

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….The /\ Above /\ Photo Introduces A Geological River Pattern, That You Will See Happens Repeatedly In Montana
….AND Somewhat Happens Here In The Jefferson River.
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….When Traveling A Long Road, Along A River, Downstream.
.. The river valley traveled, is at first, a terrace which is level and relatively wide, with the river a meandering still water. Ahead you can see the valley land is narrowing, then ends with the road and the river is now descending, in a narrower canyon, with rapids. Where the canyon is narrow, the river & road are relatively rapidly descending, and thus wind down the canyon, until both begin to level out. At this point, they emerge into another level and relatively wide valley land, much like the previous, with the river a meandering still water river!
The Geology Cause?
….It seems that the level, wide valley land, is held that way, against the river erosion, by relatively harder, more durable rock ridge (or rock layer), the drop-down edge of which is called a “Nickpoint”.
….This harder rock is preventing the land from eroding down to the same level as the lower, wide, flat valley terrace next below. Saying it differently, this strong rock has kept the upstream valley land level, and all its beautiful fertile farming, just the way it is.
To See Rather Good Example of This, With Full Discussion & Photos, Click Here
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….And Come To Think Of It => What Happens With The Three Rivers, After Three Forks, MT, Is Also A Rather Grand Example Of This!
….These rivers at first are meandering still water, then the valley is narrowing, with the three rivers now forced into one. This is followed by a narrow, deep, steep walled canyon, that is descending in white water rapids.
NEW TOPIC2:
….Because Both Author Robert Pirsig & The ZMM Narrator Hate & Despise “Tourist Attractions”, There Is Absolutely No Hint In ZMM, That => There Is Anything Interesting In Or About These “Lewis & Clark Caves”!
….But the actual Facts are Quite the Opposite!!! Click Here For Wikipedia, Which Has A Great Photo of Stalagmite Limestone Formations Inside The Cavern.
LEWIS & CLARK CAVERNS STATE PARK.
….Discover one of the most highly decorated limestone caverns in North America. … Camp, hike and experience amazing geologic wonders at Montana's first and best-known state park.
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Entering The Narrow Part Of The Canyon, A View West.
….The River, the Railroad, The Highway, And A Gravel Road (On Mountain Slope), All Share The Same Narrow Gap!
….At The Right Edge, You See Two Cycles & Riders, Plus My Car, Parked Mostly Out Or Camera View. Below My Car, See The Brown Railroad Tracks With Gravel Bed..
….Just Left of Center, Notice The Unusual, Lone, Large Tree, That Amazingly Can Be Identified As A Dark Spot, In A Satellite View! => See Link & Explanation SECOND Photo Next.

…[a narrow canyon].[“ of whitish-tan rock, …. “]

Along The Jefferson River, Closer To => “. A Narrow Canyon Of Whitish-Tan Rock ” ~2 Miles SE Of, Jefferson Island, MT. NOTE: Location is not the ZMM Narrator’s.“.At Three Forks . ”, but some 24 straight line miles West & a bit south.,
....In the /\ Above /\ Photo, at Left Edge, you can see the Still Water River Surface.
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Photo Opens With A View East, Looking At The Jefferson River Valley Landscape : Click Photo Several Times To Get Largest View.

Same Camera Location As Previous Photo =>
….A View East, Back Towards Three Forks.

…. [a narrow canyon].[“ of whitish-tan rock, …. “]

Along The Jefferson River, Closer To => “. A Narrow Canyon Of Whitish-Tan Rock ” ~2 Miles SE Of, Jefferson Island, MT. .... Whereas my previous 4 Photos of the Jefferson River Valley, mostly show grassy slopes, and some places rather black looking rocks.
….But by contrast with my other photos => The /\ Above /\ Photo, in the slopes of the Mountains on both sides, are where you can in fact see the tan rock layers of the Narrator’s => “ whitish-tan rock. “ These tan rock layers will ALSO be seen and discussed, in the SECOND Photo Next.
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SIDE NOTE:
… On the FIFTH Previous Photo Showing The Parker Homestead, I discussed the Narrator's use of Poetic Connections, there called my ”Metaphoric Bridge-Connections.". This raises the question: So how does the Narrator find these poetic connections between Chautauqua Lecture and Travel Narrative of Local Scenery?
….Clearly, it is a property of Author Robert Pirsig’s wide experience and a very active mind. Some may come from memory or spontaneous inspiration while he travels.
….I’m convinced that many of the connections (especially when prompted by catchy/poetic town names) come from the narrator’s repeated consultation with maps, while he traveled and while he wrote ZMM.
….In many cases, Topographic (Topo) Maps were consulted. (See ZMM p 21, 36.) When a “poetic / metaphoric idea came along, perhaps he wrote these into his 1968 travel notes, or marked them on his map, that he had open on his cycle gas tank.
….Several places in ZMM, he says he consults his map on the cycle gas tank as he is in motion. Some place he says the map is open to the current segment of read and strapped onto the gas tank of his cycle.

