Looking towards the Jocko
Christine March 6th, 2008
This is a glance looking up into the Jocko Valley from the Mission side. I took it two days ago when we were out walking east of our house. The sky has a definitive look of Spring about it, and the colors are softening with the advancing light. Most of the mountains and lakes in this direction belong to the Confederated Tribes and on until the lands meet up with US Forest. There is a very rutted and bumpy road one could take when things dry out which heads over toward Placid Lake near the Seeley Swan area. We have driven it slowly once or twice over to the other side of the mountains, but only in the warmer months.
Last summer smoke from the Seeley-Swan fires poured down this pass into the Mission Valley for weeks which seemed to have no end. This view was nothing but a gray shroud of smoke with an eerie red glow behind it off into the distance where the infernos were blazing. August was a very unsettling month and it seems strange to think of it now when we have clear blue sky and snow. Consequently, we are hoping to hang onto our snow pack in the mountains as long as possible this Spring!
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