The weather is warming up to the 80's during the day, but most nights are in the upper 40's. On Friday, Allan drove into Butte to visit the mining museum. After hearing what he did (going underground)boy am I glad I didn't go with him. He really enjoyed his tours.
One of the stops was an old brothel. Let a guy out one day on his own and look where he goes. lol. They aren't in business now. This is a steel mast above the Orphan Girl Mine.
They use cables and winches to raise and lower the man cars and material skips up and down the mine shaft. Some of the shafts extended several miles below the surface.
Allan did not go that deep, but walked down into the first layer of the mine and saw how they drilled, shored and carted the materials out of the mine. It was very interesting , but he am glad he was not a miner. Twenty three hundred miners lost their lives in the Butte area while the mines were in operation. They also had a reconstructed village from the early mining days at the museum. Allan drove through town and photographed the Copper King Mansion.
He went to the Berkeley Copper Pit mine that ceased operation and is now filling with water. The water is contaminated and they are working at removing the contaminates. Butte and the surrounding area is filled with historical structures and events that Allan would like to explore more thoroughly in the future.
Saturday was a travel day. I-90 passed the Bozeman area.
We were impressed by the looks as we drove by. Maybe some day we will get to stay here and visit more in depth. We stopped at the Prairie Dog Town just off the interstate.
Allan and I had been there before. There were not as many Prairie Dogs out. It may have been because it was so warm or I had heard that the prairie dogs had come down with some kind of disease and many died. We pulled into the Columbus City Park to stay for the night.
It is dry camping with no dump station. The grass needed mowing, but it was on a nice river and we got a good shady campsite. The charge is free but they ask for donations.
It was a hot day and on the weekend so there were many people rafting the river and enjoying the cool water.
We drove through some beautiful countryside on our way to Red Lodge, Mt. on Sunday.
They had a big biker gathering this weekend.
All of the campgrounds and motels were full. We stayed at Perry's RV Park in the upper area rather than down by the river. We had a view of a pasture of horses and saw two bucks and a doe. After we got settled in and had supper, we drove outside of town for the big pig races. There were lots of people there, mostly bikers but it was something different to see.
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