Narrow shoulder with a bad pavement drop-off. No place to escape!
“[He sees us but he can’t get back in.] The shoulder is narrow and bumpy. It’ll spill us if we take it. I’m braking, honking, flashing. Christ Almighty, he panics and heads for our shoulder! I hold steady to the edge of the road. Here he COMES! At the last moment he goes back and misses us by inches.“ Rt311 between Sanders and Hysham, MT Is this where the Narrator and Chris nearly met their maker? Soon after I left Miles City, I started looking for the likely places that fit the above passage: A bad “drop-off” with a “narrow and bumpy” shoulder, followed by a town soon thereafter. Since obscuring conditions of a curved road is not mentioned, the road where this scene occurred (assumed real) should have a relatively straight section with visibility for a fair distance. Perhaps it was here, but my search was left incomplete, because the interstate had many places eliminated the old US 10/312 highway (plus roadside features), especially from Hathaway MT to Forsyth MT. Ditto for the segment between the towns of Casper MT & Pompeys Pillar MT. Any future search will have to take into account the road construction alteration of the many important local scenery clues.
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![Narrow shoulder with a bad pavement drop-off. No place to escape! “[He sees us but he can’t get back in.] The shoulder is narrow and bumpy. It’ll spill us if we take it. I’m braking, honking, flashing. Christ Almighty, he panics and heads for our shoulder! I hold steady to the edge of the road. Here he COMES! At the last moment he goes back and misses us by inches.“ Rt311 between Sanders and Hysham, MT Is this where the Narrator and Chris nearly met their maker? Soon after I left Miles City, I started looking for the likely places that fit the above passage: A bad “drop-off” with a “narrow and bumpy” shoulder, followed by a town soon thereafter. Since obscuring conditions of a curved road is not mentioned, the road where this scene occurred (assumed real) should have a relatively straight section with visibility for a fair distance. Perhaps it was here, but my search was left incomplete, because the interstate had many places eliminated the old US 10/312 highway (plus roadside features), especially from Hathaway MT to Forsyth MT. Ditto for the segment between the towns of Casper MT & Pompeys Pillar MT. Any future search will have to take into account the road construction alteration of the many important local scenery clues. ************************************ (Photo = 105-0546cfz1.5 ….. ZMM Page = 096 ...... WayPt = 105w)](http://ww2.usca.edu/ResearchProjects/ProfessorGurr/gallery/albums/album07/105_0546cfz1_5.jpg "Narrow shoulder with a bad pavement drop-off. No place to escape! “[He sees us but he can’t get back in.] The shoulder is narrow and bumpy. It’ll spill us if we take it. I’m braking, honking, flashing. Christ Almighty, he panics and heads for our shoulder! I hold steady to the edge of the road. Here he COMES! At the last moment he goes back and misses us by inches.“ Rt311 between Sanders and Hysham, MT Is this where the Narrator and Chris nearly met their maker? Soon after I left Miles City, I started looking for the likely places that fit the above passage: A bad “drop-off” with a “narrow and bumpy” shoulder, followed by a town soon thereafter. Since obscuring conditions of a curved road is not mentioned, the road where this scene occurred (assumed real) should have a relatively straight section with visibility for a fair distance. Perhaps it was here, but my search was left incomplete, because the interstate had many places eliminated the old US 10/312 highway (plus roadside features), especially from Hathaway MT to Forsyth MT. Ditto for the segment between the towns of Casper MT & Pompeys Pillar MT. Any future search will have to take into account the road construction alteration of the many important local scenery clues. ************************************ (Photo = 105-0546cfz1.5 ….. ZMM Page = 096 ...... WayPt = 105w)")