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The Beartooth Highway, otherwise known as US Highway 212 or, sometimes as the Beartooth All American Road, was a depression era 68.7mile (110km) project completed in 1936. The road which begins and ends in Montana also travels through north west Wyoming and through the Custer Gallatin National Forest (Montana), the Beartooth-Absoroka Wilderness and the Shoshone National Forest in Wyoming.
US Highway 212 has been described by some writers as America's most scenic road although in my personal experience I'd put 48km Trail Ridge Road (12,183 feet) and Independence Pass (12,095 feet) between Twin Lakes and Aspen in Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park as its equal but the Million Dollar Highway, also in Colorado, in autumn, would be my pick for America's most scenic Road.
The terminus towns on either end of US Highway 212 are Red Lodge in the east and Cooke City (not really a city) at the north eastern gateway to Yellowstone National Park.
In between there are no shelters or commercial buildings apart from the Top of the World Store, just before the turnoff to the Chief Joseph Byway which heads south to Cody.
A summer ski area known as 'The Beartooth Basin Ski Area' can be found near the Beartooth Pass and Twin Lakes on the Montana-Wyoming Border (45th Parallel North). It operates seasonally when the road is open from late May through to early July with just two Platter Poma Lifts. It's the only ski area in North America that operates in summer
Quite a few very scenic lookout pull off points exist along the Beartooth Highway. The road is well armour-railed due to the sheer drop offs on some portions along the road as it climbs up the Rock Creek Canyon ridge from Red Lodge.
When you reach the 45th Parallel North you're in Wyoming and near US Highway 212's highest point, Beartooth Pass. Here the road reaches 10,947 feet (3,334m).
The landscape at these high altitudes is a vast open treeless tundra plateau, often heavily snow covered. Even higher mountains to the west reach in excess of 12,000 feet. For some context, Beartooth Pass is about 1,000 feet above the Shoshone National Forest treeline.
We travelled US Highway 212 in the morning, east to west, as is recommended, from Red Lodge to the Top of the World Store before turning off down the equally scenic Chief Joseph Byway to Cody for a few days after which we returned via the Chief Joseph Byway to Cooke City and on into Yellowstone National Park.
The Beartooth Highway, built in just 4 years in the mid 1930's is one of the highest sealed highways in the USA and apart from its scenic beauty it's remembered by travellers for the large number of hairpin bends, or as Americans call them - Switchbacks. It may also be remembered for its danger.
The road surface itself is excellent and the road is wide and very safe to drive in good weather conditions however at these altitudes unpredictable blizzards and heavy snowfall can come on at any time and travellers can get snowed in. Great care must be exercised to check the weather and road conditions before heading across this road.
Due to precarious road conditions, heavy snowfall and unpredictable blizzards the Beartooth Highway is usually closed in Winter, from October till around the last Monday in May (Memorial Day).
All USA Trip 2018 Images HERE
At an elevation of 11,915 ft. the Bears Tooth is the imposing rock spire seen from the famous Beartooth Pass highway, which connects the town of Red Lodge on the east flank of the Beartooth Range with the NE entrance of Yellowstone NP. The entire mountain range was named after it, which originated as an English translation from the name given to these mountains by the Crow Indian tribe.
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The Beartooth Highway, otherwise known as US Highway 212 or, sometimes as the Beartooth All American Road, was a depression era 68.7mile (110km) project completed in 1936. The road which begins and ends in Montana also travels through north west Wyoming and through the Custer Gallatin National Forest (Montana), the Beartooth-Absoroka Wilderness and the Shoshone National Forest in Wyoming.
US Highway 212 has been described by some writers as America's most scenic road although in my personal experience I'd put 48km Trail Ridge Road (12,183 feet) and Independence Pass (12,095 feet) between Twin Lakes and Aspen in Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park as its equal but the Million Dollar Highway, also in Colorado, in autumn, would be my pick for America's most scenic Road.
The terminus towns on either end of US Highway 212 are Red Lodge in the east and Cooke City (not really a city) at the north eastern gateway to Yellowstone National Park.
In between there are no shelters or commercial buildings apart from the Top of the World Store, just before the turnoff to the Chief Joseph Byway which heads south to Cody.
A summer ski area known as 'The Beartooth Basin Ski Area' can be found near the Beartooth Pass and Twin Lakes on the Montana-Wyoming Border (45th Parallel North). It operates seasonally when the road is open from late May through to early July with just two Platter Poma Lifts. It's the only ski area in North America that operates in summer
Quite a few very scenic lookout pull off points exist along the Beartooth Highway. The road is well armour-railed due to the sheer drop offs on some portions along the road as it climbs up the Rock Creek Canyon ridge from Red Lodge.
When you reach the 45th Parallel North you're in Wyoming and near US Highway 212's highest point, Beartooth Pass. Here the road reaches 10,947 feet (3,334m).
The landscape at these high altitudes is a vast open treeless tundra plateau, often heavily snow covered. Even higher mountains to the west reach in excess of 12,000 feet. For some context, Beartooth Pass is about 1,000 feet above the Shoshone National Forest treeline.
