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Nettie's Road Trip, May 2010
Thought I'd just post some of my photographs as we go along.
Started from Spokane this morning, and the first stop was in Haugan, MT, to visit the truly tacky and wonderfully cheesy $50,000 Silver Dollar Bar: http://gumbercules.com/2010_road_tri...Haugan, MT.jpg There is enough tourist tat in this place to choke a thousand horses. We caught our first glimpse of the Rockies, just to the west of Dixon, MT: http://gumbercules.com/2010_road_tri... Dixon, MT.jpg Next stop was the outstandingly bizarre Miracle of America Museum. This has a ton of old stuff, mainly WWII-era, but a fair bit earlier and later. Out back, they are "reconstructing" a settlers' town. The overall feeling of the place is slightly insane, and it isn't so much a museum as an agglomeration of random pieces of Americana. This is a "found art sculpture" that caught my eye: http://gumbercules.com/2010_road_tri...Polson, MT.jpg We're staying tonight at Mountain Lake Lodge, just south of Bigfork, MT. This is an Osprey that was flying around earlier this afternoon: http://gumbercules.com/2010_road_tri...e Flathead.jpg We found out this afternoon that Logan Pass is still under 27' of snow, so we shan't get up to the Continental Divide, but we're still looking forward to our next three days in Glacier NP. More later... Nettie |
Re: Nettie's Road Trip, May 2010
Beautiful photos. Glad the trip is going well....enjoy :thumbsup:
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Re: Nettie's Road Trip, May 2010
Nice!
I shall be checking in daily to see where you go next. |
Re: Nettie's Road Trip, May 2010
Very good, I enjoyed that.
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This is fun!:thumbup:
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I want to go!!!
Love the photo of the Rockies.. and the found art. Enjoy! |
Re: Nettie's Road Trip, May 2010
Originally Posted by meauxna
(Post 8565357)
I want to go!!!
Love the photo of the Rockies.. and the found art. Enjoy! |
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Lovely! Roll on the next update! :thumbup:
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Re: Nettie's Road Trip, May 2010
Excellent!! Looking forward to seeing your next leg (of the journey of course) :D
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This is like a Where's Waldo, BUT with lovely pics, :)
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Re: Nettie's Road Trip, May 2010
Looking like a cool road trip, have fun! :)
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Re: Nettie's Road Trip, May 2010
No internet connection for the last three days. A pain, but good too.
Couple more pics, but not a lot of time tonight: more to follow... http:///gumbercules.com/2010_road_trip/chocolate.jpg http:///gumbercules.com/2010_road_trip/meh.jpg http:///gumbercules.com/2010_road_trip/itsthe.jpg http:///gumbercules.com/2010_road_trip/heli1.jpg http:///gumbercules.com/2010_road_trip/heli2.jpg More later... |
Re: Nettie's Road Trip, May 2010
Fab photos Nettie. Is that Bullwinkle?
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Re: Nettie's Road Trip, May 2010
Originally Posted by Jerseygirl
(Post 8569445)
Fab photos Nettie. Is that Bullwinkle?
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Re: Nettie's Road Trip, May 2010
What kind of critter is that in the first picture? I can't make it out.
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Re: Nettie's Road Trip, May 2010
Originally Posted by The Horticulturalist
(Post 8570448)
What kind of critter is that in the first picture, I can't make it out.
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Re: Nettie's Road Trip, May 2010
Like JG says, it's a bull moose. There was a cow and calf around as well, so I was not happy about getting too close. I have a piccy of the cow, but she always kept herself between the calf and us.
Also, a grizzly was moving into the area (Lake Josephine at Many Glacier, on the east side of the park), so we were asked to leave by a ranger pretty soon after I got these photographs. |
Re: Nettie's Road Trip, May 2010
Great pictures! Would love to take my husband up that way some day. We went to Montana and Wyoming when I was 10, I remember it was very beautiful. :)
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Re: Nettie's Road Trip, May 2010
Awesome! It looks like you went up in a helicopter, which is something I've always wanted to do.:thumbup:
While you're in MT, are you going to visit Bozeman, to see the site of Zefram Cochrane's historic warp drive flight and first contact? |
Re: Nettie's Road Trip, May 2010
It looks fantastic, have fun!
