Yes! The Road Did Twist Between Rocks Bigger Than Houses!
“ …. with twists and turns around every rock and fold in the mountains. All the traffic we were in has evidently headed north for Kalispell or Coeur D’Alene, for there’s hardly any now.“(Cont.next)
On Rt 12 ~20 miles southwest of Lolo, MT , Kalispell, MT, and Coeur D’Alene, ID, are cities (respectively from Lolo town) , 95 miles North on Rt 93 or 120 miles West-Northwest on I-90 (Old Rt 10.) This traffic would have been traveling northeast on Rt 93 toward Missoula and opposite the travel of Chris and narrator. And indeed, Rt 93 was heavy traffic; whereas, I had Rt 12 to myself. This is due to the more highly populated rich wide valleys of Montana with their wide straight roads, and considerably contrasting with the difficult road over the mountains to the difficult to penetrate sparsely populated rugged wilderness of Idaho. (This impenetrable harsh environment was the topic of previous photo.) The narrator could have equally as well mentioned Missoula or Bozeman in his story. Although their traffic would have been similar or greater as for Missoula, apparently the narrator wanted the additional spike of some new unfamiliar and exotic town names! He does this other places in ZMM.
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(Photo = 109-1034c ...... ZMM Page = 242 ...... WayPt = 258w 3542ft)