Heavy Rain Is Needed To Make Everything Green.

….“The head wind becomes more gusty here, ….“ (Cont. next)

Maxville, MT. Note square sign by road supporting a giant round saw blade. The saw blade, at least 8 feet in diameter, has the sign’s message painted on it.
….There must be plenty of timber for sawing, to require such a large saw blade in these parts.
……..Since it was raining so hard, I doubled back on the opposite side of the highway and positioned my car so I could take this photo out the car window!
….Caution: The ZMM Traveler will actually see the Saw Blade Sign on the right side of the highway.
….Google Earth with Satellite Image dated June 25, 2015, does not show “Café” on house roof, and does not show the Sawblade sign.
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Trees And A Grain Elevator In The Distance
…. Signal And Signify The Next Town.

….“ …. by the time we reach Hall are badly in need of a rest.“ (Cont. next)

A mile Southwest of Hall, MT.
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Looking Back At Rt-1, The North-South Main Highway,
….As Seen From A Main East-West Cross Road That Leads West From Town.

….[ “ …. by the time we reach Hall are badly in need of a rest.“ ] (Cont .next) “
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….In the /\ Above Photo, AT LEFT EDGE ABOVE GREY TRUCK, you can see the RED STOP SIGN in the distance. This shows you how far the Camera Location (WayPts = 250 & 251) are away from Rt-1, which is the Main North-South Highway through the center of town.
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….The /\ Above /\ Photo and Next Two Photos taken at this Way Point, form sort of a Panorama, where the camera swings each time to the right~90 degrees, for the next shot.
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….The rather long and important ZMM Narrative concerning Poincaré’s discussion of ~”Mathematical Proof” is implied to take place in a Churchyard of Hall, MT.
…..This Poincaré Narrative is distributed among the Next 6 Photos, which are all in Hall, MT.

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Along A Side Road: Looking Southwest: Two Homes & St. Michaels Church.

…. “ We find a churchyard by the side of the road and stop. The wind is blowing hard now and is chilly, but the sun is warm and we lay out our jackets and helmets on the grass on the leeward side of the church for a rest. It’s very lonely and open here, but beautiful. When you have mountains in the distance or even hills, you have space. Chris turns his face into his jacket and tries to sleep.
.... Everything is so different now without the Sutherlands -- so lonely. If you’ll excuse me I’ll just talk Chautauqua now, until the loneliness goes away.
.... To solve the problem of what is mathematical truth, Poincare’ said, we should first ask ourselves what is the nature of geometric axioms. … ”

On Side Road, Which Leads West Out Of Town, ~800 Feet West Of Rt-1, Which Is The Main North-South Highway Through The Center of Hall, MT.

….The /\ Above /\ Photo of St Michaels Church (Compared to the later seen, Hall United Methodist Church), offers the best choice, quieter place, for the Narrator & Chris to rest. This is because St Michaels Church, being on a side road AND located ~800 ft from a Stop Sign, would greatly slow down local traffic speed, and also have far less traffic than Rt-1.
….Plus, the back side of this church (away from this Side Road), would shield from prevailing wind, and facing South, would have nice, warm, midday sun.
….Moreover, as seen on TopoZone Map, the view from the back side of this church would include a view of low mountains, a bit South of West.
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Click Photo Several Times To Get Largest View, Then Look Closely, Under Left Side Of Carport Roof => Four Successive Wall Paintings, Showing Montana Mountain Scenery.
….To the Right, Also Seen Are Two Homes, A Brick School Building, and At Upper Right, The Junction Rt-1 Sign.

…. [ “ .... To solve the problem of what is mathematical truth, Poincaré said, we should first ask ourselves what is the nature of geometric axioms. … ” ]
…. “ Are they synthetic a priori judgments, as Kant said? That is, do they exist as a fixed part of man’s consciousness, independently of experience and uncreated by experience? Poincaré thought not. They would then impose themselves upon us with such force that we couldn’t conceive the contrary proposition, or build upon it a theoretic edifice. There would be no non-Euclidian geometry.
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On A Side Road, Which Leads West Out Of Town, ~800 Feet West Of Rt-1, which is the Main North-South Highway through the center of Hall, MT. (Cont.next)

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Was This House Created Using Euclidian Geometry? Hint: The Builders Used a Plumb Line, a Square, and Tight Strings (i.e. Cotton Straight Lines).
….ALSO => At Right Edge Of Porch => Note The Euclidian Geometric Perfect Straight Line, Formed By The “Hanging Log Chain”.
….This Chain Just Looks Like It Is Actually HANGING From The Roof, Rather Than It Actually Being, A Welded UP Support, For The Porch Roof!!

