‘Stache’s Birthday (#13!) was this weekend, and he wanted to to go camping. To go somewhere different the DD#1’s family went to the fishing access near Hardy Creek Bridge, on the frontage road on the way to Helena.
We decided to go visit them…and the trouble started…
We order Jimmy John’s to pickup, and they were slammed by the Saturday lunch crowd when we got there. I waited in the store for at least 25 minutes. Then the sirens started!
There was a funeral for a former fire fighter, and everyone in town seems to have shown up. The road from 9th Street to at least Warden Bridge was packed. All three lanes: cop cars, fire trucks, well wishers, and funeral attendees. We thought we’d head down to Central and use the other on ramp to southbound I15.
We finally got on I15 and it wasn’t bad until the fender bender in the right lane between the 10th Avenue South exit we missed and the Airport exit, which funneled everyone into the left lane. After that the funeral traffic returned to the right lane and we sped off in the left at…40 MPH. No one wanted to pass a cop car with their lights on.
The first photo is going down the hill into Ulm. You can see all of the steady stream of cars from Great Falls getting off I15 and trying to go through Ulm. The second photo is the center of the first enlarged.
Passing them all…
~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>
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