Playing along with the Fuzz-o-matic over at Fuzzygalore.com
C C C Cold morning on the Chief Joseph highway
After waking up in Cody, we headed up and over the Chief Joseph Highway on our way into the North Entrance of Yellowstone. A few bad slides had the Beartooth closed, so we chose a route that headed us up into Cooke City, MT. The Chief Joseph delivered us a road covered in snow and ice, low 20s temps, and an exciting and scary trip through the pass. *Crunch* *Pop* *Crackle* *sludge* were all we heard as we made our way over solid ice as the road snaked back and forth, up and down through the early morning shadows. Once on the other side, we stopped to heat our hands on our exhaust, wind down from the nervous excitement of the pass just finished, and to enjoy a brief glance at a beautiful morning sky.
That seems like it must’ve taken place in a whole other lifetime, now. If i close my eyes, i can still remember standing there on the side of the road with you when the lady in the pickup gave us a warning about the road being covered in snow. I so wish we’d stopped to take at least one photograph of the snow covered road.