HERES WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU HIT WYOMINGS HIGH COUNTRY IN MID jUNE

[pcombe]

HERES WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU HIT WYOMINGS HIGH COUNTRY IN MID jUNE

PALLISADES RESIVOUR(just over the Idaho border) from Alpine Junction, where you leave Wyoming below Jackson Hole
GRAND TETONS (Jackson Hole Wy.) FROST EVERY MORNING,REALLY COLD MOST OF THE DAY.
GRAND TETONS (GLAICER VIEW)
A HERD OF BUFFALLO CROSSED THE ROAD IN FRONT ME
LOTS OF CALVES IN THE HERD

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This time of year is a smorgasbord of weather and not for the fair weather rider.

On my way through a few days before this picture was taken I was running my trike through a snow storm with an inch of wet snow on the roads. (Togowotee pass- pronounced toe-got-tee ) (Shoshone word)This type of weather is very common in Wyoming and most folks would be well advised to wait till about the last week of June or into July to run the high country anywhere in Wyoming unless your into polar bear runs as I obviously am just for the unique beauty, bring clothing for all weather conditions.
In the lower elevations it is not impossible to encounter wind speeds greater than the ambient temperature, I got caught in that situation more than once on this trip making travel over 35 miles per hr. a dangerous proposition. Talk about exhausting. I hear news reports of high, dangerous winds in the eastern part of the nation and we really do shrug our shoulders and wonder what the fuss is about? I didn't say I liked it!



CROSSING THE CONTINENTAL DEVIDE AT 9500ft. Outside Dubois, Wyoming

YOGOWOTEE PASS

TOGOWOTTE PASS ON THE CONTINTAL DEVIDE,IN WYOMING.

Outside Ten Sleep, WY.

I put around 1400 miles on my trike last week, I dipped down into S.E. Idaho and headed north to the lost river valley. Took some pictures in the Arco dessert. (wind gusts to 65 MPH that day) Perhaps I will post a few of extinct Volcanoes and the big lost river when I get time.

 

[Lucky]

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Thanks for the pics. Great looking trip. RIDE SAFE

 

[Rod69]

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Great pics pcombe. Looks like a fantastic ride and view.

 

[RcSuD]

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Nice pics. I really like to see pics of people's riding adventures. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Livin2Ride]

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We made that trip in June of 2012 and 2013 and sure know what you mean about the fickle weather and the wind. We usually go from Buffalo over the mountains thru Ten Sleep, down to Dubois and then on from there into Idaho and up to Glacier NP. This year we plan to do something different and make this trip in Sept. I hope you stopped in Pickles Place while you were in Arco and had a burger or at least the Cowboy Cafe in Dubois.

 

[pcombe]

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<div class="message">We made that trip in June of 2012 and 2013 and sure know what you mean about the fickle weather and the wind. We usually go from Buffalo over the mountains thru Ten Sleep, down to Dubois and then on from there into Idaho and up to Glacier NP. This year we plan to do something different and make this trip in Sept. I hope you stopped in Pickles Place while you were in Arco and had a burger or at least the Cowboy Cafe in Dubois.</div>

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<img src="images/smilies/grin.gif" border="0" alt="" title="big grin" class="inlineimg" /> I had to bypass pickles place as my cousin Gayla owns the lost river drive-in next door to pickles, They make some good burgers and such too. The drive in has been there as long as I can remember and has been in the family for many, many years.<br />
Gotta remain loyal to the brand you know?<br />
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I shot a few pictures in Arco of numbers hill where graduating classes at Butte county high paint their numbers on the rock.<br />
I guess you know that Arco is the first town in the world to be lit by atomic energy in 1949. The atomic energy commission on the Arco dessert also was run by the navy and they designed, built and tested the first atomic submarines? It was a big hush, hush deal when I was growing up, there were always rumors that weapons were developed out there also. My dad was a tight lipped metallurgist among his other talents and spent some consulting time out there.<br />
I cant remember the power ever going out in the town.<br />
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The site is now controlled by private industry.<br />
On the site itself is the location where the Big Lost river just drops into a hole and disappears underground and comes out again about 130 miles away in a place called 1000 springs, Idaho.<br />
<img src="images/smilies/gah.gif" border="0" alt="" title="Gah" class="inlineimg" /> The drought has been so sever over the last ten or so years I have seldom seen water in the lost river in the Arco vicinity itself as it has been held in Mackay reservoir and diverted elsewhere. When I was a kid I cant remember the river ever being dry. Back then everything was open irrigation.<br />
Even now, Whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting!

