Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire On the road again.

I'm still blown away that I can look at a bicycle and decide which route I wanna take to cross North America

Back to the trip.

Jim's place weren't all that far away, an easy day, no rush.

First thing of interest I seen when underway that morning was this marker for Fort Assiniboin, built in 1879 to counter any incursions by Sitting Bull's Lakotas in exile in Canada. In hindsight this sounds sorta ludicrous but perhaps a testimony to the profound effect Custer's defeat on the Little Big Horn just three years earlier had on the national psyche.



Wasn't much to see, just a few red brick buildings way in the background.



...and a local issue..... dunno what to make of it....

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Seen three of these on the descent to the Milk River Valley, State-run waterfowl production areas, looked like all at different elevations along the slope . I dunno if they were natural and how that related to the water table.



One last turn and then.... AT LAST.... HE FRIGGIN' LEGENDARY HI-LINE..... see them hills in the background? That was on the Hi-Line. Hey, if it weren't for visiting Jim I coulda turned around right there.....




...but if I had I woulda prob'ly spent the rest of my life blissfully unaware of an unfolding tragedy......