The Crazy Mountains: Part 5

On June 12, 2019 I headed west, once again, for Glacier National Park. This time, when I left the confines of my apartment in Billings, Montana, I was going alone. Doug was working on his articles and did not want to take the time off. My first major trip since our Glacier excursion in October 2018, was a repeat, to what has been referred to as “the Crown of the Continent.” And as such, that meant driving by the Crazy Mountains. I can never pass up an opportunity to get some snapshots of these very nice mounds of rock to the north of I-90. Of course, the main focus of this trip was over 300 miles further west, so I did not linger at the Crazies.

The previous images were from my Glacier National Park Trip of June 12, 13, and 14. The next photos will be from my June 27-30 trip to Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. Once again, I did not spend much time at the Crazies as my focus was on those iconic parks of Wyoming (part of Yellowstone National Park is in Montana as well as Idaho. But the vast majority of this large national park is in Wyoming. Yellowstone, at 3,472 square miles, or over 2.2 million acres, is larger than the states of Rhode Island and Delaware combined. It is the second largest national park in the lower 48, with only Death Valley’s 3 million+ acres surpassing it.

My favorite place in the entire world, however, is the area about one hour south of Yellowstone. Grand Teton National Park, established in 1929, was the backdrop to one of Hollywood’s greatest movies, the 1953 film Shane starring Alan Ladd, Van Heflin and Jean Arthur. Although at 310,000 acres, this outcropping of magnificent 13,000-foot mountain peaks is dwarfed by it’s northern neighbor, I am still in a state of awe, every time I see them, at the grand job that God-almighty performed when he created them. To see my photographs of those magnificent works of God, please check out my post entitled “STARTING OVER AGAIN! The Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks, a four-part series.