Bighorn Basin region, Wyoming

Group photo after tying one on our last night in Billings, Montana.Photo by Peter Horst

Little Sheep Mountain across the Buffalo Bill reservoir. View is to the southwest I think.

Turning around at the view in the above previous photo, here is a view of Rattlesnake Mountain and Cedar Mountain. Rattlesnake Mountain represents
an asymmetric fold that is basically coming toward you in this photo. The flat lying beds forming the high cliffs are actually gently dipping away from you
making up the backlimb of the fold, while the flatirons at the base of the mountain represent the steeply dipping to vertical forlimb. Off to the right (ESE)
is Cedar Mountain, marking the southeast continuation (and termination?) of the fold.

Bigger view of Cedar Mountain.

Here is a view from the NW end of the Sheep Mountain anticline. We skymapped the plunging anticline- syncline pairs from this location.
It's nice when the strata are easily distinguished and exposed like this.

Group photo taken by Francois I think after too many brewsters at Applebees. Amy seems excited.
Note: this event set the stage for the bingefest resulting in the earlier group photo.

Shoshone river cutting through the Sheep Mountain anticline.

View to southeast of limb of Sheep Mountain anticline. This photo was supposed to be stitched to the photo below, but I messed it up, and then
accidently deleted the originals, and couldn't redo it because, well, because I'm an idiot. Stupid panarama maker. I should have just done it the way
I had been instead of trying something new.

Yep, here's the westward continuation of the fold in the Madison Formation where we had to identify sequence boundaries.

View to the west from Dead Indian Summit. The snowcapped peaks in the background are the Absaroka Mountains, and I think the Heart Mountain
detachment can be approximately traced by the edge of the cliff I'm standing on that appears in the immediate foreground at the bottom of the photo.

View to the west of the mouth of Clarks Fork canyon in the Beartooth Mountains, with a terminal moraine in the foreground.

To be honest, I don't remember where this photo is from, but I'm going to guess that it is a view to the southish, of synorogenic sedimentary units
that are dipping off to the east at the range front of the Beartooth Mountains. If that's incorrect....I would love to know that!

Ok, here is a view to the southwest of basement involved fault-propagation-fold in Clarks Fork Canyon, which makes me think my guess for the above
picture is correct. And now that I look at it again, I'm pretty sure it's right. I suppose I could have just edited the text, but then nobody would ever
know this conversation took place. Does a conversation require more than one person?

View south from Five Springs campground of Bighorn Mountain front. Thrust fault at the base puts Jurassic on Cretaceous. Here is where basement
is folded along zones of brittle deformation, which accommodated tilting. Evidence for significant folding includes lots of relief and minimal movement
along the thrust fault.

Southeast-dipping beds of Carter Mountain with reservoir, Rattlesnake Mountain, and Cedar Mountain in the background. View is to the northeast.

Southwest view of backthrust in the foothills of Carter Mountain.

Told you there was karaoke, as demonstrated by Steve and Amy.
FYI: they're singing 'Goodbye Earl' by the Dixie Chicks.