We travelled US Highway 212 in the morning, east to west, as is recommended, from Red Lodge to the Top of the World Store before turning off down the equally scenic Chief Joseph Byway to Cody for a few days after which we returned via the Chief Joseph Byway to Cooke City and on into Yellowstone National Park.
The Beartooth Highway, built in just 4 years in the mid 1930's is one of the highest sealed highways in the USA and apart from its scenic beauty it's remembered by travellers for the large number of hairpin bends, or as Americans call them - Switchbacks. It may also be remembered for its danger.
The road surface itself is excellent and the road is wide and very safe to drive in good weather conditions however at these altitudes unpredictable blizzards and heavy snowfall can come on at any time and travellers can get snowed in. Great care must be exercised to check the weather and road conditions before heading across this road.
Due to precarious road conditions, heavy snowfall and unpredictable blizzards the Beartooth Highway is usually closed in Winter, from October till around the last Monday in May (Memorial Day).
All USA Trip 2018 Images HERE
- www.kevin-palmer.com - The whole mountain range is named after this formation: The Bears Tooth. It can be viewed in the distance from near Beartooth Pass.
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The Beartooth Highway, otherwise known as US Highway 212 or, sometimes as the Beartooth All American Road, was a depression era 68.7mile (110km) project completed in 1936. The road which begins and ends in Montana also travels through north west Wyoming and through the Custer Gallatin National Forest (Montana), the Beartooth-Absoroka Wilderness and the Shoshone National Forest in Wyoming.
US Highway 212 has been described by some writers as America's most scenic road although in my personal experience I'd put 48km Trail Ridge Road (12,183 feet) and Independence Pass (12,095 feet) between Twin Lakes and Aspen in Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park as its equal but the Million Dollar Highway, also in Colorado, in autumn, would be my pick for America's most scenic Road.
The terminus towns on either end of US Highway 212 are Red Lodge in the east and Cooke City (not really a city) at the north eastern gateway to Yellowstone National Park.
In between there are no shelters or commercial buildings apart from the Top of the World Store, just before the turnoff to the Chief Joseph Byway which heads south to Cody.
A summer ski area known as 'The Beartooth Basin Ski Area' can be found near the Beartooth Pass and Twin Lakes on the Montana-Wyoming Border (45th Parallel North). It operates seasonally when the road is open from late May through to early July with just two Platter Poma Lifts. It's the only ski area in North America that operates in summer
Quite a few very scenic lookout pull off points exist along the Beartooth Highway. The road is well armour-railed due to the sheer drop offs on some portions along the road as it climbs up the Rock Creek Canyon ridge from Red Lodge.
When you reach the 45th Parallel North you're in Wyoming and near US Highway 212's highest point, Beartooth Pass. Here the road reaches 10,947 feet (3,334m).
The landscape at these high altitudes is a vast open treeless tundra plateau, often heavily snow covered. Even higher mountains to the west reach in excess of 12,000 feet. For some context, Beartooth Pass is about 1,000 feet above the Shoshone National Forest treeline.
We travelled US Highway 212 in the morning, east to west, as is recommended, from Red Lodge to the Top of the World Store before turning off down the equally scenic Chief Joseph Byway to Cody for a few days after which we returned via the Chief Joseph Byway to Cooke City and on into Yellowstone National Park.
The Beartooth Highway, built in just 4 years in the mid 1930's is one of the highest sealed highways in the USA and apart from its scenic beauty it's remembered by travellers for the large number of hairpin bends, or as Americans call them - Switchbacks. It may also be remembered for its danger.
The road surface itself is excellent and the road is wide and very safe to drive in good weather conditions however at these altitudes unpredictable blizzards and heavy snowfall can come on at any time and travellers can get snowed in. Great care must be exercised to check the weather and road conditions before heading across this road.
Due to precarious road conditions, heavy snowfall and unpredictable blizzards the Beartooth Highway is usually closed in Winter, from October till around the last Monday in May (Memorial Day).
All USA Trip 2018 Images HERE
From about 10,500' above sea level in my little 85 HP Luscombe 8E with the window open, of course. Outside temperature was somewhere less than zero Fahrenheit. On the horizon is the summit of Denali (Mt. McKinley), about 10,000 ' higher than I am. In the immediate foreground is the formation known as "Broken Tooth"; a lower, sharp ridge connects it with "Bear's Tooth" which is connected via a sharp saddle to "Mooses Tooth".
I have a new mushroom field guide because the woods are full of fungus right now. This is about as big as your hand, and looks like little icicles. It was growing on a dead maple tree. I read that it is edible, great sauteed with a little butter and it tastes like lobster. I should go back to these woods...
The Bearstooth is in Carbon Co. MT. It is 11,000'. This photo was taken from the Bearstooth Hwy at a pullout in Park Co. WY July 24, 2015, looking North.
I believe the part of the peak seen to the left (West) is Medicine Mt 12,548', and the peak to the right (East) is Mt Rearguard 12,204'.
Ice.
No props. No embellishments.
Untouched.
Out of context.
On a river, in the night.
From my imagination.
