Monthly Archives: November 2017

Heartless Mountain Part 1

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Heart Mountain heartless. On Monday, 8 December 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt went before a joint session of Congress to seek a declaration of war. In his address, he called 7 December 1941, the day of the Japanese attack on …

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Morning Ashes and a Spiteful Love

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I arrived in Jackson late in the afternoon of 2 September and, as you saw in the photos I posted previously, while my first views of the Tetons were impressive, they were breathtaking mainly because the ash laden air complicated …

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Three big Tétons – part 2

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Whose fault is it? Since the Tetons are an upfaulted mountain block, I thought it might be worth taking a look at the anatomy of faults. Simply speaking, a fault is a zone in the earth’s crust where the rocks on …

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Three big Tétons

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My report on the Tetons will be among the shortest posts of this trip. As shown on the map below, the remainder of the drive from Fort Washakie to Jackson follows a straightforward route – essentially Route 287 to left …

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Visiting Sacagawea – or someone else

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A journey’s end but not the end of the journey. As they continued across Wyoming and into Idaho, Sacagawea, having demonstrated both her value and loyalty, repeated her role as an interpreter especially during council meetings between Indian chiefs and …

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