{"id":246,"date":"2018-08-29T22:19:02","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T22:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lessintents.com\/?p=246"},"modified":"2018-08-29T22:19:02","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T22:19:02","slug":"day-42-sunday-8-19-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lessintents.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/29\/day-42-sunday-8-19-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 42 \u2013 Sunday 8\/19\/18"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tripometer \u2013 5029 mi<\/p>\n

Gas Gauge \u2013 398.417 gal<\/p>\n

Location \u2013 Diamond S RV Park, Ronan, MT<\/p>\n

Lodging \u2013 $36<\/p>\n

Cans of OFF \u2013 4<\/p>\n

A Smoky Drive.<\/p>\n

We drove from Livingston to Ronan, MT today. On the way we passed through Butte and stopped along the way to see what was reported to be a ghost town. Not really a picture taking day but we both got a big kick out of Mentzer\u2019s Used Cow Lot.<\/p>\n

Butte was really interesting. I think we both were aware of Butte\u2019s mining past but neither of us knew the extent. As always, we travel with Google Maps up and running to give basic directions. We were floored when we noticed the sheer size of the mine north of Butte. (Go ahead and look it up \u2013 it\u2019s as big as the entire city.) This same mine has the distinct feature of containing \u2018The Berkeley Pit<\/a>\u2019 \u2013 An old open pit copper mine so polluted that it has a pH of ~2.5 and is filled with so much heavy metals from the surrounding soil that it has been known to wipe out entire flocks of birds that have landed there on migration. They now have horns in place to scare off the birds.<\/p>\n

The ghost town \u2013 Bearmouth, MT was a complete bust. There was only one small shack remaining in town. We tossed around the idea of travelling up a dirt road to see Garnet, MT \u2013 an intact ghost town just North of Bearmouth but towing the trailer up one lane dirt roads has gotten us in some difficulty already that we don\u2019t want to repeat. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

We pulled into a nice little RV Park fairly early in the evening and enjoyed dinner and a few episodes of ‘The Walking Dead’ in our fully hooked up trailer. This is the first time this trip that we’ve had a full hookup (electricity, water, & sewer<\/strong><\/span>). Its a rare luxury on the road.<\/p>\n

Place Name Soup: <\/b>After hours of intensive study we believe there is a pattern to naming roads, creeks, trails, etc. in the Rocky Mountains. Here\u2019s our hypothesis \u2013 Pick three words from the following list, string them together and voila(!) you have your place name:<\/p>\n

Animals \u2013 Bear, Wolf, Moose, Elk, Deer, Trout, Beaver<\/p>\n

Minerals \u2013 Copper, Gold, Silver, Iron, Coal<\/p>\n

Nature Related \u2013 Rocky, Timber, Pine, Ridge, Trail, Path, River, Creek, Lodge, Gulch, Range, Prairie, Mountain, Hill, Run, Lake<\/p>\n

Other \u2013 Vista, View, Lost, Old\/New<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a few for example:<\/p>\n