… [.“…we should first ask ourselves what is the nature of geometric axioms “. ]
….“ Are they synthetic a priori judgments, as Kant said? That is, do they exist as a fixed part of man’s consciousness, independently of experience and uncreated by experience? Poincaré thought not. They would then impose themselves upon us with such force that we couldn’t conceive the contrary proposition, or build upon it a theoretic edifice. There would be no non-Euclidian geometry.
....Should we therefore conclude that the axioms of geometry are experimental verities? Poincaré didn’t think that was so either.
….If they were, they would be subject to continual change and revision as new laboratory data came in. This seemed to be contrary to the whole nature of geometry itself.
….Poincaré concluded that the axioms of geometry are conventions, our choice among all possible conventions is guided by experimental facts, but it remains free and is limited only by the necessity of avoiding all contradiction. Thus it is that the postulates can remain rigorously true even though the experimental laws that have determined their adoption are only approximative. The axioms of geometry, in other words, are merely disguised definitions. “ (Cont.next)

Rt-1, About 0.4 Mile North Of Crossroad At Town Center, Hall, MT.
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For me (Henry Gurr) => Photo /\ Above /\ shows an OH! WOW House!!
….And concluding that => A Very Interesting and Very Unique Family Must Have Lived Here, when this house was originally designed!!
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….This Home and Pastures are just a bit North of the Hall United Methodist Church, and going North on Rt- 1, is the 2nd to last house out of town.

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Looking Northeast => Hall United Methodist Church and Two Homes, Seen Along The Main Road That Leads North From Town Center.

…. “Then, having identified the nature of geometric axioms, he { Poincaré] ] turned to the question, Is Euclidian geometry true or is Riemann geometry true?
…He answered, The question has no meaning.
…You might as well ask whether the metric system is true and the avoirdupois system is false; whether Cartesian coordinates are true and polar coordinates are false. One geometry can not be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
,,,,Poincaré then went on to demonstrate the conventional nature of other concepts of science, such as space and time, showing that there isn’t one way of measuring these entities that is more true than another; that which is generally adopted is only more convenient.”
,,,,Our concepts of space and time are also definitions, selected on the basis of their convenience in handling the facts.
,,,,This radical understanding of our most basic scientific concepts is not yet complete, however. The mystery of what is space and time may be made more understandable by this explanation, but now the burden of sustaining the order of the universe rests on "facts." What are facts? .
,,,,Poincaré proceeded to examine these critically. Which facts are you going to observe? he asked. There is an infinity of them. There is no more chance that an unselective observation of facts will produce science than there is that a monkey at a typewriter will produce the Lord’s Prayer.

Rt-1, About 0.4 Mile North Of Crossroad At Town Center, Hall, MT.

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Continued Next Photo, For Which The Camera Turns LEFT ~45 Deg. =>

Looking North, The Road We Will Follow Out Of Town.
….Somewhere During the Narrator’s Intense Discussion of Poincaré, He and Chris Get Back On the Highway, But We Are Not Told When or Where.

…..“ The same is true of hypotheses. Which hypotheses? Poincaré wrote, "If a phenomenon admits of a complete mechanical explanation it will admit of an infinity of others which will account equally well for all the peculiarities disclosed by experiment." This was the statement made by Phædrus in the laboratory; it raised the question that failed him out of school.
.... If the scientist had at his disposal infinite time, Poincaré said, it would only be necessary to say to him, "Look and notice well"; but as there isn’t time to see everything, and as it’s better not to see than to see wrongly, it’s necessary for him to make a choice. .. “
….“ Poincaré laid down some rules: There is a hierarchy of facts.
.. .. The more general a fact, the more precious it is. Those which serve many times are better than those which have little chance of coming up again. Biologists, for example, would be at a loss to construct a science if only individuals and no species existed, and if heredity didn’t make children like parents.
.... Which facts are likely to reappear? The simple facts. How to recognize them? Choose those that seem simple. Either this simplicity is real or the complex elements are indistinguishable. In the first case we’re likely to meet this simple fact again either alone or as an element in a complex fact. The second case too has a good chance of recurring since nature doesn’t randomly construct such cases.“(Cont.next)

About 0.4 Mile North Of Crossroad At Town Center, Hall, MT.

