On The Move

As the weather started getting cold up north, we knew it was time to move and avoid snow. We almost did that.

We went down through the Bitterroot Valley. As we went over Lost Trail Pass, this is what we saw.

We went to the Big Hole Battlefield. Bob had been there when he was real young and I had been there around the time I was in Junior High. Besides being cold, things have changed some.

There is now a visitors center and trails to hike to the area where the Indians were camped and to where the army retreated. There are also tepee poles set up for lodges.

The area where the army had retreated to has very few 'old' trees. When I had been there previously, you could see marks on the trees from bullets. Those trees are gone and there are not as many trees as before. They do have the trenches marked and cleared.

This is the stream that the army crossed when they entered the Indian village. It is about twenty feet across.

We also saw these in the area to which the army retreated.
We went to Rexburg and spent a couple nights there. We met up with two of the guys from home who are in college there. It was great to see them. The morning we left there, Bob had to clear about one and a half inches of wet snow off the top of the truck. The roads were wet but not slick.

We went on to Salt Lake and went to some places there. It was warmer here but there was snow on the mountains.

We spent the evening, after we arrived, at the conference center taking the tour of it. Pictures just don't show how large it is. The statistics on it are something.

We also took in Temple Square, the Lion House, Brigham Young's home, and went to the temple. The temple is beautiful inside. It is understandable why it took them so long to build.

Finally we got to warmer weather. But that will go in the next blog.