Day 17 - Idaho Falls to Missoula
1 June 2004
Highlights:
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 | Idaho Falls Idaho Falls (Idaho, USA) |
 | Big Southern Butte Route 20 west (Idaho, USA) Well if you're going to have the only mountain in a hundred miles, you need to cover it with telecommunications towers! |
 | A whole lotta nuthin Route 20 west (Idaho, USA) And I thought Montana was supposed to be big sky country |
 | Big sky country Route 20 west (Idaho, USA) |
 | Craters of the Moon National Monument sign Craters of the Moon National Monument (Idaho, USA) |
 | Lava flow Craters of the Moon National Monument (Idaho, USA) |
 | USA volcanic hotspot model Craters of the Moon National Monument (Idaho, USA) This shows the very cool swathe across the country etched by a subterranean volcanic hotspot |
 | North Crater flow trail Craters of the Moon National Monument (Idaho, USA) |
 | Textured rock Craters of the Moon National Monument (Idaho, USA) You mean it's not still liquid? |
 | North Crater flow trail Craters of the Moon National Monument (Idaho, USA) |
 | Textured rock Craters of the Moon National Monument (Idaho, USA) Swiss cheese rocks |
 | Textured rock Craters of the Moon National Monument (Idaho, USA) |
 | Squeeze ups Craters of the Moon National Monument (Idaho, USA) Volcanic pimples! |
 | Textured rock Craters of the Moon National Monument (Idaho, USA) |
 | Wildflowers Craters of the Moon National Monument (Idaho, USA) |
 | Tiny flower Craters of the Moon National Monument (Idaho, USA) These little guys were all flower and no plant |
 | Witch tree Craters of the Moon National Monument (Idaho, USA) The deformaties were caused by a parasite. The national park service in their wisdome killed all the infected trees and then realised it was probably a co-evolved organism that would have been ok to leave. |
 | Inferno Cone Craters of the Moon National Monument (Idaho, USA) |
 | Mum climbing the Inferno Cone Craters of the Moon National Monument (Idaho, USA) |
 | Spatter Cones from Inferno Cone Craters of the Moon National Monument (Idaho, USA) |
 | Pioneer Mountains from Inferno Cone Craters of the Moon National Monument (Idaho, USA) |
 | Spatter Cones from Inferno Cone Craters of the Moon National Monument (Idaho, USA) |
 | View from the top of Inferno Cone Craters of the Moon National Monument (Idaho, USA) |
 | Textured rock Craters of the Moon National Monument (Idaho, USA) A camera just doesn't capture the colours in these rocks |
 | Textured rock Craters of the Moon National Monument (Idaho, USA) |
 | Textured rock Craters of the Moon National Monument (Idaho, USA) |
 | Textured rock Craters of the Moon National Monument (Idaho, USA) |
 | Top of a lava tunnel Craters of the Moon National Monument (Idaho, USA) |
 | Textured rock Craters of the Moon National Monument (Idaho, USA) |
 | Lava tunnel Craters of the Moon National Monument (Idaho, USA) |
 | Little stalactites of lava Craters of the Moon National Monument (Idaho, USA) This was once liquid rock that dried on the roof in little driplets |
 | Little stalactites of lava Craters of the Moon National Monument (Idaho, USA) |
 | Lava tunnel Craters of the Moon National Monument (Idaho, USA) |
 | Lava tunnel Craters of the Moon National Monument (Idaho, USA) |
 | Lava flow Craters of the Moon National Monument (Idaho, USA) You really needed to see this in stereo to see how textured the landscape was |
 | Arco number wall sign Arco (Idaho, USA) |
 | Arco number wall Arco (Idaho, USA) |
 | Irrigation systems Route 93 north (Idaho, USA) I wanted to get a shot of the irrigation systems that were everywhere in the farmlands |
 | Lost River Range Route 93 north (Idaho, USA) |
 | Lost River Range Route 93 north (Idaho, USA) |
 | Lost River Range Route 93 north (Idaho, USA) One of these, not sure which was the highest mountain in Idaho |
 | Ellis Idaho Post Office Ellis (Idaho, USA) We stopped at this post office because dad was looking for a Houdini stamp, but they were closed |
 | Idaho landscape - Salmon River canyons Route 93 north (Idaho, USA) |
 | A long row of letter boxes Near Salmon (Idaho, USA) Gotta be easy work for the posties in this area :) |
 | Beaverhead Mountains Route 93 north (Idaho, USA) |
 | Welcome to Montana sign Route 93 north (Montana, USA) |
 | Deer Route 93 north (Montana, USA) |
 | Log cabin Route 93 north (Montana, USA) Also in this valley were like a dozen log cabin manufacturing companies, but by the time I thought of taking a photo of one, they'd stopped passing by |
 | Massive motel room Brook St Motor Inn Missoula (Montana, USA) This was the biggest motel room we stayed in |