Rex Trulove
This is right at 15 miles from town, in a place nicknamed the “Perma Curves”. The river to the left is Flathead River and straight ahead through several more of these curves is a log cabin that we lived in for a while. This is one of the most dangerous stretches of road on this route to Polson, particularly in the winter. The curves are much more severe than they appear to be and when there are snow and ice on the road, a driver can easily lose control of their vehicle. The road isn’t particularly wide and there is next to no shoulder alongside the road. This is not a place a person wants to have an accident or to break down.
As a point of interest, most of the hillside directly ahead in this image is slate and shale rock. That was originally at the bottom of the vast inland sea that once covered most of the US, before the Rockies were formed by uplift.
