Recent content by Foy

You're killing me, Jerry. Around August 11-13 of this year, we re-routed from a traverse from the west side of the Bears Paw Mountains to Zortman due to the passage of several large thunderstorm cells on the 10th. But since you were in Zortman, was the Miner's Club Bar and Restaurant open? I...

Yep, looks totally familiar: a banzai descent on a rutted and steep gravel free segment of bentonite surfaced road. For our 2010 and 2011 trips, my wife was restricted by available PTO so I drove the old diesel solo and picked her up at the Bozeman airport. Then she accompanied me in 2015...

We spent a long afternoon on the other side of US 191 from Sand Creek Rd in August 2022, cross country from the McClelland Ferry with popup camper in tow (I know, I know). Same increasingly sketchy two-track roads within the C M Russell NWR. But after only NEARLY becoming marooned crossing Two...

The first full week of August was seriously chilly while we were in Rock Creek, just east of Missoula. Wet, also. We had morning temp in the 30s on/about 5th or 6th, and probably an inch of rain over a couple of days, too. Where we were, the canyon is only 4,300' elevation, too, so it was cold...

I'm grateful for the additional support. I've spent a considerable sum in dollars and hours on maintenance and prep so i think if I can keep a light foot on the skinny pedal I'll be OK. Hotter than the hinges of Hell now (late afternoon) loading up and hitching up. I've got to survive this...

You're so very kind. We've got reservations all made and the truck has had every fluid changed, right down to a brake fluid flush. Weather doesn't look terribly hot on our route over the next several days, so maybe the old war horse will rattle across the country at 1,700 rpms without fault...

Jerry, If the Good Lord is willin', creeks don't rise, and our 23 year old F350 diesel with 300,000 miles cooperates for her 7th trip from NC to the Northern Rockies, our ETA in White Sulphur Springs is late afternoon 7/22. We'll enter the cowpasture grounds of the Red Ants Pants Music Festival...

Thanks for the preview. We'll be passing through the Shields Valley enroute to White Sulphur Springs soon.

Colt Killed Creek was in fact named by Lewis & Clark after they had to sacrifice one of their pack horses there on the outbound leg in September 1805. They'd been able to acquire horses from the Shoshone at Camp Fortunate just east of Lemhi Pass a month earlier, but they erroneously assumed...

I'm unsure what you mean by caves in Southeastern Montana, but once you get east of the Little Rockies, Little and Big Snowies, and Pryors/Bighorns in MT/WY, you've gotten out of where the Madison Group outcrops at the surface in Montana (and, therefore, where Madison caves and caverns are...

Been on the road (within 160 miles of home, however) parts of the last 3 weeks, so just catching up with your Journey. It may come as no surprise to you to know that the caves you found in the Pryors, as well as the ice caves up top on Big Pryor Mtn, are hosted by the Madison Group limestones...

General O O Howard led the pursuit of Chief Joseph from Idaho through much of Montana, almost to the Canadian border, in 1877. Howard was much criticized during his Civil War and Indian campaigns.

Turns out the professional literature notes the presence of Mississippian limestone in the Dragoon Mountains, but further notes that the limestone unit altered by contact metamorphism from the hot granite intrusion is an impure limestone of younger age---the Pennsylvanian-Permian Naco Group. I...

The 7th picture in this sequence appears to show the contact between light tan granitic (and thus intrusive) rock (left side of photo) and a grayish intruded rock which appears to be limestone (right side of photo). Any time you've got cold limestones intruded by hot igneous rock like granite...

I just came across a YT video from Solomon's Outdoor Adventures entitled "Geology of the Santa Rita Mountains & their rich copper deposits--Tuscon, Arizona". Incudes Mt Wrightson and a lot about how the many metallic mineral deposits were formed, with a focus on a controversial yet undeveloped...