The Bighorn Mountains

Making our way out of Cody and on to Rapid City, South Dakota, we went through the Bighorn National Forest and Mountains.  This first one is Heart Mountain though and very visible from Cody in the Bighorn Basin; there's some very interesting history with this mountain - it's upside down in that there is much older rock on top of younger rock.  Read all about it at Wiki if you care to, I'm going to!  It's also clearly the profile if an Indian Warrior!

We were driving through the vastness of the mountains and the Bureau of Land Management land.  All public - endless miles and miles of it!  Again the vastness of the open range was astonishing and pictures do it no justice at all.

Ahhhhh...sheep in the Bighorn Mountains!  But not Bighorn Sheep!  What the....
It was just a huge herd in the middle of nothing!  There's no houses out here, no ranch!  Quite perplexing!

But most perplexing was this awesome dog clearly running the show!  We did not see a sheep herder anywhere but who knows, they could have been up over the ridge.

     I was so glad for the zoom because this black speck amongst all the white was puzzling as well!



I took a picture of this fence because it went on and on and on and on and on for miles!  And though beautiful and decorative we could not imagine being so wealthy that you could overlap those posts by about two feet thus causing tons more material to complete the fencing for the distance it traveled!  At this point, we were beginning our descent on the other side of the Bighorn Mountains - the two sides were completely different

                                                                     Yea!! Wildlife!

 Hello beautiful moose mama!  How kind of you to position yourself so close to the road that we could spot you!  What a treat!