First Visit
With our trip to Iowa for a wedding "in the rear view" and the process if settling in here in Livingston mostly complete, it was time for me to make a run to Absarokee to meet up with the excavator. Spring in this area of Montana comes with snow melt and rain which fills the rivers with muddy fast-moving water. A couple of years ago, the Yellowstone River flooded badly and several of the rivers and creeks fed by the Yellowstone also flooded. The Rosebud was one of those "creeks" that flooded. Absarokee saw a bit of damage in that flood and a key road (to the mine) was washed out. This map of the Yellowstone River, which - according the this map - begins in Williston (how ironic) North Dakota, shows the smaller rivers that flow from it. If you follow the Yellowstone west past Billings, you'll see a red circle where I wrote in "Rough location". Absarokee is in that circle. This morning, Rosebud Creek - which flows from Stillwater River which flow