….As we leave Hall, MT, we now have finished the 23rd photo illustrating the ZMM Narrator’s “half page” describing the travel from Three Forks, MT to Hall, MT:
…Twenty three photos previous, is where it was explained => “A Note To Prepare The Reader (You) For The Next 23 Photos To Come:), the last Narrator mentioned town on Rt 1 out of Anaconda, MT.”

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…. The ZMM Route (o/c chosen by Robert Pirsig), would naturally want to continue to follow Rt-1, as much as possible, on the way to (and on through) Missoula, MT.
….However, because “All Roads Lead To Rome”, there is no practical way to avoid going through the heavy low quality traffic & roads of Missoula, MT.

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On The Way Out Of Town, Two White “Objects” On The Trunks Of These Two Trees, Catch The Lens Of My Camera!
….Click On Photo To Get Largest View, And Look Closely, At Both Trees AND Antique Horse-Drawn Manure Spreader

Leaving Hall, MT Behind, And Heading North On Rt-1, About 0.6 Mile North Of Crossroad At Town Center, Hall, MT.

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….For Montana so far, the /\ Above Photo, is the best “Local Flavor” I’ve seen, and it is not even a Tourist Attraction! .

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As We Observe the Tapered Straight Line Geometry of the Euclidian Geometry Straight Road,
….The Narrator Continues In His Inquiry =>
…….“How Do Know When We Have Found a Fact That Merits Our Interest?“

….“ Where is the simple fact? Scientists have been seeking it in the two extremes, in the infinitely great and in the infinitely small. Biologists, for example, have been instinctively led to regard the cell as more interesting than the whole animal; and, since Poincaré’s time, the protein molecule as more interesting than the cell. The outcome has shown the wisdom of this, since cells and molecules belonging to different organisms have been found to be more alike than the organisms themselves.
.... How then choose the interesting fact, the one that begins again and again? Method is precisely this choice of facts; it is needful then to be occupied first with creating a method; and many have been imagined, since none imposes itself. It’s proper to begin with the regular facts, but after a rule is established beyond all doubt, the facts in conformity with it become dull because they no longer teach us anything new. Then it’s the exception that becomes important. We seek not resemblances but differences, choose the most accentuated differences because they’re the most striking and also the most instructive.” (Cont.next)

Three quarters of a mile SSE of Clinton, MT. At right of /\ Above Photo, you can see an example of the marginal road that often runs by I-90.
….In this case, this marginal is for non-interstate traffic to have access to local roads, either up or down river, or for local traffic to get through the narrow canyon ahead.

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We View The Twin Rivers Historical Park, While The ZMM Narrator Says That To Build Science, We Need To Aim At The Recognition Of “Likenesses Hidden Under Apparent Divergences.”

….“ We first seek the cases in which this rule has the greatest chance of failing; by going very far away in space or very far away in time, we may find our usual rules entirely overturned, and these grand overturnings enable us the better to see the little changes that may happen nearer to us. But what we ought to aim at is less the ascertainment of resemblances and differences than the recognition of likenesses hidden under apparent divergences. Particular rules seem at first discordant, but looking more closely we see in general that they resemble each other; different as to matter, they are alike as to form, as to the order of their parts. When we look at them with this bias we shall see them enlarge and tend to embrace everything. And this it is that makes the value of certain facts that come to complete an assemblage and to show that it is the faithful image of other known assemblages.
.... No, Poincare’ concluded, a scientist does not choose at random the facts he observes. He seeks to condense much experience and much thought into a slender volume; and that’s why a little book on physics contains so many past experiences and a thousand times as many possible experiences whose result is known beforehand.” (Cont.next)

I-90 Exit To West Riverside, MT.
….The /\ Above /\ Photo shows => The Twin Rivers Historical Park, accessible from I-90. at Exit 109.
….A walk 2,000 feet east of this park will take you to a bridge over the Blackfoot River where you will be able to view the Clarks Fork River, the biggest flow river in Montana.

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Penetrating the Mysteries of Our Universe Often Requires A “Flash of Insight **AHA**”!!
…..Some People Call This Mental Arrival Experience, Epiphany, or “It Dawned on Me!”, or “The Light Went On!” or “Light-Bulb As In Cartoons!!

