'They will see us waving from such great heights.'

Bighole Pass
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Passing through long valleys with wheat and cattle. I had to go over 2 major passes, but I try to keep in mind that every foot up is a credit earned and that will be paid back on some glorious downhill. I stopped for a rest under a willow beside the road. These are nice moments- sitting in the shade, munching on sugared peanuts and lying in the grass. No one has ever appreciated that grass like I did.

Unfortunately by the time I got back on the road, the afternoon wind was really swinging and it whipped me viscously all the way over the Big Hole Pass (elevation 7,360 ft.) and into Jackson.

lodge in Jackson
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I stayed at the Jackson Hot Springs Lodge and it may be my favorite place so far. I had a little sleeper cabin for myself, and had a lovely dinner at the restaurant and lounged in a great big chair by a fire place and finished my book. Then I had a soak in the hot springs pool.

The sun went down red in the west through the smoke of local fires and by the time I turned in, the moon rose full and red- like its mirror image, in the east. Beautiful.