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Re: Nettie's Road Trip, May 2010
Originally Posted by nettlebed
(Post 8570539)
Like JG says, it's a bull moose. There was a cow and calf around as well, so I was not happy about getting too close. I have a piccy of the cow, but she always kept herself between the calf and us.
Also, a grizzly was moving into the area (Lake Josephine at Many Glacier, on the east side of the park), so we were asked to leave by a ranger pretty soon after I got these photographs. So cool! :thumbsup: |
Re: Nettie's Road Trip, May 2010
Originally Posted by nettlebed
(Post 8569442)
No internet connection for the last three days. A pain, but good too.
Couple more pics, but not a lot of time tonight: more to follow... http:///gumbercules.com/2010_road_trip/chocolate.jpg http:///gumbercules.com/2010_road_trip/meh.jpg http:///gumbercules.com/2010_road_trip/itsthe.jpg http:///gumbercules.com/2010_road_trip/heli1.jpg http:///gumbercules.com/2010_road_trip/heli2.jpg More later... Rene |
Re: Nettie's Road Trip, May 2010
Same here Rene, can't see any of the second lot .... stamping feet .... s'not fair!! :sneaky:
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Re: Nettie's Road Trip, May 2010
Me either!! and I had been waiting on the next batch! poop!:frown:
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Re: Nettie's Road Trip, May 2010
Originally Posted by Englishtart
(Post 8571408)
Me either!! and I had been waiting on the next batch! poop!:frown:
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Re: Nettie's Road Trip, May 2010
Originally Posted by meauxna
(Post 8571485)
That is weird, they are working for me. But Nettie should lock down his index. :)
Not working for me either:( |
Re: Nettie's Road Trip, May 2010
pics are working for me, but could well be because they're cached.
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Re: Nettie's Road Trip, May 2010
Originally Posted by candy wy.
(Post 8571504)
Not working for me either:(
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Re: Nettie's Road Trip, May 2010
Works for me. The first one is a moose hiding behind trees. The second is a white mountain goat laying on a rock. The third is a wolf walking away. The last two are taken from a light aircraft or chopper of snow capped mountains.
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Re: Nettie's Road Trip, May 2010
Originally Posted by Jerseygirl
(Post 8572070)
Works for me. The first one is a moose hiding behind trees. The second is a white mountain goat laying on a rock. The third is a wolf walking away. The last two are taken from a light aircraft or chopper of snow capped mountains.
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Re: Nettie's Road Trip, May 2010
Originally Posted by nettlebed
(Post 8570539)
Like JG says, it's a bull moose. There was a cow and calf around as well, so I was not happy about getting too close. I have a piccy of the cow, but she always kept herself between the calf and us.
Also, a grizzly was moving into the area (Lake Josephine at Many Glacier, on the east side of the park), so we were asked to leave by a ranger pretty soon after I got these photographs. |
Re: Nettie's Road Trip, May 2010
Those of you who couldn't see the next batch, try these (I had a superfluous "/" in the linkies):
http://gumbercules.com/2010_road_trip/chocolate.jpg http://gumbercules.com/2010_road_trip/meh.jpg http://gumbercules.com/2010_road_trip/itsthe.jpg http://gumbercules.com/2010_road_trip/heli1.jpg http://gumbercules.com/2010_road_trip/heli2.jpg |
Re: Nettie's Road Trip, May 2010
:thumbsup: Excellent photos..... keep 'em coming.....
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Wow, beautiful, I'd be so excited (and scurrrrrred) being that close to those animals!! :thumbsup:
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Re: Nettie's Road Trip, May 2010
Nothing so fancy today (on the wildlife front, at least) since most of yesterday was spent on the road.
