Monthly Archives: December 2017

Berkeley Pit and other disasters. Within a few decades after the city was founded in 1864, Butte, Montana was known as the “Richest Hill on Earth” – a phrase that remains its motto to this day. Placer miners moving north …

I’m not certain whether I should count the ghost towns and the ringing rocks as a pair of missed sights or as three of a kind. Or whether the only one that I should really count as missed is Nevada …

Missing History. After what proved to be an unfortunately brief stop at Earthquake Lake, I resumed my journey toward Alder Gulch the home of two of Montana’s more famous “ghost towns.” (A location doesn’t need to be completely abandoned by …

A Yellowstone recap and leaving the park. Wednesday morning as I once again defrosted my windows, I couldn’t help but think that in essentially what amounted to two days, I’d seen a lot of Yellowstone National Park while, at the …