….“ Then Poincaré illustrated how a fact is discovered. He had described generally how scientists arrive at facts and theories but now he penetrated narrowly into his own personal experience with the mathematical functions that established his early fame.
.... For fifteen days, he said, he strove to prove that there couldn’t be any such functions. Every day he seated himself at his work-table, stayed an hour or two, tried a great number of combinations and reached no results.
... Then one evening, contrary to his custom, he drank black coffee and couldn’t sleep. Ideas arose in crowds. He felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.
.... The next morning he had only to write out the results. A wave of crystallization had taken place.” .. . [Just so we don’t miss the point about how we all, including scientists, create hypothesis AND facts ] => The ZMM Narrator gives us three very important additional examples of Poincaré’s Spontaneous Mental Arrivals AHA!! … These the Narrator calls “crystallizations”, about which Poincaré said => “The subliminal self, looks at a large number of solutions to a problem, but only the interesting ones break into the domain of consciousness. [These] Mathematical solutions are selected by the subliminal self on the basis of "mathematical beauty," of the harmony of numbers and forms, of geometric elegance. "This is a true esthetic feeling which all mathematicians know,"
... To help the reader understand these Spontaneous Mental Arrivals, which are SOLUTIONS (ie ANSWERS) to the current problems of life coming at us, the Narrator’s discussion is supported by two more pages of very interesting and important material on Poincaré and his conclusions concerning the construction and foundations of science and brain’s automatic, spontaneous, construction of our reality.
….The Narrator continues, “ Poincaré had been working on a puzzle of his own. His judgment that the scientist selects facts, hypotheses and axioms on the basis of harmony, [But] also left the rough serrated edge of a puzzle incomplete.“ (Cont.next)

Twin Rivers Historical Park, West Riverside, MT.

….At West Riverside, MT, we arrive at the joining place of two major rivers, vital to the early forest and shipping industry.
….One of three large information signs here discusses these industries.

To learn more about => These Spontaneous Mental Arrivals => Click Here, and After Page Comes Up, Scroll Down to => Please Notice the Word “CREATIVE Then read down to => Useful Acronym => RRC .
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Looking Back East From I-90 NW of Central Missoula, MT: The Pavement Points Directly Back At =>
….The Mountain “Crack”, Where The ZMM Route Came Through The Mountain Pass. =>
……..To Upper-Left of Distant Bridge => See The Cleft Between the Lighter Green and The Darker Green.
……….AND To Upper-Right of Distant Bridge, See The White “M” On The Lighter Green.
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.The Conclusion of The ZMM Narrator’s Poincaré Chautauqua.
…Be Sure To Remember The Underlined Words Below =>

….“ To leave the impression in the scientific world that the source of all scientific reality is merely a subjective, capricious harmony is to solve problems of epistemology while leaving an unfinished edge at the border of metaphysics that makes the epistemology unacceptable.
….But we know from Phædrus’ metaphysics that the harmony Poincaré talked about is not subjective. It is the source of subjects and objects and exists in an anterior relationship to them. It is not capricious, it is the force that opposes capriciousness; the ordering principle of all scientific and mathematical thought which destroys capriciousness, and without which no scientific thought can proceed. 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.“ [End Conclusion of Poincare Chautauqua“] ….” On either side of us the mountains have become steep, to form a long narrow valley that winds into Missoula. This head wind has worn me down and I’m tired now. Chris taps me and points to a high hill with a large painted M on it. I nod. “ (Cont.next)

Four miles northwest of central Missoula, MT. The “long narrow valley “ is seen at left, between the lighter green and the real dark green at the apparent end or the road seen in the foreground.
….If you click on the photo until you get the largest view, you will just make out an "M" on the mountainside.
….As you will see closer up in Next Photo, it would be rough to ride a cycle up to it!

