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You won't find in my post a declarative statement that I believe USGS maps provide 100% of everything, nor will anybody find I am recommending possession of all of the USGS quad sheets for DV whenever visiting. The point was, and is, that heading off into unknown territory without a good...

I'll wholeheartedly agree with BigDawwg on a couple of very important points: 1) Maps of the type which any cross-country hiker should have in hand (either downloaded to a device or, best of all, have in hand) are not inherently inaccurate, not at all. The baseline map considered essential...

I sure enjoy your reports, especially the fuller versions on the blog. Great work and many thanks for taking the time to put them up.

We have coyotes in our subdivision (heavily wooded, built out in the early 1960s) and we're only 5.5 miles from the state Capitol building in downtown Raleigh. Our county has about 1,000,000 residents and very little rural land left. Just started seeing coyotes about 5 years ago, and now it's no...

You're right, Jerry, those second and third sequence of photos are terrific. I'd like to send a couple of them to my Sedimentation and Stratigraphy professor from the mid-1970s. He's in his late 80s and spends a lot of his time exchanging old and new outcrop photos with his former students...

Those are some world class cross-beds in those outcrops. Keep it coming Jerry! Foy

Very cool trip and write-up/photos! Thanks for posting!

It's great to see you and Tanner out and about again Jerry!

Good on ya, Jerry! Although it would appear that I'll have to now get a life of my own! Best regards and best wishes in your future endeavors. Foy

You're too kind, Jerry, and I'm sure some of my friends will get a kick out of me being associated with MSNBC! Turns out Tom Duffy was the son AND grandson of helicopter pilots. Tom having passed away at age 40, doing a bit of math makes me curious about his father's training background. If...

Amazing family story: I recalled in the article I'd read that the late Tom Duffy was himself the son of a chopper pilot. On Sunday morning the 6th, his father, Mark Duffy, flew a series of missions at Granite Peak, the highest point in Montana, rescuing two injured climbers. A third climber...

I read a lengthy news story from the Missoulian (online edition) about the late Tom Duffy. He was a first-class individual in every way. Bozeman, Montana, and all of the West where he flew fire support and SAR will miss him greatly.

Looks like the Madison is truly a caprock horizon on Knife Blade Ridge. One pic appears to show the light gray Madison over top of the tan-weathering Jefferson Formation, a coarse-grained dolomite of Devonian age which has its own erosion surface at its top, representing a gap in the...

Thanks for breaking trail for us, Jerry. Been on the road ourselves for a bit, so just catching up today while in town. August in Montana can be and this year is wonderful--we've seen exactly two small wildfire smoke plumes in a week and a half, morning lows in the 40s and afternoon highs in...

You saw, first hand, some of the multitude of gifts provided to Montana by the Madison Limestone. The Madison is a carbonate deposited in shallow water some 325 to 350 million years ago during the Mississippian Period. In much of central Montana, the top of the Madison horizon was exposed by...

Splendid, Jerry, just splendid.

And after some nighttime reading in my new, updated "Roadside Geology of Montana" last night, I think I know the objective!

You've got us hooked, Jerry! A cliffhanger! I followed US 191 out of Judith Gap to Sipple Rd to Crystal Lake Rd and Crystal Lake (on Google maps) while eating lunch at home yesterday, and now I'm on the edge of my seat for the next installment of "I've been everywhere......." by Jerry himself.

Loving the Central Montana laccolith ranges. Will be seeing the Big Snowy and Bears Paw ranges before long, Lord willin' and the creeks don't rise........... Foy

Seems like nearly every town in Montana has a Stockman's Bar or a Stockman's Cafe. I wonder how many there really are. Looking forward to seeing where US 191 north took you. We'll use it just a bit, from the Missouri River to DY Junction, soon. Foy