4k Nature Walk – Wine Glass Road in early Spring – City Walks Virtual Walking Tours

4k Nature Walk – Wine Glass Road in early Spring – City Walks Virtual Walking Tours

Hello Walkers and welcome back to City walks although today obviously we are not in the city we’re just outside of Livingston Montana I’m going to tell you a little bit more about that in a bit um it it is down there nestled into that little river valley you can probably see

It um and in the distance you can see the crazies I’m going to talk to you a little bit today about a trip that I’ve been mentioning because I’ve had a couple questions on it um but I do I’m going to get to that in a little bit

First I want to tell you about where we are we are looking right now pretty close to North Northeast and those are the Crazy Mountains up there crazy snowy crazy big crazy steep uh very cool range here and I’ve talked about them in the past and how um the context of other things

Around them changes the the perception to me anyway of how big they are for instance right now they look big but they don’t look that big uh compared to for instance these mountains out here and we will at the end we’ll get down and we’ll be able to look back up into

Paradise Valley and you’ll see some really big guys but actually they’re not that much bigger than the crazies it’s a it’s a weird perception thing we are well first of all let me turn you around and I’ll introduce myself hold on just a second and we’re going to spin around

Hi there my name is Henry I will be your proxy Walker today your virtual travel guide your co-discoverer and that’s the main thing there because that’s what I do here I’m going to spin you around again three um and I do talk on these so

If you’re looking for a quiet walk uh I have one of the tabs on the YouTube channel has a bunch of other great channels for that sort of thing uh so check those out um anywh who we are walking down wine glass Road or at least actually

It’s not wine glass we we will feed into wine glass road but we’re on the wine glass and if you’ve seen our other Livingston walks um I’ve talked about the wine glass quite often if you haven’t seen them go to the website CityWalk virtual tours.com and I have all my walks there

By location so continent nation and then for the US state um and then by walk time so you can pick out whichever ones you want and there’s also a little search field there uh and my tri oh I’m going to tell you about the trip in just a minute don’t let me

Forget about that uh I’m going to spin around here not really spin but we’re going to turn and see and up here is the wine glass area and it got its name and I I didn’t realize this for years but uh there was a guy that was cutting wood up

Here landowner and it just so happened that it ended up looking like a wine glass shape so there’s a wine glass shaped um clearing with snow on it in the winter that was very Stark and it looked like a wine glass so this little hilly area here is called the wine glass this

Whole uh acreage here is the wine glass and we’re going to head on down here so I say C discover I love pointing out little detail little things that I know or notice and over here on the left is a little bluebird box so we get Mountain bluebirds here and a lot of

Ranchers a lot of land owners will put up these uh bluebird boxes I think at one point there was a some concern about the populations and people have made a concerted effort to put up boxes and nesting boxes for them so when they migrate through here uh which they

Should start doing near future here um then they will have a place to a safe place to nest and then they can eat bugs and stuff like that I don’t know if I said this already I don’t think I did it is uh 52° fah 11° C about 10000 p.m. and it is

Actually St Patrick’s Day today better known as my dad’s birthday we had a lovely breakfast with him this morning um anywh who we’re going to head down this road and you can see there’s a lot of houses out here on larger Lots not I wouldn’t say a lot of houses but not zero

Um and they tend to be bigger homes but not all of them are they’re sort of been in development for a long time and there’s a network of roads up here and I don’t know if you can tell but there’s some cars passing laterally in the distance and that’s Interstate 90

The topography out here is pretty dry actually we’re on the oh it’s a North facing slope uh but also western or Facing East so gets a lot of sun not a lot of water you can see sort of a Cliffy area there um looks kind of what

I would call rattles snaky or snaky and they do have those out here and again they’re Prairie Rattlers while they are venomous they’re the only venomous snake in Montana native to Montana and they are very much not aggressive and they I think they have the least

Toxic venom or least venomous is what I read wouldn’t want to get bitten but it’s you know it’s it’s not a frequent occurrence you can see some snow still up here it’s been melting off and this is why I’m on a road today you can see

This is mud well this is what the trails look like especially if there’s trees casting Shadows which allows the snow to stick around a little bit longer which is great we want that but we’re getting into mud season and um Trails can it’s not great for trails to be hiked on when

They’re muddy it’s not the end of the world but um it’s also not as much fun to hiking mud in my humble opinion oh the trip okay so uh I’ve mentioned that my son and I are going to take a trip to France coming up here excuse me and I

