7/22/2006: Stillwater R., Moraine access to Cliff Swallow access

	With: Jon Hitchings, Karen Egbert, Gisela Padmali, Bernie Culpepper
	We paddled the Stillwater river from Moraine to Cliff Swallow. The level was 1160 cfs on the Absarokee gauge, but we had probably half that actual volume, as far upstream as we were. We had to follow Stillwater Road back to Absarokee, then from Absarokee we took MT-78 south to Red Lodge (where we stopped for groceries and where Bernie did some more souvenir shopping) and got on US-212 westbound. This was the utterly stunning Beartooth Highway, a 10,000'+ high roadway across the Bearthooth Mountains. We camped in the Soda Butte CG of the Gallatin National Forest about two miles east of Cooke City, MT and about six miles east of Yellowstone.

	1. Castle Rock camping area by the Stillwater River.

	2. Entrance to the Castle Rock camping area from Stillwater Road..

	3. Richard on the Stillwater River.

	4. Gisela, Karen, and Jon on the Stillwater River.

	5. Gisela on the Stillwater River.

	6. The Stillwater River.

	7. Richard on the Stillwater River.

	8. Jon on the Stillwater River.

	9. Karen and Bernie on the Stillwater River.

	10. Jon and Gisela on the Stillwater River.

	11. Karen and hungry friends on the Stillwater River.

	12. Gisela on the Stillwater River.

	13. Gisela, Jon, Karen, and Bernie on the Stillwater River.

	14. Bernie and Gisela draining their boats.

	15. Bernie on the Stillwater River.

	16. Gisela on the Stillwater River.

	17. Beside the Stillwater River.

	18. Gisela on the Stillwater River.

	19. Richard on the Stillwater River.

	20. Richard on the Stillwater River.

	21. Richard, Karen, and Jon on the Stillwater River.

	22. Creek entering the Stillwater River.

	23. Richard on the Stillwater River.

	24. Richard, Karen, and Jon on the Stillwater River.

	25. Gisela on the Stillwater River.

	26. Bernie on the Stillwater River.

	27. Gisela on the Stillwater River.

	28. Karen, Jon, and Gisela on the Stillwater River.

	29. Covered wagons beside the Stillwater River. We think these are used as tourist cabins.

	30. Covered wagons and ranch house beside the Stillwater River.

	31. Richard on the Stillwater River.

	32. Wildflowers beside the Stillwater River.

	33. Coming from Absorakie, looking back at the switchbacks on the Beartooth Highway.

	34. Looking down from the Beartooth Highway.

	35. Hanging glacier across the valley from the Beartooth Highway.

	36. View from the Beartooth Highway.

	37. View from the Beartooth Highway.

	38. View from the Beartooth Highway.

	39. View from the Beartooth Highway.

	40. Looking back down along the Beartooth Highway.

	41. Looking back down on still more switchbacks along the Beartooth Highway.

	42. Switchbacks on the Beartooth Highway.

	43. Gisela's new friend, along the Beartooth Highway.

	44. Jon and Karen on the the Rock Creek valley overlook on the Bearthooth Highway.

	45. Bernie and Richard on the the Rock Creek valley overlook on the Bearthooth Highway.

	46. Tree beside the Bearthooth Highway.

	47. View from the Bearthooth Highway.

	48. View from the Bearthooth Highway.

	49. View from the Bearthooth Highway.

	50. View from the Bearthooth Highway.

	51. Coyote beside the Bearthooth Highway.

	52. Coyote crossing the Bearthooth Highway.

	53. Coyote beside the Bearthooth Highway.

	54. View from the Bearthooth Highway.

	55. View from the Bearthooth Highway.

	56. View from the Bearthooth Highway.

	57. View from the Bearthooth Highway.

	58. View from the Bearthooth Highway.

	59. View from the Bearthooth Highway.

	60. Clark's Nutcracker perched beside the Bearthooth Highway.

	61. Clark's Nutcrackers perched beside the Bearthooth Highway.

	62. Beartooth Falls of Beartooth Creek, a tributary of the Clark Fork of the Yellowstone.

	63. Jon, Karen, and Bernie at Beartooth Falls.

	64. Jon, Karen, Gisela, and Bernie at Beartooth Falls.

	65. Beartooth Creek.

	66. Pine beside US-212 (Beartooth Highway) bridge over Beartooth Creek.

	67. Approaching Yellowstone on US-212 (Beartooth Highway).

	68. Approaching Yellowstone on US-212 (Beartooth Highway).

	69. Camp at Soda Butte campground, just outside the northeast entrance to Yellowstone.