“ The Freshmen In Each School Go Up There And newly White Paint The M Rocks Each Year.. “
….This is literally true! And => Here please keep in mind that these “Freshmen” White-Painting Mountain-Side Rocks in the shape of a letter “M”, are First Year University Students from =>
…A) University of Montana Missoula, MT. which is NOT affectionately (or derisively) called Moo-U.
…B) University of Montana Missoula, MT, is where the emphasis shifts to more Literary and Medical, and Life-Bio-Science =>
….For Example, Wikipedia For U Montana Missoula, Shows => College of Humanities & Sciences; College of Education and Human Sciences; College of Forestry and Conservation; College of Health Professions and Biomedical Sciences; College of Visual and Performing Arts; UM School of Law; UM College of Business; UM School of Journalism; UM School of Extended and Lifelong Learning; Missoula College and Bitterroot College.
SIDE NOTE: It is Montana State University, that is affectionately (or derisively) called Moo-U for good reason => Like most Land Grant Universities the emphasis is on the practical, such as Engineering and Agriculture, and in Montana especially ranching science & cattle = “Moo” !!
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From Hi Bank Of I-90, We Can See At Left “The Crack In The Mountains” Where I-90 Came Down The Pass From The East. AND To The Left, See The Letter “M”, Shown In White Rocks On a High Mountain, Which At Base Is The University of Montana. .
….With ClickDrag Bar, Gradually Scroll This Two Photo Panorama To The Right -=> You Will Successively See =>
..A) The Buildings of Eastern Missoula, MT, And Beyond Is University of Montana., he Base .
..B) Then The “V” Shape Between Mountain Ranges (This is Missoula’s Valley Going South, In Which A River and US=93 Heads South, Along The Base of the Mountains at Right Edge Of This Valley.),
..C) Then At Right Edge Of Photo, In Far Distance At The Horizon, You Are Looking SW At The Partly Snow Covered Bitterroot Mountain Range, Upon Which The ZMM Route Will Climb, To The Narrator’s “ Lolo Pass.“, Where He & Chris Enter Idaho.

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….Unlike Eastern USA Which Has Plentiful Rain & Way Too Many Trees To Cut Down => Many Western Towns Have Their Town Letter Shown In White Rocks, On a High Mountain. This Is Successful Because It Is Too Dry For Visual Obstructing Trees, To Grow Faster Than Can Be Easily Controlled,

…. [ “ ….Chris taps me and points to a high hill with a large painted M on it. I nod “.] “ This morning we passed one like it as we left Bozeman. A fragment occurs to me that the freshmen in each school go up there and paint the M each year.
….At a station where we fill with gas, a man with a trailer carrying two Appaloosa horses strikes up a conversation. Most horse people are anti-motorcycle, it seems, but this one is not, and he asks a lot of questions, which I answer. Chris keeps asking to go up to the M, but I can see from here it’s a steep, rutty, scrambler road. With our highway machine and heavy load I don’t want to fool with it. We stretch our legs for a while, walk around …. “ (Cont.next)

Standing High On Road Cut of, I-90 just North of downtown Missoula, MT. If you look closely you can see, at left, the deep crack between the dark green and the black, is where I-90 Came Down The Pass From The East. … The Big “M” is white spot to right of the crack. (If you hold the mouse cursor over the photo, you may see a “Hand”. This means the photo will go to maximum size consistent with the saved file. Click-on-it, and the photo will be large enough to discern that it is the “M”!)
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You Should Have Immediately Noted The Reluctance (Again) For The Narrator To Do Anything Chris Wants, Even After Clear, Repeated Requests.
…. Look how weary and in need of a leg stretch. They could have stopped the incessant, sit on a cycle traveling for a while, and simply hiked up there! The ZMM Narrator is fond of mountain climbing and wants Chris to like it.
...What’s the hurry? In fact the Narrator repeatedly says “Don’t get in a hurry!”
….This is a vacation and the Narrator even says this trip is done so he can reunite ties with Chris.
…. So… Why Does The Narrator NOT Want Do What Chris Wants?
…. Click Here.To Read => ZMM Research: The ZMM Narrator’s Treatment Of Chris, Both Good & Bad.