Want to tell you a bit more about that because I’ve had a few questions about it and one it’s a bike trip it’s not a walking trip uh we’re going to we’ve gotten ordered some bikes we’re going to load up and do a bike tour across France

Along one of their many many many many many bike paths and we’re going to eat croissants and enjoy the laah valley so the questions were are are we going to film and the answer is yes that is my intention to film both a bunch of walks

If I can if my legs will hold up and also for their other channel that we have the traveling Mel who is my wife uh traveling Mel Channel which is more of a family travel oriented um Channel sorry which I have sort of Let Go by the

Wayside a little bit recently in the last couple years but we have a ton of older videos on there from our trips to Europe and Central America and out west and back east and all that sort of stuff so um and then some blog posts probably on traveling mail but ALS traveling

Mail.com but also possibly on City walks virtual tours.com anyway that’s the story on our trip we leave leave at uh in about a month and a half I pushed it back 2 weeks cuz I realized that we were going to go in mid April and I realized that it was going

To be a little chillier than I wanted to a few things weren’t quite open yet and I thought and we were waiting on some gear so he my son is turning is 17 so he’ll be 18 uh in oh my gosh about 9 months and so it’s kind of a big

Fatherson trip we’re going to do together and I’m very much looking forward to it I want to thank our patreon supporters for your wonderful support uh you can there’s some links down in the description below so check those out if you’re interested in supporting the channel I don’t do a whole lot of

Extras but I do really appreciate it and I give you guys a shout out every time well sometimes forget and anyway it’s very much appreciated it’s a huge help so thank you this uh private gate here this is sort of a typical or maybe not a typical but you

Know kind of a ranch style decoration this sort of log gate I don’t think these are sunflowers but maybe they are from last year these sort of dried tall things they tend to show up in Disturbed areas along roadsides and obviously this is a disturbed area from plowing and Grading just to keep

The road in shape um but they’re they’re yellow they look like sunflowers and they’re very beautiful so nice little Valley here can see on the Northern Exposure you got a little bit more snow sticking around and you can see trees uh bigger trees on the North facing slope and that is because

Of the snow sticking around they retain a little bit more water here in the northern hemisphere uh you know this especially in the winter and spring well other than direct summer the sun is a little bit to the South and so that gives just a little bit of extra

Shade for those and it has an impact and then here let’s take a look at these rocks here this is all private property so I’m not going to climb up there uh kind of neat sandstone and ledgy and snakes like to get up there and Sun themselves in the

Spring we’re not probably too far away from the snakes getting out got a couple months yet I guess and I think I mentioned before on our Strickland Road walk again on the website the we went over there and looked for hibernaculum last year I think last spring and maybe we’ll probably won’t be

Able to do it this year cuz we’ll be gone uh anyway we didn’t really find any big ones but we found several snakes and we observe them from a respectful distance so if you’re interested that direction is the basically ystone River heads South and it it doesn’t head south

It comes from the south out of ystone National Park o I don’t know if you heard that but right at this where this driveway red driveway comes out I think they were they were either Chuckers but I think they were Hungarian oh two more Hungarian partridges popped out they hang out in

Cover Cy there might be some more in here and they’re about the size of a large California quail and if they’re hungar well I guess I think the hungarians partridges are introduced well I know those are but I’m not sure about the partridges the like um proper Partridge and they’re a ground

Dwelling cvy bird as you probably saw H only four they can give you a startle when they erupt like that oh over there you can kind of see some uh I don’t think they’re prairie dogs I think they’re ground squirrels they little ground dwelling rodents they’re out now just notice that

Started noticing them this week with the warmer weather another look at the snowy Ridge there the other thing that will give you a startle is in the woods around here and they have them back east in the US and they are roughed Grouse they have three no four five types of grous in

Montana at least and they are rough grous which live in sort of the lower timbered areas in thick areas uh and they’re H they’re about the size of a small chicken and then you have blue grous and those are about the size of a rough grass I think and they live a

Little higher up and then you have Spruce grous and I think those are the ones that are live up the highest I might be trans trans mutating transposing the the blue and the spruce but but anyway they’re a lot bigger and then you’ve got sharptail grass which live out here in sort of

This kind of terrain maybe a little flatter and um then you have one of my favorites the sage grous and they are pretty big they’re not um not the size of a turkey but maybe the size of a domestic duck those big white ones um anyo

