August 11th A long day of towing back to the Yellowstone area

We got a fairly early start out of Glacier National Park as we had a long day of towing in front of us as we wanted to reach the Yellowstone area by late afternoon. We once again headed down Montana Rural Route 89 through the Blackfeet Indian Reservation (watching for loose cattle and horses) and then into the rolling ranch lands. I enjoyed the stark but pretty scenery while listening to bugs splat against our windshield (there sure are a lot of bugs in Montana). As we traveled I was able to pick out three missile silos and one launch site. Our missile defense system is truly hidden in plain site! Once we crossed back into Wyoming we stopped at a visitor center to dump our holding tanks and fill our fresh water at the free RV waste station then we prepared lunch and ate in the visitor center parking lot before heading back on the road. Around 4:00pm we started to look for a National Forest campground and we came upon was at Earthquake Lake which is about 30 miles outside of Yellowstone. Here's the story about this interesting place: On August 17th, 1959 an earthquake near the Madison River triggered a massive landslide. The slide moved at 100 m.p.h. and in less than 1 minute, over 80 million tons of rock crashed into the narrow canyon, blocking the Madison River and forming Earthquake Lake. After we setup camp we took a walk around the campground and then we hiked down a hill where we could see the lake with its dead trees and a portion of road underwater. On the water we saw many white pelicans, American coot and Canada geese floating around the dead trees and as we were heading back to our site we saw a doe with her fawn grazing on the hillside near us. Once we got back to camp we made dinner and then retired for the evening as it had been a long travel day.