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Travel Blogs from Cooke City
Nearly Yellowstone, Bear Tooth Highway
... Rock Creek, 4 miles out of town. Beautiful spot. The Crow Indians call it Swift Water, which is very apt. Monday 4th June. Had a look around Red Lodge this morning. Originally a coal mining town, now an alpine play area, all year round, for both summer & winter sports. Nice town. Only 8' snow average per year, in the town! In saying that, they had 10" of snow last week, when we were finding it so cold in Leadville, Cheyenne, Fort Laramie & Southern ...
Yellowstone Day 6
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It's times like these that make us want to keep coming back to Yellowstone. Even the professional photographers were thrilled with this delightful bear sighting. What a day!
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Yellowstone Day 2
... br> As we continued through the valley, we pulled over several times to use the binoculars and look around. At one of the pullouts, we spotted some movement on a far hill...wolves! There were two black/brown wolves stalking 4 elk on a hill. The wolves would watch and then move a little closer and we thought we would see some ...
Granite Peak, MT, day 4
... sat down and talked about the situation. It was obvious that I wasn't moving quickly enough to be able to summit and get back down in a reasonable amount of time. Rather than spend time climbing when I knew we wouldn't be able to summit I decided to go back to camp and use the time to hike back toward the trailhead so our hike out tomorrow wouldn't be quite as long. ...
Granite Peak, MT, day 1
... over 23-miles.
Granite Peak is the highest point in Montana. While opinions differ on just which is the hardest, Granite Peak, Gannett Peak, the highpoint of Wyoming, and Mt. Rainier, the highpoint of Washington, are considered the three most difficult highpoints in the lower 48. While Gannett Peak and Mt. Rainier involve a lot of snow travel, Granite Peak ...