Hey, bikers, Sturgis!

[Robby321]

Man I'll tell ya a "ride" ya GOTTA do in life! "Beartooth HWY"!

Done it a few times and never gets old. Like riding the Alps! I did it first time on a coast ride. Left Ill, to Sturgis, few days there and out to Devils Tower, then wandering WY into MT. Get a room in Red Lodge. And I only do 250/300 miles a day, as all 2 lanes, small towns to look for a neon lite motel to crash out if not camping. Ya leave morning at 80 degrees and 3 hours later ya getting snowed on! Then down into the N/E entrance Y/S. But unless you have reservations in Y/S (good luck) you will have to camp out just outside in Silver city. Just a little town and not much else there but food. Then into next day Y/S, and down to the Tetons/Jackson Hole. Then get a room Idaho. Done all Idaho too, both sides the "Saw Tooth" mountains as "Lolo Pass".

Some pix the "Tooth"! (Theres a biker that first pic too)

[Robby321]

Couple random pix..........


Lolo Pass..

Camping CO Rockies at 11,000 feet! "Rocky Mountain high!" outside Durango..

Lost in Montana...and that was a no services C/G, as abandoned when built a new one across the river. The bottom pic in the whirl pool "COLD Tub" someone built with rocks. Naked, bar of soap, but water is water! Heaven! And I still got that orange towel!

Heading up to Mt Rainier..

[Scott Tharpe]

We put bikes back in trailer just outside the gates of Yellowstone on the east side, but I wish we'd road them all the way till we picked up 90 in Ranchester. Going through Cody, Greybull and that area was just awesome. 9700' at some points. Right when we left Manchester, we hit a little rain and MAJOR WIND STORM-45mph gust) Past some bikers having to ride with bikes at 45 degree angles against side wind. We thought it was gunna pull campershell off the back of the truck.

[Robby321]

Even my dogs been most Nat Parks! ..Tetons here

[Robby321]

We put bikes back in trailer just outside the gates of Yellowstone on the east side, but I wish we'd road them all the way till we picked up 90 in Ranchester. Going through Cody, Greybull and that area was just awesome. 9700' at some points. Right when we left Manchester, we hit a little rain and MAJOR WIND STORM-45mph gust) Past some bikers having to ride with bikes at 45 degree angles against side wind. We thought it was gunna pull campershell off the back of the truck.

Going through Cody, Greybull and that area was just awesome DAMN RIGHT!

[Scott Tharpe]

its hard to explain to people that you can ride by the Tetons on the road for about 45 minutes to an hour and they never go anywhere. Thats how huge they are. I will go back.

[Robby321]

its hard to explain to people that you can ride by the Tetons on the road for about 45 minutes to an hour and they never go anywhere. Thats how huge they are. I will go back.

I don't know why, but the "Tetons" are something to see. Going south out Y/S you start see these HUGE granite peaks and "so majestic." Let me run in the house for some pix I got there...mean while, heres a link "how formed"..

http://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/onlin...ology/sec3.htm

[Robby321]

Some pix. And why no "foothills" east side? Thats worn down mountain debris that formed the "high plains"

Jackson lake

[Robby321]

Thing is I found out about all those "backroads ya gotta take" from dude I worked (Weld Shop foreman) with was a BMW rider, in the BMW club and those guys do insane mileage and know all the roads, many don't even KNOW of! He still rides at 87 now, but the "swinging a leg over" don't swing so good anymore (me either), but still rides a Bergman 650 scoot WI "Northwoods". On Greybull? They (from work) would go fall Elk hunting WY in cages. I've been on some the "roads less traveled" they told me about. I'd have to dig into my "road notes" to remember. And I got a ton pix, 3 my roads trips taped a compact VHS cam now on DVDs.

But I was told that when going WA , Mt ST Helens a must see. I would NEVER have know this "road existed" without being told. It was 1991, 11 years after mountain "blew its top" But told to take the main road out Randle to the summit..(since they built a new visitors center from the west off I5, it little maintained anymore but 3000 curves in 30 miles!) But told me look as soon as ya start back down, and take that one lane (with cutouts) just off the left and will take you back to the road in. DAMN! It was a logging/fire road but paved. Its total gone now, as blocked off both ways in and overgrown what you see. Kinda reminds me Rt 66, as done that TWICE, with parents a kid, 8 and 12! Where I get my "Gypsy wandering blood from"..(Thanks mom and dad!)

This pic is maybe 20 miles away, but look at those trees laid flat from the blast. Makes you stop and think "the power of nature" (not Al Gore, but had to toss that in as hes such a waste good air)

But this is the SIDE the main blast as you can see in the pic, the crater facing off to the left.