Many Western Towns Have Their Town Letter Shown In White Rocks On a High Mountain. This Is Successful Because It Is Too Dry For Trees to Grow.
“ …. [Chris taps me and points to a high hill with a large painted M on it. I nod.] This morning we passed one like it as we left Bozeman. A fragment occurs to me that the freshmen in each school go up there and paint the M each year.
At a station where we fill with gas, a man with a trailer carrying two Appaloosa horses strikes up a conversation. Most horse people are anti-motorcycle, it seems, but this one is not, and he asks a lot of questions, which I answer. Chris keeps asking to go up to the M, but I can see from here it’s a steep, rutty, scrambler road. With our highway machine and heavy load I don’t want to fool with it. We stretch our legs for a while, walk around …. “(Cont.next)
I-90 just North of downtown Missoula, MT If you look closely you can see, at left, the deep crack between the dark green and the black. The Big “M” is white spot to right of the crack. (If you hold the mouse cursor over the photo, you may see a “Hand”. This means the photo will go to maximum size consistent with the saved file. Click-on-it, and the photo will be large enough to discern that it is the “M”!) You should have noted the reluctance (again) for the narrator to do any thing Chris wants, even after clear, repeated requests. They could have stopped the incessant traveling for a while and hiked up there! Look how weary and in need of a leg stretch. The narrator is fond of mountain climbing and wants Chris to like it. What’s the hurry? This is a vacation and the narrator says this trip is done so he can reunite ties with Chris. …. So. …. Why doesn’t the narrator want do what Chris wants?
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