Diving in Glacier National Park July 2009

[DetectorGuy]

We Made it to Billings Montana this afternoon. We are camping on the Yellowstone River tonight. Last Night we stayed at Horsethief Lake about 2 miles West of Mount Rushmore. I did one dive there but it was not a great dive. The lake elevation is 5,129' above sea level. I always expected that this would be a deep lake, but it turned out to be a very shallow lake. The deepest I could find was 14'. I found a bunch of lead weights, some brass trout spinners, and a landing net. It was just one of those lakes that I could not resist diving to see what is down there. After the dive we just hung around the campsite. Today while heading North towards Deadwood SD we ran across a lake called Pactola Lake. This lake is at 4581' above sea level. The resevoir was created in 1953 and it flooded two towns. The actual buildings were sold at auction prior to flooding so all that all that remains is the footings and stuff like that. (I have a photo of the Auction Bill from 1953 that shows all the buildings that were there). The lake is 150' deep but most of the building sites were only 120'. The visibility is 20' plus. We were on a mission to get to Billings before it got to late so I did not dive here today. On the Way to Billings today we stopped in at the Battle of Little Bighorn National Park. That was really neat to see. There were signs all over telling tourists to tell a park employee if they see anyone with metal detectors in the area. In the museum there were numerous revolvers that were found in the battlefield and in the river near by. (I was a good boy and I left the detector in the truck  :'( :'(). If only I wasn't so damn morally straight, I would have been in the river just outside the boundaries of the National Park scoopin' up the guns. Well I better hit the hay cuz' tomorrow night we plan on camping at the base of Skalakaho Pass West of Butte Montana. I will update the trip if I can get a Wireless connection again.