100 miles in 11 days
Gary Ferguson’s wife, Jane, once told him that she would want her ashes scattered in the five places in the West most memorable to them. For the final journey to fulfill her wish, he decided to walk from his home in Red Lodge, Mont., to the Lamar Valley in Yellowstone National Park.
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Sources: Times reporting, "Absaroka Beartooth Wilderness: Outdoor Recreation Map", Google Earth, Digital Globe, U.S. Geological Survey, ESRI, TeleAtlas. Digital images from Google Earth
Graphics reporting by Thomas Curwen; interactivity by Lorena Iñiguez Elebee; edited by Les Dunseith, Julie Sheer, and Arnold Paradise
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