They’re the ones you can see out dancing you can go to one of my other many YouTube channels called uh amazing nature therapy or something amazing nature relaxation therapy I can’t oh there goes another one that is I believe a Hungarian or a hun might be some more we’re going to

Get some dogs here cuz we are oh sorry to swirl I was hoping another one there’re there’s they’re hiding in here anyhoo we’re going to pass some friends who have their dogs they’re planning a river trip we’re going to walk past uh what was I saying oh yeah so you

Can go there and I’ve got um a fair amount of footage there and then I think I might even have some 360 footage of sa I’ll try to remember to put some links here come the dogs who I know and know me hi BOS hi spur

Um anyway they are super cool they do this dance in April late March early April so right about starting to start out now or soon um and they do they have these big G sacks so they they gather on these places called Lex l e k s and

These are dancing grounds or display grounds and they go out there before Dawn and start plopping and they make this plopping sound I can’t imitate it but it carries for miles and miles out on the and this is out on the Prairie um and they’ll all gather and they’ll sort

Of compete and hit each other with their wings the males will and then every so often a female will sort of saunter around and observe and take stock of the of what’s on offer and um do their little mating thing the choal kiss and off they go and it lasts for

About a month and it’s it’s spectacular display of nature I I just find it fascinating so here’s a chicken and I’m going to show you this chicken because that is a little bit smaller than a sage grous about about the same size they work the males weigh up to

About 7 lbs and for a bird that’s pretty heavy because of the whole Hollow bone thing you can see the uh pointy Peak there is Livingston Peak and you can climb up there it’s not too bad it’s a little it’s pretty steep but you can drive up a good chunk of the

Way uh and then this other mountain in the foreground uh where there’s a a phone tower up there I think you can see um there are private Lots up there there’s no services or anything but people have cabins up there or Shacks or whatever and you can get up there in the

Summer and in the winter if you’re willing to not drive um and stay up there and you have some peace and quiet and then to the right you start to get it to see some of the amazing mountains and peaks of the absara range really are spectacular especially with the snow on

Them and the Shadows a it’s lovely here is a cattle grate that is no longer in use I don’t know if I’ve mentioned that before but usually there’s no dirt in here so they just it’s more like this little open end and cows and horses and other livestock can’t step on those round

Things with their hoves and otherwise they’ll break their leg and they know better so they don’t do it and it blocks them in and you can still drive through off to the right we’ll see some we’ll have the chance to see some of the ground squirrels

And I don’t think I think they’re ground squirrels I don’t think they’re prairie dogs here I will try to link to the sage gr footage and also prph footage but I have a tendency to forget there’s some couple of these little guys out there uh so if I don’t

Please remind me uh it’ll probably be linked on the web page rather than YouTube I think YouTube frowns on external links oh isn’t that spectacular so when we float in the summer on the Yellowstone we float right below all that stuff not right below but pretty

Close this is a working Ranch to our right I don’t remember what it’s called but hopefully they’ll have a sign up here wine glass Ranch excuse me not sure exactly what they raise if it’s c or just hay you can see a bunch of hay stored off to the left here big round

Bales and those fence-like things off to the left are actually snow fences portable snow fences uh right about right around in there I can’t really see cuz the light um wooden and what they do I’m going curve off to the right here uh out here

On the flat the wind comes off of and I’ve spoken about the wind before the wind comes down off of Yellowstone and off of these mountains on both sides of this Valley the cold air sinks comes down off of there and the valley Beyond here is is you know

Fairly wide but it’s narrowed down at this uh this pinch point this Canyon and so when it comes out of here can be going 50 or 60 M an hour in the winter and if there’s any snow the snow is dry it blows around drifts up over this

Road and rather than coming through and trying to bust through with a plow every day they put the snow fence up and what happens is the snow blowing ground snow hits that fence and is slowed down enough to fall and it’s in the Lee of the fence a little bit which

Means that um it’s not as likely to move and so it creates a drift behind the fence rather than on the road and it’s just a simpler way of uh mitigating that and it’s not really a subdivision back in here but I think they do have some Cooperative agreements and the ranch I

Guess um um allows those to be put on their property for their benefit as well as others and I guess stores them as well got a pivot sprinkler I don’t know if it’s actually a pivot here but rolls around on those Wheels big pump shoots water out there