On Sunday evening we drove from West Glacier to Missoula, then yesterday was 9am-7pm to get down to Idaho Falls. We stopped for around three hours at the Craters of the Moon National Monument on the way. The drive down is VERY attractive, IF you avoid the freeway. US 93 runs from Missoula all the way down to Arco, ID, and from about 15 miles north of Salmon it is relentlessly scenic. South of Salmon the drive is very twisty, and I had to be careful not to end up in the scenery through staring at the scenery. I didn't take photographs of that drive, since it would have doubled the travel time with all the stops, but here are some other photographs. This is the pass at the southern end of the Big Lost River valley, to the north of Arco, ID. It's around 7000' high, and it was really blowing a hoolie here: I guess the wind was about 35mp5, gusting to 50mph. This is looking south to the plain. http://gumbercules.com/2010_road_tri...rroot Pass.jpg I am a fan of the history of nucular and atomic science, so Arco fascinates me. There will be a few nucular-related photos here, in case anyone else in interested. On that note, the next photograph is the famous "Atoms for Peace" sign in Arco. Read the sign for the details. Also, if you have the time, read "Proving the Principle," by Susan Stacy for a first-class history of nuclear science and technology in SE Idaho. There is a chapter on the significance of this sign in that book. http://gumbercules.com/2010_road_tri... Arco Sign.jpg Next up, Craters of the Moon (see link above), which is just uncanny. A huge lava field (over 1000 sq miles). It's not really possible to describe it: you need to go there to experience it. Photograph one is of some rope-like lave formations, called Pāhoehoe by Hawaiians. http://gumbercules.com/2010_road_tri...7 Craters1.jpg This is a so-called spatter cone, but I like to call it Mount Doom, for obvious reasons: http://gumbercules.com/2010_road_tri...Mount Doom.jpg Last up, for the nerdulous like me, this is one of the reasons this Arco area is so fascinating: http://gumbercules.com/2010_road_tri...7 INL Sign.jpg We're just off to do some more nucular tourism, with a two hour private tour of EBR-1. |
Re: Nettie's Road Trip, May 2010
Wow, thank you for re-posting! Those are awesome photos! :D
Rene |
Re: Nettie's Road Trip, May 2010
Originally Posted by nettlebed
(Post 8573586)
We're just off to do some more nucular tourism, with a two hour private tour of EBR-1.
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Re: Nettie's Road Trip, May 2010
Originally Posted by nettlebed
(Post 8573586)
This is the pass at the southern end of the Big Lost River valley, to the north of Arco, ID. It's around 7000' high, and it was really blowing a hoolie here: I guess the wind was about 35mp5, gusting to 50mph. This is looking south to the plain.
My friend Lloyd, who died last year, had a drill press in the garage that his grandparents brought over on the Oregon Trail. It's all so close! |
Re: Nettie's Road Trip, May 2010
Originally Posted by meauxna
(Post 8573888)
I'm glad you're getting to do all the nerdalicious stuff you like, but these pics of the plains & mountains never cease to amaze me.. can you imagine crossing that for months with a covered wagon?
My friend Lloyd, who died last year, had a drill press in the garage that his grandparents brought over on the Oregon Trail. It's all so close! Anyway as for the roadtrip - these photos are GREAT!!! We are off to the Oregon coast this weekend.... wonder if I will see a Moose - will deffo post a pic if I do :) |
Re: Nettie's Road Trip, May 2010
Originally Posted by Burn1911
(Post 8574039)
We are off to the Oregon coast this weekend.... wonder if I will see a Moose - will deffo post a pic if I do :)
Have a SUPER great time and yes, we want pics from you, moose or no! :thumbsup: Find a puffin for us. That would be nice! North side of Haystack Rock in CB.. they will have volunteers with binos to show you where to look.. puffins are becoming rare & this is their looooove time so check it out. :) |
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