Welcome to a world, which is like ours, but different. A place where weather and things make no sense. You are now entering the Twilight zone..... I mean Bridger Valley! This is my 4th season here working at Fort Bridger state historic site.
Within 30 miles about 4000-5000 people live all year round in the LEAST densely populated state in the lower 48 states. It is 7000 feet high "Or in metric about 2300 meters up." about round abouts. Somehow, it can snow all year round, even in the summer. It snows more in May then all year round in other places, like Tennessee or Western Oregon. Why just a few hours before writing there was a goodly amount of snow, then sun, then sleet then sun again.
Along with the horrible weather, is however some of the most wonderful landscape around. Out to the north is bleak for mile around, though just that is beautiful in its own way. Then while out there you can look to the south and see the great Uinta Mountains, covered in snow, even as late as June.
Not many trees grow in the area, but the Pines, Cottonwood and Aspens are such a blessing right on the fort grounds where I live.
Animals love the fort grounds such as at Shiloh NPS in Tennessee. The animals are far more relaxed and don't mind people as much, seeing as they know no one will try to shoot them.
So nice to stroll around the grounds, seeing the trees, birds and other animals. It really makes it worth being here.
So, weather, land, plants, animals and now the best for last, the people!
Well........ that I shall save for another day in more detail. Mostly its sad stories or stories that'd shock many. The youth here are not very open minded and are more regularly much more conservative than the "New South" kids. Racism is even more shocking here then in the parts of Dixieland I'm in. Lets say.... apart from the few forward thinking people "who are almost always 30+", it is more backwards then Tennessee "minus Crump and the creepy roads out of Shiloh!".
This is still the "Wild West", and never think otherwise. It can be brutal here and people can have zero manners or get angry easily quite often. They aren't used to people pretty much! Sometimes I wonder if I'm still in American or some independent nation claiming they, and are more patriotic then the rest. Of course, this isn't true for everyone, plenty of normals here, but these are trends I've noticed.
Huh, well, October isn't to far away till I'm back home anyhow and strange I'm only 100 miles to one of the largest cities in the west.... what the hell am I here for? Oh yeah! I like my managers and enough co-workers and the air is clean! ...Plus money and free lodging. Gotta love that!
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