Beartooth Mountains

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Next Tatum Morrell, Beartooth Mountains, Montana Tatum Morrell, a 23-year-old skilled hiker from Idaho, began her hike from the West Fork Trailhead near Red Lodge on Thursday, July 1, 2021, as reported by the Carbon County Sheriff's Office.

She last contacted her mother using a satellite communicator at 8 p.m. the same day.

Tatum had planned to hike five mountain peaks in the Beartooth Mountains, home to the highest 41 peaks in Montana, over five days.

According to Red Lodge Fire Rescue, it's believed that Tatum departed from her campsite at Shadow Lake on Friday, July 2 to hike one of the peaks in the area.

However, she did not return.

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High in Wyoming's Beartooth Mountains, a team of scientists has a pretty big problem.

A long section of their heavy-duty drill has come loose, several feet underground, and there's no hardware store up here.

For the next half hour, they try to fish it back out so it doesn't become part of the next ancient record.

For now, the ice is still here, meltwater trickling from its base, still holding thousands of years of history.

And beneath the rocks nearby, a new set of sensors is watching what happens next.

In Wyoming's Beartooth Mountains, I'm Caleb Bradel with the Mountain West News Bureau.

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Without Pine Creek, their project didn't connect.

With it, they had a creek corridor, road access, and the only buildable hillside facing the Beartooth Range.

I finally understood.

The cabin was never what my father wanted.

And we split our time between Texas and Montana.

We have a home up in the Beartooth Mountains in Southeastern Montana.

And so Heather and I spend about four or five months a year up there and the rest of the time we're down in Texas.

But we have a recruiting practice here that would focus strictly within the waste and recycling industry.

Eastern Montana, you know, pretty flat.

I mean, it's got its moments, you know, in the Beartooths and, you know, the Crazies and different, you know, smaller mountain ranges.

You know, most people, when they think Montana, they think you know, Whitefish up where we are, you know, Glacier National Park, they think-

Yeah, all these mountains and-

It was a brand new camera, which Sony had lent me to make this documentary.

And we had these vehicles with professional drivers driving through the magnificent Beartooth Mountains in northern Montana.

And they closed off the roads for days.

So we could shoot these vehicles, the tracking vehicles, Um, so I had the DigiBeater hanging, you know, hanging off, um, all sorts of- Camera cranes, all kinds of stuff.

Some of the, the folks may not know who you are yet, so let's learn about what you do for the FWP, and how long you've been doing it, and all that good stuff.

I'm the area wildlife biologist for the Red Lodge area, the Beartooth Mountains, so my primary responsibility is pretty much between the Stillwater and the Bighorn River and south of the Yellowstone River.

I've been the area biologist since November of '76, so I've been around a while.

Let's talk a little bit about, uh, the region itself, region five.

So it's about, uh, 18,000 square miles, 11 million acres.

It's very diversified.

Region five in the Beartooths has the highest peak in Montana with Granite Peak at some almost 13,000 feet, and it also has the only true desert in Montana.

The area south of Belfry and over along the base of the Priors is a six-inch rainfall belt, so it is a true desert.

It was one of her favorite places to ski in the US.

Nestled high in the Beartooth Mountains along the Beartooth Highway near Yellowstone National Park, the Beartooth Basin Ski Resort was usually open only from Memorial Day to July Fourth-ish, and it had basically no amenities.

There was no lodge, no heating tents, and the bathroom situation was pretty sketchy.

But it did have a couple of lifts and a bunch of awesome runs that kept her snow deep into summer.

So like, you know, they had to go up over the Beartooth Pass, which I think is over 11,000 feet.

So it's like, you know, it snowed on the Beartooths.

So it's like it's 117 in the valley at the racetrack.

And then you have to drive a 400-mile section to the next track.