A View Back Towards Nez Perce National Historical Park, the Green of the Town, and View of Roads New vs Old.
(Start Chapter 25) “This morning a solution to the problem of stuckness was discussed, the classic badness caused by traditional reason. Now it’s time to move to its romantic parallel, the ugliness of the technology traditional reason has produced. .. The road has twisted and rolled over desert hills into a little, narrow thread of green surrounding the town of White Bird, … “(Cont.Next)
One mile South of White Bird, ID. The new highway down White Bird Hill is visible as the trace coming down the mountainside at left. As you can see, it comes down a long, steady, fairly straight grade and remains at a much, much, higher elevation than the town as it by-passes to the West (The next photo shows how this was done). According to TopoZone.com, the Narrator’s road, with some 22 switchbacks, descends much more steeply down the relatively broad and smooth hill seen above the green beyond the town. Although the old road is not discernable in this photo, the slightly red-color may be the exposed red soil at the road cuts. This old road finally reaches the canyon bottom at the upper left of the trees, and follows White Bird Creek through the town. This road and the stream proceed, side by side, to the low area fore ground, and then off the photo to the left. The road and creek proceed at nearly the same elevation an additional mile to the Salmon River left. All this fits the Narrator’s passages above. Now realizing where the 1968 road is, and where the best ZMM passage photos would have been, I chide myself for not following my hunch and taking the road at right into town! .

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(Photo = 111-1139c ...... ZMM Page = 260 ...... WayPt = 284w 1681ft)