Taking a Drive Up the Beartooth Highway

Here it is Monday morning already. Time seems to be flying by. On Thursday last week Lonn, Mike’s son took us out to hear Elks bugling. I didn’t show you the pictures so here they are.

Silhouette of a nice size bull Elk


A bull Elk with a few cows


A small herd of Elk that we heard bugling


I just liked this picture


This pond and two cabins made for a nice picture


This was the view from the cabins


Gina snapped this sunset as we were heading back down

Friday and Saturday I helped Mike and Gina was learning about quilting from Janna. Both days were quiet and relaxing for us. This past week has been emotional for us and we needed this quiet time. Thank you Mike and Janna.

Sunday morning we rode up to Mike & Janna’s cabin. Janna asked us if we wanted to take a drive today up the Beartooth Highway. We both said we’d love to. So we went back home and they picked us up a few minutes later and off we went. Our first stop was at the Grizzly Bar & Cafe located in Roscoe, Montana. It’s been around for a long time and is favorite stopping point for people driving the Beartooth highway. We had lunch and then we continued on up the Beartooth highway. We were on our way to climbing almost 5,400 feet to reach Beartooth pass which is at 10, 947 feet. The day was beautiful and the views were just magnificent. For an unplanned day, we enjoyed a great lunch with very dear friends and could not have planned a more perfect day. Thank you Mike and Janna for driving us through one of the prettiest drives in America. Here are a few pictures we took along the Beartooth Highway.

Mike, Janna, & myself outside of the Grizzly Bar & Cafe


A beautiful valley, You're looking down about 4500 feet
(notice the gold color, fall has arrived)


One of many lakes nestled in along the highway


That point is know as Beartooth Peak


That is snow and another little lake


The scenery was beautiful


Another smaller valley, none the less still beautiful

Gina and I have been blessed with such good friends while traveling and thank Our Heavenly Father for each of them everyday. We are extremely blessed. Our time here in Montana is coming to an end. The one item that has been and I guess will always be hard for us is telling our friends “we’ll see y’all down the road”. We don’t really every say goodbye since it will always be our intent to see them again. We’ll start making our preparations to drive east to the Black Hills of South Dakota to see Mom & Pop’s. We have missed them, as we know they have missed us too.


Gina & I hope everyone has a pleasant and wonderful day, enjoying what our Father has so graciously blessed us with.