Back On the Street of Red Lodge
“ …. we put on the heavy clothing, repack and soon have traveled to …. “
Red Lodge MT View half way uphill from the Court House to the Restaurant. The restaurant is on the left and on the oppose side of street is the photography shop and the candy shop. Although the mountain seen in this view seems dominate in Red Lodge, it dropped completely out of my awareness as I drove further South. Is this because as one gets nearer to the base of the mountain, it starts to be “just a big hill” partly obscured by the town’s trees? Or is this because “both-sides-of-a-valley” is the next prominent perception? Either way “the mountain” ceased to attract my attention. In fact, all the time I was driving from Laurel towards Red Lodge and even through Red Lodge, I was not very much aware of being in a valley. This quite different from my expectations, in my previous readings of ZMM. In these readings I had always visualized the quite narrow “V-Shaped” Valleys” I have seen in the rugged mountains of West Virginia. In this state, the valley towns are “between-walls”. The town is just: 1) a-creek 2) highway and 3) a-single-line-of-houses!
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(Photo = 105-0591 ...... ZMM Page = 109 ...... WayPt = 126q)