Voices in the Wind Washington Oregon Idaho and Montana

Pat at Cape Disappointment in front of whale statue on the Discovery Lewis and Clark Bike Trail  to the
"The Place of Ghost Writing"  at Pictograph State Park in Montana after rainstorm.
 We have been primitive camping for 7 days now from beautiful cool Cape Disappointment through the Columbia River Gorge where it was 100 degrees up Hwy 12 into the Clearwater River National Forest to the Missouri Headwaters following Lewis and Clark's Trail.  My phone died so I couldn't take photos and personally I just wanted to take in the vastness of this country. Every place we stopped had story and the voices of the past could be heard. On the way to the sacred place below near Billings Montana a rainstorm hit us. It smelled wonderful and the Earth drank it up, but we were traveling on I-90 and Pat had work to do so when we finally stopped I walked the trail in this canyon by myself and went into the cave of the Ghosts just as another storm hit.  I couldn't help myself I stood out in it and drank it up, every pore in my body and I thought about how much we need water for life and for our souls. Because I was one of the only people out in the rain on the trail, I could listen and heard the echoes of the

 the ghosts. Looking at the sky I almost believed in heaven.  

The pictographs in the caves were dated as far back as 12,000 years ago.  The First People, Apsaalooke Crow and others who came saw the pictographs and some believed that ghosts had done the art. They came to the caves which are in this canyon of the Bitter Creek seeking visions and spiritual guidance just like I did.