Transcript: Alex Chadwick Asks -- What Are The Rockies?

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ALEX CHADWICK, Host: This is Weekend Edition. I'm Alex Chadwick. There is an odd crook in the Rocky Mountains where the great granite backbone of the continent twists out of its general north-south direction for a little ways. This occurs near Yellowstone, as though the earth were so astonished by what happens there that it scattered off to regather its wits. The ridge line of the Rockies turns west there across southern Montana for about 60 miles and following it, you come to a long valley at about 6,000 feet with a single road running its length. Halfway in, a logging spur bends away to the south and up, ascending through pine forests into the heights of the ...

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