Loose “Topsoil” and Rocks Pushed Out By Bulldozer to Level the Roadbed. Beside Pavement Southwest Sun Exposure Brings On New Grass and Tiny Purple Flowers
“I’m surprised at how all the way up it backfired and sputtered and kicked and gave every indication it was going to quit but never did. I didn’t adjust them, out of curiosity to see what eleven thousand feet of altitude would do. Now I’m leaving them rich and sounding just bad because we’ll be going down some now toward Yellowstone Park and if they aren’t slightly rich now they’ll get too lean later on, which is dangerous because it overheats the engine.“
Beartooth Highway MT My notes say “Marmot digging hole in gravel area.”. My memory says it was this very bank of road fill beside the pavement! (Or a place just like it!) There were Mormot burrows all over this area. I should have taken a photo of one. Later my notes say “Saw two more big fuzzy-wuzzy Marmots. A Marmot is a ground burrowing vegetarian rodent. Apparently this elevation and these mountains are a favorite habitat, because I saw all together some seven of them. But I was never able to get a good photograph, because they are very hard to pick out in the brown grass. The only time I actually saw them, they were rapidly scampering directly to their burrow!
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