{"id":4421,"date":"2014-11-17T10:21:53","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T17:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/?p=4421"},"modified":"2014-11-17T12:34:07","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T19:34:07","slug":"photo-gallery-pictures-from-a-chilly-expedition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2014\/11\/photo-gallery-pictures-from-a-chilly-expedition\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo Gallery: Pictures from a chilly expedition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t<div id=\"slides-4421\" class=\"navis-slideshow\">\n\t\t\t<p class=\"slide-nav\">\n\n\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" class=\"prev\"><\/a>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" class=\"next\"><\/a>\n\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"slides_container\"><div id=\"4421-slide1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Exped-mammoth-1-of-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Exped-mammoth-1-of-1.jpg\" \/><\/a><h6>Ed Kemmick\/Last Best News <a href=\"#\" class=\"slide-permalink\">permalink<\/a><\/h6><p>How cold was it? Well, judge for yourself. I saw this anachronistic creature in Hysham.<\/p><\/div><div id=\"4421-slide2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Exped-river-1-of-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Exped-river-1-of-1.jpg\" \/><\/a><h6>Ed Kemmick\/Last Best News <a href=\"#\" class=\"slide-permalink\">permalink<\/a><\/h6><p>It was cold enough in Glendive that there was a lot more ice than open water on the Yellowstone River.<\/p><\/div><div id=\"4421-slide3\" data-src=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Exped-colorTV-1-of-1.jpg*771*517\" data-href=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Exped-colorTV-1-of-1.jpg\" \/><h6> <a href=\"#\" class=\"slide-permalink\">permalink<\/a><\/h6><p>Color TV! I really should have stayed at this motel in Terry, but I had to push on. And to be fair, a new digital sign at the motel advertised flat-screen TVs.<\/p><\/div><div id=\"4421-slide4\" data-src=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Exped-derrick-1-of-1.jpg*771*487\" data-href=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Exped-derrick-1-of-1.jpg\" \/><h6>Ed Kemmick\/Last Best News <a href=\"#\" class=\"slide-permalink\">permalink<\/a><\/h6><p>I don't know if this contraption in Terry is the world's oldest oil pumper, but I'd like to have one. Notice the wooden wheels covered with nailed-on canvas.<\/p><\/div><div id=\"4421-slide5\" data-src=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Exped-diversion-1-of-1.jpg*771*408\" data-href=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Exped-diversion-1-of-1.jpg\" \/><h6>Ed Kemmick\/Last Best News <a href=\"#\" class=\"slide-permalink\">permalink<\/a><\/h6><p>How cold was it? Just look at those icebergs above the diversion dam at the East Rosebud fishing access in Forsyth.<\/p><\/div><div id=\"4421-slide6\" data-src=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Exped-tractor-1-of-1.jpg*771*452\" data-href=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Exped-tractor-1-of-1.jpg\" \/><h6>Ed Kemmick\/Last Best News <a href=\"#\" class=\"slide-permalink\">permalink<\/a><\/h6><p>Remember that old codger in the movie who rode a lawnmower across the country? This is what he uses when he takes the family. Forsyth.<\/p><\/div><div id=\"4421-slide7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Exped-barns12-1-of-1.jpg*771*494\" data-href=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Exped-barns12-1-of-1.jpg\" \/><h6>Ed Kemmick\/Last Best News <a href=\"#\" class=\"slide-permalink\">permalink<\/a><\/h6><p>I'm guessing these are the old city shops in Rosebud, but I still love the labels. Almost made me want to go looking for Barn No. 3.<\/p><\/div><div id=\"4421-slide8\" data-src=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Exped-snowfield-1-of-1.jpg*771*514\" data-href=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Exped-snowfield-1-of-1.jpg\" \/><h6>Ed Kemmick\/Last Best News <a href=\"#\" class=\"slide-permalink\">permalink<\/a><\/h6><p>It was so cold in Hysham that they were planting snow.<\/p><\/div><div id=\"4421-slide9\" data-src=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Exped-gothic-1-of-1-771x506.jpg*771*506\" data-href=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Exped-gothic-1-of-1.jpg\" \/><h6>Ed Kemmick\/Last Best News <a href=\"#\" class=\"slide-permalink\">permalink<\/a><\/h6><p>Wibaux gothic.<\/p><\/div><div id=\"4421-slide10\" data-src=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Exped-doorway-1-of-1.jpg*771*470\" data-href=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Exped-doorway-1-of-1.jpg\" \/><h6>Ed Kemmick\/Last Best News <a href=\"#\" class=\"slide-permalink\">permalink<\/a><\/h6><p>This looks like an old school in Rosebud, or maybe a government building. I'd like to know the story behind it. Anyone?