Travel Day

Wednesday, January 22, 2020
Earthquake Lake, Montana, United States
Travel day.  A few inches of fresh snow so debated hitting the slopes for a few runs but decided to rest the knee (which started feeling a bit swollen).  Stopped in West Yellowstone and got a tip to drive state road 191 back to 287 then 87 around the mountain and past Earthquake Lake.  In 1959, an earthquake caused a landslide that covered a campground (tragically full of campers) and dammed the creak creating the lake.  It’s a strange sight with trees coming up right in the middle of the lake (right where they grew when the spot was still the shore of the creak).  You can easily see where the slide occurred due to the missing forest on the side of the mountain.  Pretty crazy.  A bit further on we saw a herd of big horn sheep – some three dozen or so on the side of the road.  They were perfectly camouflaged in the surrounding bush (except of course for the ones in the middle of the road).  Got back to SLC around 8pm and had dinner and hit yet another brew pub. 

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