On 11/29/2015 9:39 PM, rbowman wrote:
On 11/29/2015 12:58 PM, Muggles wrote:
I kept covering my eyes and mumbling "WE'RE gona
DIE!!!" The friends who took me on the ride thought I was pretty funny,
but at the time I didn't think it was funny at all.
Blue Mountain is a popular recreation area on the south side of town.
There's a road to the top where the U has a little observatory and the
FS has a fire tower. It really isn't that bad a road compared to a lot
others around here, but someone manages to kill themselves every couple
of years.
http://missoulian.com/news/local/kil...d03340582.html
http://tinyurl.com/ot3owf6
Not sure why, but the story text is greyed out for me. I can't read it.
Yesterday I was hiking on one of my favorite loops and I decided to take
a little detour to look for a roadside attraction. Either I was on the
wrong slope or they finally extracted it but there has been a Subaru
Forester about 50' down from the road on a slope that required
scrambling to get up. The car was perfectly vertical, standing on its
nose propped up against the big ponderosa pine that stopped it from
going any further. There was still some junk in it including a baby
carrier. I don't recall reading about a fatality but it must have been
one hell of a ride when they missed the corner.
I've got to admit that on the bike there are places where I hug the
uphill side of the road, turn on my tunnel vision, and try not to think
what's on the other side of the narrow, rocky road. Bouncing over big
rocks on a dirt bike, you don't always go quite where you intended and I
prefer to be as far from the edge as possible.
Here are 2 pics of the trip up the mountain:
This one is at the bottom looking up at the destination. You can see
the plateau dune up a ways. The road veers off and hits some narrow
stretches on the edge of the mountain before we can actually reach the
plateau.
http://i67.tinypic.com/vfyw7p.jpg
This is a shot looking down from the dune. We can see the dry lake bed
and the chemical plant there that processes the underground water for
the minerals there.
http://i68.tinypic.com/kbbwvq.jpg
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Maggie