Great Falls MT
I think I said we were not going to do anything while here. I lied. This ares has a lot of history connected with it.
Lewis and Clark's trail came directly through here. There is an interpretive center dedicated for them. We had to visit it.
On of the problems Lewis and Clark had was the five waterfalls. At the first one, they decided to go around them. The problem was the river bank was about 150 feet high and 70 to 75 degrees straight up. They built wooden wheels for the boats and muscled them up the bank.
There was a section that showed how the indians made their bridles with a straight piece of braided rawhide. Cathy had to try it.
Next we visited two of the falls. Both have hydro-electric power plants and dams there now.
so are as spectacular as when L & C first saw them.
This one is Black Eagle.
Then to Great Falls, the first one L & C en countered. You can see the dams above the falls and the power plant to the right.
To the left is the river bank they had to "portage".
Next stop, Great Springs State Park. A strange thing happen here, The smallest river, (according to The Guiness Book of Records Roe River, 210 feet long) empties into the longest river in the US, the Missouri.
Great Springs feeds the Roe River. You can see the river in the center.
And the complete river with its only bridge.
We are leaving tomorrow and this is what we will miss the most.
We had sunsets like this every evening through our windshield.
Tomorrow night our view will be a WalMart parking lot in Sheridan, WY
Lewis and Clark's trail came directly through here. There is an interpretive center dedicated for them. We had to visit it.
On of the problems Lewis and Clark had was the five waterfalls. At the first one, they decided to go around them. The problem was the river bank was about 150 feet high and 70 to 75 degrees straight up. They built wooden wheels for the boats and muscled them up the bank.
There was a section that showed how the indians made their bridles with a straight piece of braided rawhide. Cathy had to try it.
Next we visited two of the falls. Both have hydro-electric power plants and dams there now.
so are as spectacular as when L & C first saw them.
This one is Black Eagle.
Then to Great Falls, the first one L & C en countered. You can see the dams above the falls and the power plant to the right.
To the left is the river bank they had to "portage".
Next stop, Great Springs State Park. A strange thing happen here, The smallest river, (according to The Guiness Book of Records Roe River, 210 feet long) empties into the longest river in the US, the Missouri.
Great Springs feeds the Roe River. You can see the river in the center.
And the complete river with its only bridge.
We are leaving tomorrow and this is what we will miss the most.
We had sunsets like this every evening through our windshield.
Tomorrow night our view will be a WalMart parking lot in Sheridan, WY
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