And it sprays all over this Hayfield as it rolls look at that view isn’t that beautiful oh I just cannot even get over it and such a beautiful day too old Rancher sod Digger um for those there’s a lot of interest in moving to Montana the the Yellowstone TV

Series um a lot of travel people a lot of best of lists and you do get these beautiful beautiful days like today but as I mentioned you also get 15 mph winds and uh snow that blows and drifts and uh subzero temperatures and can be pretty

Rough and just long long winners uh I love it and a lot of other people love it but just think about that and consider it before you really commit to it uh I was talking online actually a guy that has moved over to Boseman and I think he’s he says he’s

Having a great time I think that’s what he was saying loves it a lot and uh it’s a great town over there I also just read that the median home price is like $1.16 million or something like that for a single hand home that might be a reference

To that house up in calville that raised such a Ruckus but I think that’s what I read in the paper oh just cannot get over that view so these are all hay Fields off to the right and off to the left my son and I did a sort of training

Ride the other day about 27 miles it was on road similar to this and I don’t know if you can tell but it’s called washboarding um and if it’s called something different where you are let me know no I’m interested and it’s basically the traffic creates this Ridge

Pattern similar to a washboard or a corrugated um metal and on a on a car it’s bad enough but man on a bike it’s uh you’re definitely looking for the smoother smoother options the traffic out here is on Highway 89 it’s not an interstate but I believe it is a Federal

Highway and it’s mainly two lane in this area and then off to the north here half mile a mile it turns into I believe maybe it just has a turing Lane but in the summer when people are headed to Yellowstone it and down to the launch their boats in the river it gets

Busy at least for out here you can see some ridges in the snow burm here where a tractor’s gone through and I wonder if it’s been to move those snow fences must be I’m going to walk out here this is private land but I just want to see something cuz it looks

Like a bird got got it did at all these feathers down here those those look like I’m going to guess Goose see them all on here cycle of Life something didn’t make it but something got to eat so one thing I would like to comment that many people are not aware

Of if you find a dead hawk or owl or Eagle unless you have a permit you are not allowed to take or possess their feathers or any part of that animal uh they’re protected by a treaty International treaty I believe it’s a and it’s a federal law

And you hear every once in a while people getting these having picked up some hawk feathers or something and having them in their windscreen visor or sunscreen and ended up with 10,000 $20,000 fines I don’t know if that’s apocal or if it’s real but you know just letting

You just throwing that out there let’s say that you guys what a beautiful day to be out for a walk and I hope I know a lot of you are just here for the travel aspect some of you are here for relaxation sort of play it in

The background that’s great if you’re on your treadmill awesome um get after it and you know let me know in the comment section I I meant I usually try to say something in the beginning but I’ve been trying to get away from saying that in the beginning cuz you don’t

Really want to hear that but anyway love your comments I love getting your comments um I refer to them often when I’m walking because they make me think or they ask interesting questions or they give me information and you provide your own memories and sharing and I just

Like that sense of community gives me a lot of Joy when I’m making these videos you know I I go through and I try to answer every single comment that comes through the filters because YouTube has some kind of wonky filters and I’ll end up I’ll end up getting

These messages every once it’s kind of rare but every once in a while get a message 2 months later or 3 months later and I feel bad cuz I I make a concered effort to reply and here this message has been sitting out there for months and then of course if

It’s uh troll like messages I just delete them and block them so uh rather than reply okay US Highway 89 I want to thank you guys for joining me on today’s virtual treadmill walk virtual walking tour here on the wine glass the bottom of the wine glass we’ll

Get a little Glimpse off of The Crazies again oh and there’s this bike path too it’s great it here’s somebody biking uh uh no motor vehicles we saw somebody roller skating early earlier hi there uh but this goes all the way into town and then off to the right we turn

To our right you can see it Go continues on and actually goes down till you get to Trail Creek Road just at the other side of the canyon then you can get on some dirt road with basically it’s close to zero traffic all right thanks again guys I

Appreciate you joining me today I’ll be walking again with you soon next week not sure from where just yet uh but until then keep on stepping

Today we take a pleasant afternoon stroll down the Wine Glass area. We start up high and make our way down hill to the highway with glorious sunny views all around. The snowy Montana mountains do not disappoint today. The snow is melting down low but the peaks are still heavy with winter’s bounty.
I hope you enjoy our little nature walk on your treadmill or exercise machine as a nice distraction from your workout our just relax to the scenes of rural Motnana.

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