<\/p><\/div><div id=\"4421-slide11\"><a href=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Exped-snomos-1-of-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Exped-snomos-1-of-1.jpg\" \/><\/a><h6>Ed Kemmick\/Last Best News <a href=\"#\" class=\"slide-permalink\">permalink<\/a><\/h6><p>It was so cold in Miles City that  all of these snowmobiles appeared to be inoperable.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><script>jQuery( document ).ready( function() { loadSlideshow( 4421, 'https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2014\/11\/photo-gallery-pictures-from-a-chilly-expedition\/', 11 ) } );<\/script>\n<p>My weekend travels took me to the eastern edge of the state, placing me about as far from both coasts as it&#8217;s possible to be, but I still ended up getting seasick.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I was in Glendive, on the old highway bridge that is now open only to pedestrians, shooting photos of the iced-up river below. I walked out about to the middle of the old steel-truss bridge, right above one of the enormous concrete piers holding it up, and looked down.<\/p>\n<p>I was on the downstream side of the bridge, and where the pier met the water there was a knife-like slab of ice, with narrow channels of water flowing on either side of it. That flowing water and the stationary pier created a powerful illusion, the sense that I was standing on the prow of a ship watching its forward edge plowing through the water at maybe 10 or 15 miles an hour. (I&#8217;d use knots if I knew the calculation.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had inner ear problems ever since I punctured my eardrum in high school, so I should have known better, but I couldn&#8217;t take my eyes off the water and that striking optical illusion. Until I started feeling distinctly queasy\u2014so queasy that I get a little dizzy right now just recalling it.<\/p>\n<p>I staggered away from the middle of the bridge, trying to get my legs back under me, when I saw two guys in their 20s taking pictures off the bridge with their smart phones. I said hello and one of them said, referring to the river thick with ice floes, &#8220;We don&#8217;t see anything like this where we&#8217;re from.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"well\"><div class=\"dfad dfad_pos_1 dfad_first\" id=\"_ad_652\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/mjhWkW\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/201703_capeair_variable.jpg\" alt=\"CapreAir_Variable\" width=\"510\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18069\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div>They were from Austin, had been up here for about six weeks. He said they were shocked by how quickly the beautiful fall had turned into a cold winter. I told him we were shocked, too, that the quick transition this early in the year was not entirely normal. I also told them about the optical illusion, and as I turned to go they were making their way to the middle of the bridge.<\/p>\n<p>I thought of sticking around to hear their impressions, but it was just too danged cold. Maybe they&#8217;ve got a good story for their friends and families in Texas: saw an iced-over river in Montana in mid-November and got seasick on the same day.<\/p>\n<p>As for the rest of my travels, I don&#8217;t want to spill the beans until the story appears, probably tomorrow. If anyone had asked on the road, I was going to say I was working for the New York Times, which asked me to find and interview Herb Glimt, a farmer residing near Hodges, who was reported to be the only person in North America who had not yet looked at Internet photos of Kim Kardashian&#8217;s rear end. Luckily, no one asked.<\/p>\n<p>Generally when I travel for Last Best News I avoid the interstate, but even I-94 had some dicey stretches this weekend, so my off-the-interstate forays were relatively rare and short. The longest detour had me following Cartersville Road between Rosebud and Forsyth.<\/p>\n<p>I had hoped to see what remained of the towns of Cartersville and Orinoco, both of which are listed in my DeLorme atlas, but I saw nothing resembling the remains of a town. If the wind hadn&#8217;t been howling something fierce across the ice-cold prairie, I might have gotten out and looked around more. I&#8217;ll have to look again one of these days.<\/p>\n<p>(<strong>Update<\/strong>: Bingo! Kim McRae sent me <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1xflZUP\">this wonderful video<\/a> about Cartersville.)<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I did come back with a few photos, which are included in the gallery above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My weekend travels took me to the eastern edge of the state, placing me about as far from both coasts as it&#8217;s possible to be, but I still ended up getting seasick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[747],"tags":[1647,1016,1645,496,1648,1649,1646],"class_list":["post-4421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-galleries","tag-cartersville","tag-forsyth","tag-hysham","tag-miles-city","tag-orinoco","tag-rosebud","tag-wibaux","prominence-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}