5APRIL2013 @ Bozeman, MT -

Red splotches on my legs and feet.  I have red splotches on my legs and feet.  What is that?  I awoke at 0630 and immediately saw red skin where my pale skin was expected.  Not itchy, not bumpy, not puffy, it was really really disconcerting even so.  Last night's chills were long gone, but now this.  Monday I began walking with tingling toes and that has gone away - are these splotches somehow related?  Is it that circulation in my extremities is reactivating veins/arteries that have not been full for a month (or more) and the red skin is the result?  Well ... whatever... on go the shoes and socks and another day has started.
Joe M. met me at 0730 and we went to the Bozeman stockyards and a wonderful paper napkin breakfast.  It's a baseball-cap-worn-straight type place; my Minnesota Gophers hat fit in well.  Also fitting well is the motto "We aim to try"... they aimed, tried and - with my breakfast for one - succeeded. 
Joe and I whiled away another hour driving up Moffitt canyon to view the actual route used in crossing these mountains 207 years ago (Days later Norm M. showed me Clark's magnified maps that indicate a route a mite farther north, not including Moffitt canyon).  Today's railroad and interstate highway route was blasted through a canyon, but Sakakawea and Clark rode a well trod trail several miles to the north.  Out of use for over a century now, I wonder how many adornments and artifacts could be found along that route. 
We toured in the rain - often heavy - so I decided to walk only to Bear Canyon today.  Clouds thinned and my 6-mile hike was more dry than wet, but six miles was enough given the sky and my preference for staying dry.  About half way through I stopped at a bronze plaque affixed to a huge rock in 1926 by our Daughters of the American Revolution.  The plaque lists every member of the Corps of Discovery who camped there on 14July1806.  The group of 13 was 8 soldiers/volunteers, William Clark, Toussaint Charbonneau, Mrs. Charbonneau (Sakakawea), Baptiste Charbonneau and York (Clark's slave).  Of the three parts of the expedition, it seems to me far better to be with this party.  Meriweather Lewis's third was killing a Blackfeet (Two?) then fleeing, Ordway's third was transporting boats overland at Great Falls while this third was riding horses 100 miles, hollowing out canoes then floating 500 miles down a river.
At night I was back in Helena.