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The Canyon Is So Narrow, the Road Is Jammed Tight Against The High Cliff .
….In The Distance, Look Closely To See 5 Cycles Coming This Way, AND Below The Cycles Brown Railroad Tracks Can Be Seen.
…. The River Water Surface Looks Disturbed. But This May Be Due To The Sharp Curve Of The River, Rather Than Showing A Place Where True Rapids Are Found.

….[ “ …. canyon of whitish-tan rock, …. “ ]

Along The Jefferson River, In The ZMM Narrator’s => [High Walled] “. A Narrow Canyon Of Whitish-Tan Rock ” ~2 Miles SE Of, Jefferson Island, MT. . NOTE: Location is not the ZMM Narrator’s.“.At Three Forks . ”, but some 24 straight line miles West & a bit south.,


…. RIGHT Click & Select New Tab To See A Google Satellite View Of The Location Of The /\ Above /\ Photo. This Will Help You Know WHERE Are located Significant Landscape Features, Discussed In The 8 Photos Hereabouts In This Album. AFTER This Satellite View Comes Up, Please Notice =>
..A) Upper Left Jefferson Island, MT, and LaHood, MT and
..B) The White Rt-2 Highway Markers, which mark the road from Three Forks, MT (at right off Satellite View), and from there, follow the Jefferson River. ((With the exception that, the Line for Rt-2 LEAVES the Jefferson River Valley (look closely) going North from LaHood, MT.))
.,C) Red Pinpoint marks Location of /\ Above /\ Photos, taken at WayPt = 235
..D) Zoom-In and then ClickDrag View up until you see the South-most curve of the river. Above the river, and by the highway, you see a Dark Spot. This is the Unusual, Lone, Large Tree mentioned, and seen in my SECOND Previous Photo ( = 109-0931 + 109-0932sc).
..E) The Tree of D) above, marks a bit further West from where my previously seen 3 photos were taken at WayPt = 232.
..F) At center right, Lewis and Clark Caverns State Park.
..G) North of Jefferson Island, MT, see where Rt-2 runs by I-90. Zoom-In, ClickDrag, and look closely to see I-90 has bridges over a river. This is the North Boulder River, which is mentioned in The Lewis & Clark Historical Marker Sign, SECOND Photo Next.
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Same Camera Location As Previous Photo =>
…A View Back Towards Three Forks.
…..The Canyon Is So Narrow, the Road Is Jam Tight Against The High Cliff.
….…The River Water Surface Looks Disturbed. But This Appearance Looks More Like Effect Of Wind On Calm Water, Rather Than Showing The Effect Of True Rapids.



…[.“ …. canyon of whitish-tan rock, …. “ ]

Along The Jefferson River, In The ZMM Narrator’s => [High Walled] “. A Narrow Canyon Of Whitish-Tan Rock ” ~2 Miles SE Of, Jefferson Island, MT. NOTE: Location is not the ZMM Narrator’s.“.At Three Forks . ”, but some 24 straight line miles West & a bit south.,
.... As was discussed in the SECOND Previous Photo => My 8 Photos of the Jefferson River, mostly show grassy slopes, or rather black looking rocks.
…By contrast in the /\ Above /\ Photo, in the slope of the mountains at right, is where you see the tan rock layers of the Narrator’s => “ whitish-tan rock “.