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A THREE PHOTO PANORAMA. =>
…Starting At The Left Edge, You Can (Above Clump Of Trees At Highway Edge), See (The Previously Mentioned And Shown In The Previous Photo), “Deep Crack Between The Green & The Black” In The Mountains. This Is Where I-90 Came Down The Pass From The East.
….AND Looking To The Right, See The Letter “M”, Shown In White Rocks On a High Mountainside, Below Which At Mountain Base Is University of Montana. .
….With ClickDrag Bar, Gradually Scroll This Panorama (Which Happens to Includes 2nd Previous Photo) To The Right -=> You Will Successively See =>
..A) The Buildings of Eastern Missoula, MT, And Beyond Is University of Montana.,
..B) The Big Electric Power Pole, Which On Center Shows => Missoula’s “Long Narrow Valley “ Stretching Out To The South, With Mountains On Both Sides.
..C) Please Scroll The panoramas So Big Electric Power Pose Is Center Screen & Study => The Mountains On Both Sides Of This Wide Valley, And Know That => Along The Base of the Bitterroot Mountains at Right Edge Of This Valley => North Flows (Toward The Camera) The Bitterroot River, With US-93 Having Staying Close, Practically From The Montana Idaho Border, 94 Miles, Almost Directly South Of Here.
..D) Just A Bit Right Of The Electric Power Pole, ~4 Miles Beyond The Line OF Darker Green Trees, Is Where =>The Bitterroot River (Flowing North Toward The Camera), Junctions with and Flows Into The Clark Fork Of The Columbia River.
..E) Then ClickDrag To Almost The Right Edge Of Photo, To Where You See ABOVE The Long Low White Building, The More Distant Partly Snow Covered Mountains, At The Horizon. These Are Part of The Bitterroot Mountain Range, Upon Which The ZMM Route Will Climb, To The Narrator’s “ Lolo Pass.“, Where He & Chris Enter Idaho.

…. “ and then somewhat wearily head out of Missoula toward Lolo Pass.” (Cont. next)
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Missoula, MT. At (GPS 46.91198 -114.0651)

In This Satellite View You Can See =>
In This Satellite View, The Above-Mentioned “River Junction” Happens Four Miles Northwest Of Central Missoula, MT, Where On Satellite View, The RedPinpoint Marks This /\ Above /\ Photo Location.
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…. Viewing Instructions For Above Blue Satellite Link.
….AFTER Satellite View Comes Up =>
..A) RedPinpoint On Satellite View, Marks The /\ Above Panorama Photo Location (WayPt = 256). And about 4 Miles Southwest of this Satellite View RedPinpoint Location, you can see where the Bitterroot River flowing from the South, joins the Clark Fork River flowing from The East. Where the combined waters move Northwest, to eventually join the Columbia River, flowing to the Pacific Ocean.
..B) At lower Right, you can see words “University of Montana”, and above see the RedWhiteBlue Icon of I-90. This marks approximately (WayPt = 255) of the Previous Photo.

…C) You Can See => The I-90 Highway, from the East, down into Missoula, MT and the “long narrow valley “ stretching out to the South, with Mountains on both sides.
…D) And, looking at the mountains on West Valley Side, you can pick out.at The Base of the Bitterroot Mountains, the => North Flowing Bitterroot River, With US-93 Having Staying Close, Practically , 94 Miles, From The Montana Idaho Border.
…E) Of course, The I-90 Highway, from the East, down into Missoula, MT, traces the above mentioned” crack between the green and the black.”
…F) You can see The ZMM Route roads to Lolo, MT (and Lolo Pass and thence into Idaho) as follows => I-90 Highway West to Rt 93. Turn South to Lolo, MT, and there turn West onto US-12, there twisty windy, climb the mountainsise, toward Lolo Pass and the border of Idaho.
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This Local History Sign Is a “Must Read” =>
….For Anyone Traveling Out Of Missoula, MT And On Into Idaho.
…In /\ Above /\ Photo => To Read The /\ Above /\ Sign, Click On The Photo Several Times To Get Largest View. AND Remember (Take Notes) What You Read, Because The Next ~52 Photos Will Show (And Discuss) Much Of This Same Territory.
…Please Pay Close Attention To The Map On The Sign, Showing Lochsa River And The Dotted Line For VERY HISTORICAL The Lolo Trail.
…Present Day US-12, is where the road (with ZMM Route), Stays Close To The River.

“ A recollection appears that not many years ago this road was all dirt with twists and turns around every rock and fold in the mountains. Now it’s paved and the turns are very broad. …. ” (Cont. next)


LoLo, MT. ….Here The ZMM Route Again Takes Up “Good Old” U.S. Rt-12 West, And Then Southwest , Eventually Arriving At Lolo Hot Springs Cafe, Several Miles Prior To The Top Of Lolo Pass*,
….The Change From “Dirt Road” To “Pavement” Seems To Follow the Ongoing March Of Time!
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Lolo, MT. If you look at a USA Map, or better yet study US-12 On Wikipedia, Click Here, you will see that it is a Venerable Institution, that runs ~2500 miles from Detroit, Michigan, to Aberdeen, KS, & then on to Seattle, Washington. As has been discussed on many ZMMQ Gallery Photos, The ZMM Route, in various places, covers probably over 600 miles on US-12. This includes => Starting just East of Mobridge, SD and continuing through Miles City, Mt, and ending at Forsyth, Mt. Then the ZMM Route rejoins US-12, at Avon MT, travels with I-90 thru Missoula, and leaves I-90 to travel South with US-93 to this Sign Location, and continue as described above.
….The /\ Above /\ Photo is where Rt 12 (and ZMM Route),are just around the corner from where it leaves US-93, will now go Up-Up-Twisty-Windy West, and then Southwest, to Lolo Pass, and there cross the border from Montana into Idaho.

