The Road Starts To Wind Upward This Surprises the Narrator.
"The road through the canyon doesn’t straighten out into more of what we’ve been through, as I expected it would, but starts to wind upward. Surprise.“
About four miles West of Locate, MT. For 40 miles, since soon after Baker MT, the highway has been running essentially West. The Narrator expects to continue this as they head towards the mountain ridge ahead. But as he accurately reports, at the start of the climb this road does abruptly curves some 45 degrees to the Southwest, to follow a side canyon upward. After this the road curves back again to the West then several more major "meanders" as they reach the top. The Narrator is surprised by the turns of the highway. These are readily seen on a road map, and are seen in the photo above also.
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(Photo = Summer2006 0256 ...... ZMM Page = 078 ...... WayPt = 092`|k|' 2800ft)