The the Non Involved ZMM Traveler Will Not Discover the Narrators Meltwater Stream Until Rock Creek Park. Note Dry Grass Covered Bluff In Distance Left, Signifying the East Edge of the Valley.
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Just North of Downtown Red Lodge, MT. Here at second large city park, this huge rushing mountain stream runs immediately by the highway. But even at Red Lodge, the water is most certainly “older” than an hour! In 2002, by defect of my memory to do it, I did not get my stream photograph here. No problem, since I expected to get good shots of the stream & canyon ahead. But as before Red Lodge, good views of the stream eluded me. And somehow I missed the one good place I found in 2006 (2nd next photo). As before Red Lodge, the stream was generally not close enough to directly perceive (or photograph from road) until we entered the U shaped glacial valley. And by then the road was way up the canyon wall and too far away to properly illustrate the above passage.
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(Photo = Summer2006 0481 ...... ZMM Page = 109 ...... WayPt = 127k)