The Other Side Photos (Complete Album)

Reading on the 4th of July

At the Jeanette Rankin Peace Center in Missoula.

with Betsy

Executive Director JRPC

with my Missoula host, Israel

with Dwight

Gathered Friends

Israel, Mike, Jocelyn, and Sarah

Flat Repair

Fixing my tire before I head out to Helena.

Nevada Lake, Montana

View from my sleeping bag.

A bit of reading on the lake

On the way to MacDonald's Pass

????

Okay, someone is going to have to explain to me what this contraption is because they're everywhere around here and I can't figure it out.

Ah...it's called a Beaver Slide...for making huge hay piles...apparently used in the old days and here in this particular valley. (Everyone else makes hay bails.)

Mountain Tap

Fresh water straight from the source! (Two miles from the top of MacDonald's Pass)

The Continental Divide

6400 feet, looking down over western Montana

MacDonald Pass

The third beast underfoot.

On to the Badlands

Haircut in Helena, MT

with Eric the Barber

Notice all the brown (dead) trees on the mountain; soon they'll all be dead. Pine Beetles have swept across the area and are killing much of the forests. Apparently, there is nothing that can be done.

Discussion & Dinner

At Real Foods Market and Deli in Helena, Montana

with my Helena hosts Norman and Valerie

Norman fights forest fires all over the west; Valerie works for the Tibetan Children Education Foundation.

Relaxing w/ a fresh haircut

Highway Riding

Flat Tire #2

Big Sky Country

Toston, MT

Where the Buffalo Roam

And the Antelope Play

This guy raced along with me for about a mile, stopping periodically to let me catch up. They can reach speeds up to 60mph...I, on the other hand, cannot.

Heading to Bozeman

Arrived Manhattan!!

...Manhattan, MT (between Toston and Bozeman)

My Bozeman host, Ben

Ben is a Mechanical Engineer student at the Montana State University-Bozeman.

Downtown Bozeman, MT at Dawn

1000 Miles Down

?!?!?!

Hey...nobody told me there was another pass. (5700 ft)

Goodbye Rockies!!

Hello Land of Little Shade

An Overpass never looked so good!

Shade!

Billings Bound

At the Home of the "Ursuline Sisters"

with Sister Pat, Sister Frances, and Sister Mary

At the UU Fellowship, Billings

Trudging Up the Hill

That black speck on the highway is me. And honestly, I'm starting to have some serious concerns about some people's topographical understanding of their own state--the people who assured me that it would be "all flat or down hill from the Rockies!"

Not so much.

Custer, MT

Meth

I'm getting the feeling this is a major issue out here because you can't find a town anywhere without some kind of sign or billboard about it.

Rolling

Met this family traveling from Nevada to visit relatives in Montana. We talked about war and post-traumatic stress, and about their son Tyler.

Flat # 3 in Hysham, MT

Flat # 4...Five Miles Later...Grrrr

At the Bike Shop after Flat # 5

Miles from Miles City fixed my tire and generously gave me some spare tubes. He was deeply in-tuned to the issues of war and post-traumatic stress and had much to share. He said in Miles City, MT, he sees a lot of it.

RIP Fuzzy

Behind the shed at the RV Park

The Badlands

Me & Mark

Mark was on the Film Crew for the first several seasons of Survivor.

Mark & Alan

The Two-Man Film Crew. Alan has participated in Expeditions all over the world and when he's not filming he's an amateur paleontologist. He found me a couple of dinosaur bones right there in Montana!