Right Click & Open In New Tab To View Series Of 3 Photos of Swallows (Birds), That Have Their Nests High Up On The Cliff Face Of /\ Above /\ Photo. These 3 Photos, Are Taken From Base Of The Above-Mentioned Cliff, At Pavement Edge WayPt = 235w
….PHOTO VIEWING NOTE FOR THREE PHOTOS OF SWALLOWS. :
..A) The above-mentioned Photo of Swallows should come up with ”Full=1”, meaning already largest size. And if you click on Next >>, the photo that comes up will also be full size.
..B) In General, To Best See H. Gurr Gallery Photos, Click Photo Several Times To Largest View. Then ClickDrag Sliders To See Parts Off Screen.
..C) In These Three Photos, You Will See =>
….1) View Of Cliff Looking Straight Up: The Swallows Were Frantically Flying All Around Over Me, Because I was Disturbing Their Nesting Sites, Pasted To The Rock Face.
….2) Several Swallow Nesting Sites Are Seen Pasted To The Rock Face.
….3) Close Up Of The Swallows That Were Frantically Flying All Around Over Me.
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HISTORY: THREE FORKS OF THE MISSOURI.
..Published On https://www.facebook.com/zmmquality/ by David Matos, 28 July, 2022.
….On July 28, 1805, Meriwether Lewis put pen to paper and recorded a consequential decision…
….“Both Capt. C. and myself corrisponded in opinion with rispect to the impropriety of calling either of these streams the Missouri and accordingly agreed to name them after the President of the United States and the Secretairies of the Treasury and state having previously named one river in honour of the Secretaries of War (Dearborn's River) and Navy (Smith's River). In pursuance of this resolution we called the S. W. fork, that which we meant to ascend, Jefferson's River in honor of that illustrious personage Thomas Jefferson. the Middle fork we called Madison's River in honor of James Madison, and the S. E. Fork we called Gallitin's River in honor of Albert Gallatin.”
….Lewis & Clark and their Corps of Discovery has arrived at the headwaters of the Missouri River on July 25, 1805, Their Lemhi Shoshone guide Sacajawea recognized the area as the place she had been abducted from her people years earlier. A scouting party led by Clark went ahead to the Three Forks, where three meandering rivers merged into the Missouri Rivers. Instead of identifying the largest of these three rivers as a continuation of the Missouri River, Lewis & Clark decided to name it as a tributary, the Jefferson River. As a consequence, the Mississippi River is technically longer than the Missouri River today.
….Lewis, upon arriving at the Three Forks of the Missouri, decided…
…….“beleiving this to be an essential point in the geography of this western part of the Continent I determined to remain at all events untill I obtained the necessary data for fixing it’s latitude Longitude.”
….Sacajawea would eventually reunite with her Lemhi Shoshone in a tearful, affecting reunion, meeting her brother now a chief, and another female abductee who had previously escaped and returned west. Sacajawea and the Shoshone’s help were crucial in making the Corp of Discovery’s expedition a success.
….The Three Forks area is also a site of the legendary escape of John Colter, a member of the Lewis & Clark Corps of Discover who returned to the area to trap beaver in later years. As Colter and a companion canoed up the Jefferson, they found themselves surrounded by hundreds of Blackfeet warriors who commanded them to come ashore. Colter’s companion resisted and was dispatched; Colter was stripped naked and ordered to run for his life with the Blackfeet in hot pursuit after giving him a headstart.
….Today the Three Forks of the Missouri are part of Missouri Headwaters State Park in Montana. The Gallatin River of course would give the name to Gallatin County that the Three Forks of the Missouri is located in. Sacajawea is honored with a statue on Main Street in the small town of Three Forks, MT. Pirsig fans may appreciate that Lewis & Clark named a tributary of the Jefferson River, now known as Willow Creek, "Philosophy River”.
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http://www.lewis-clark.org/article/2622
…ZMMQuality's Henry Gurr's photos and discussion of the Three Forks area...
http://venturearete.org/ResearchProjects/ProfessorGurr/gallery/album08/109_0921c?full=1
…First Of 4 Very Nice Aerial Photos Of The Three Forks River Merge To Form The Missouri River, Which Shows => 1) A bit above & left of center is the wide Missouri, forced into narrow channel by Hi Cliffs both sides. 2) At left The Jefferson River. 3) At right The Gallatin River. 4) The straight line is road from town of Three Forks, MT. 5) In center of photo is a flat uniform tan area, which as part of the “Headwaters State Park, is a raised rock good for tourist observation.
….Please remember 1) thru 5) which will help you understand the following 3 photos. Start Here =>
https://www.facebook.com/zmmquality/photos/2246099512206388
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