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Yes! The Road Did Twist Between Rocks Bigger Than Houses!

….“ …. with twists and turns around every rock and fold in the mountains. All the traffic we were in has evidently headed north for Kalispell or Coeur D’Alene, for there’s hardly any now.“ (Cont.next)

On US-12 ~20 miles southwest of Lolo, MT. From The Town of LoLo, MT, the towns of => Kalispell, MT, and Coeur D’Alene, ID, are cities (respectively), 95 miles North on US-93 or 120 miles West-Northwest on I-90 (Old Rt 10.)
….This traffic the ZMM Narrator mentions, would have been traveling northeast on US- 93 toward Missoula, and opposite the travel of Chris and Narrator. ….And indeed I experienced heavy traffic on US-93; whereas, I had US-12 to myself.
….This heavy traffic pattern, is due to the more highly populated rich wide valleys of this end of Montana, with their wide straight roads. This is considerably contrasting with this narrower twisty more difficult US-12 road over the mountains to LoLo Pass, just to reach the difficult to penetrate, sparsely populated rugged wilderness West of here, into Mountainous Idaho. (This “Impenetrable Harsh Environment” was the topic of Local History Sign of previous photo.)
….For “high traffic” examples, the ZMMNarrator could have better mentioned Missoula, MT , or Bozeman, MT, in his story.
….Although Chris & The Narrator’s traffic would have been similar or greater as for Missoula, apparently the Narrator WANTED the “Additional Spike & Spice” of some new unfamiliar and exotic town names! He does this other places in ZMM !!

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The Highest Snow Covered Mountain Is Lolo Peak at 9,096 ft.
“Now it’s paved and the turns are very broad.“ (Cont.next)

….Ten miles West of Lolo, MT. Beyond a closer grass covered range lies the Bitterroot Range. It is a massive, high, continuous rugged mountain barrier that starts just south of the northwest corner of Montana and runs southeast for 300 miles.
….These mountains, called the “Bitterroot Range”, is so formidable and relatively impenetrable, that it naturally became the largest part of the border between Montana and Idaho. The state line runs exactly along the peak tops of the ridge.
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Excerpts From Wikipedia Bitterroot.
….Bitterroot (Lewisia rediviva) is a small perennial herb in the family Montiaceae. Its specific epithet rediviva ("revived, reborn") refers to its ability to regenerate from dry and seemingly dead roots..French trappers knew the plant as racine amère (bitter root). Native American names included spetlum/sp̓eƛ̓m̓ or spetlem ("hand-peeled"), nakamtcu (Ktanxa: naqam¢u),[9] and mo'ôtáa-heséeo'ôtse (Cheyenne, "black medicine" ]
….The roots were consumed by tribes such as the Shoshone and the Flathead Indians as an infrequent delicacy. Traditionally, the Ktunaxa cooked bitterroot with grouse. For the Ktunaxa, bitterroot is eaten with sugar; other tribes prefer eating it with salt. The Lemhi Shoshone believed the small red core found in the upper taproot had special powers, notably being able to stop a bear attack.
,,,,Meriwether Lewis ate bitterroot in 1805 and 1806 during the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The specimens he brought back were identified and given their scientific name, Lewisia rediviva, by a German-American botanist, Frederick Pursh.[8] Based on Lewis and Clark's manuscript, Pursh labeled it "spatlum"; this apparently was actually a Salishan name for "tobacco".
,,,,The bitterroot was selected as the Montana state flower in 1895.
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,,,,Three major geographic features – owe the origins of their names -- to this flower. => The Bitterroot Mountains (running north–south and forming the divide between Idaho and Montana), the Bitterroot Valley, and the Bitterroot River (which flows south–north, terminating in the Clark Fork river in the city of Missoula) ….

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