If these snow and ice formations resemble icebergs, it is because they were floating on and frozen to the bottom of the Bow River in Alberta.
My tripod was completely submerged for most of these shots; the water was almost touching the camera. Most exposure times were between 80 and 120 seconds. The air temperature was approximately 4 C. The winter sky was red with few clouds.
The rapidity with which ice builds and melts seems random. Yet there is incredibly complex order. We cannot mathematically predict it, but year to year, place to place, ice looks the same. Looking closer, every part is changing moment to moment like nowhere else. I find that fascinating.
Studying the ice up close was a surreal experience. These pictures show the stillness. They do not capture the noise of the city fading at night, nor do they let you hear the murmurs of a river pressing under ice, the quiet brushing of snow falling down, or the tinkle of ice coming free in the current. Those are my memories of the night.
I know not everyone likes snow and ice, but I hope you find these photos at least strange if not interesting.
"Cathedral Grove holds many wonders one of which is the Bears Tooth mushroom which grows on fallen hardwood in the grove every year. It's like a spectacular crystal!" - Lois Lecavalier, 2015 myPQB Story Contest
"Peace in the air. Quiet on the summit. The sky glows as the sun drags the darkness away."
Beartooth Mountain and Bears Tooth seen from above September Morn Lake, Beartooth Mountains, Montana
Coral Tooth Mushroom “crab” cakes. One of the beautiful Hericiums we found on our Sunday afternoon hike, also known as Bear’s Head tooth fungus and by several other names. This mushroom is in the Lion’s Mane family, and has been compared in both flavour and texture to lobster. It carries a lot of moisture so dry sautéing is necessary to remove the moisture for this purpose. After a few minutes in the pan with some crushed pepper, oregano and garlic, it was roughly chopped and added to a mixing bowl along with finely chopped red onion, leeks, green peppers, crumbled goat feta, crushed fresh garlic, grated yam, nutritional yeast, chicken of the woods powder, a tablespoon of flour and an egg to hold it all together. Mixed well, and shaped into patties, each one was rolled in Panko crumbs. In the fridge overnight to allow the flavours to sit, these will be gently pan fried tomorrow and served with a whipped Black Garlic & Preserved Lemon Aioli and a big green salad for dinner #hericium #wildfoodlove #lionsmane #fungi #crabcakes #sulphurshelf #laetiporussulphureus #foraging #eatwild #wildforaging #inthewoods #mycology #nourishing #wholefoods #nutrition #coraltoothfungus #myconerd #bearstooth #wildfood #seasonaleating
A beautiful white coral fungus that grows on trees or rotting logs. It is edible and supposedly tastes like lobster.
Bears Tooth viewed from Beartooth Pass along Beartooth Highway, Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming, USA
Wild foraged Bear’s Tooth Mushroom (in the Hericium/Lion’s Mane family) filled Tibetan steamed Momo dumplings. The filling was quick sautéed Hericium, some dried Matsutake, leeks, cabbage, green onion, garlic, ginger and Garam Masala. I made the filling last night to sit in the fridge overnight so the flavours could settle, and the dough came together rather quickly. In an unbelievably wild DNA event, I ended up with a child who does not possess the wild mushroom appreciation gene, and even though I minced them finely and added other veggies, after two bites, she looked at me, and with absolute horror announced, “ Mom- there are MUSHROOMS in here. This better not be the shaggy one we picked the other day!” promptly pushing her plate away and opting to eat an avocado for dinner instead. #momlife #wildmushrooms #foraging #wildforaging #hericium #hericiumcoralloides #lionsmanemushroom #bearstooth #fungus #mycology #inthewoods #nourishing #wholefoods #momodumplings
This Was Before They Expanded Moose's Tooth, Northern Lights IPA Is My Choice. This Was Taken W/ A Simple P&S Olympus.
Wild foraged Bear’s Tooth Mushroom (in the Hericium/Lion’s Mane family) filled Tibetan steamed Momo dumplings. The filling was quick sautéed Hericium, some dried Matsutake, leeks, cabbage, green onion, garlic, ginger and Garam Masala. I made the filling last night to sit in the fridge overnight so the flavours could settle, and the dough came together rather quickly. In an unbelievably wild DNA event, I ended up with a child who does not possess the wild mushroom appreciation gene, and even though I minced them finely and added other veggies, after two bites, she looked at me, and with absolute horror announced, “ Mom- there are MUSHROOMS in here. This better not be the shaggy one we picked the other day!” promptly pushing her plate away and opting to eat an avocado for dinner instead. #momlife #wildmushrooms #foraging #wildforaging #hericium #hericiumcoralloides #lionsmanemushroom #bearstooth #fungus #mycology #inthewoods #nourishing #wholefoods #momodumplings
Bears Tooth viewed from Beartooth Pass along Beartooth Highway, Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming, USA
Bears Tooth viewed from Beartooth Pass along Beartooth Highway, Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming, USA
This female was photographed in a boggy meadow across from Long Lake along the Bearstooth Hwy in Park Co. WY July 24, 2015. I love the trinomial of this bug. Ursa means bear and dentis is tooth....so how appropriate.