Spring creek is dry also.<br />
<img src="images/smilies/shrug.gif" border="0" alt="" title="Shrug" class="inlineimg" /> Farming is a real challenge in the valley these days and the family is always struggling for crops.<br />
The big grain elevator in the center of the town was once owned by my grandfather.

 

[Deadeye]

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Thanks for the posting. Great photos. When we ride in your neighborhood it seems almost magical the way the Tetons just poke out of the ground.

 

[skuuter]

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GREAT Pics.....obviously a lot of varied climate changes in the Region.....ThumbUp

 

[Phill Griggs]

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love that ride around ten sleep. figure on snow anytime of the year!

 

[Livin2Ride]

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Hey Pcombe, whats my weather likely to be in Sept? Should I go early or mid month? We are actually cool to cold weather people so a little cold doesn't bother us. We'll try the Drive-in next time we pass thru Arco and tell them you sent us. Anyplace with heat was a good place to stop the last time we went thru Arco. I think the high of the day was 36 and the wind speed was about the same.

 

[pcombe]

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<div class="message">Hey Pcombe, whats my weather likely to be in Sept? Should I go early or mid month? We are actually cool to cold weather people so a little cold doesn't bother us. We'll try the Drive-in next time we pass thru Arco and tell them you sent us. Anyplace with heat was a good place to stop the last time we went thru Arco. I think the high of the day was 36 and the wind speed was about the same.</div>

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</div> That would be a good thing, At least one of the relatives should be at the drive in.<br />
I would suggest that the first week of Sept. would be the best, I have ridden the high country in Wyoming and Montana's Glacier park as late as the second week, Anytime after that may be alright but we normally get first snow at 4500 ft. along the third or fourth week and that's considered the prairie, Frost is likely in the morning and folks are harvesting vegetable gardens around the second week of Sept. so that should tell you something.nothing lasting but the high country can even see non-sticking snow in late Aug.<br />
Normally Sturgis goes on the first week of Aug and the black hills are cold at night.<br />
I usually head in a different direction about that time as Sturgis bores me.<br />
I used to able to have a good time there when I wore a younger mans hair length, and john law had a lighter presence, but I have been there and done that to many times. The last time I was there if it wasn't the same half naked women I seen 35 yrs.

ago they must have sent their mothers in their places?<br />
I guess folks should go to the zoo once a year but I no longer care to sleep with the animals, and think South Dakota fuels their govt. for the next year issuing D.U.I.'s

 

[oneup]

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awesome pics . and if you have more , you have a captive audience. it sure is a beautiful and wild part of the world

 

[pcombe]

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awesome pics . and if you have more , you have a captive audience. it sure is a beautiful and wild part of the world

The picture in your avatar looks allot like Glacier park, Montana.ThumbUp

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Hey Pcombe, whats my weather likely to be in Sept? Should I go early or mid month? We are actually cool to cold weather people so a little cold doesn't bother us. We'll try the Drive-in next time we pass thru Arco and tell them you sent us. Anyplace with heat was a good place to stop the last time we went thru Arco. I think the high of the day was 36 and the wind speed was about the same.

"the high of the day was 36 and the wind speed was about the same?"

Yep you been there done that!:laugh:

 

[pcombe]

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<div class="message">We made that trip in June of 2012 and 2013 and sure know what you mean about the fickle weather and the wind. We usually go from Buffalo over the mountains thru Ten Sleep, down to Dubois and then on from there into Idaho and up to Glacier NP. This year we plan to do something different and make this trip in Sept. I hope you stopped in Pickles Place while you were in Arco and had a burger or at least the Cowboy Cafe in Dubois.</div>

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</div> That's a beautiful ride Through Ten Sleep and the wind river range. I might suggest Next time consider going past Buffalo just a way further to Ranchester, Wy. (just a handful of miles past Buffalo) And go up over- Shell Canyon -toward Cody, Wy. and make your way around the Yellowstone, Jackson, and/or west entrance down around Island park area on your way to Glacier nat. park?<br />
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Note: Arrange to have all you own shipped to the general area and save yourself a trip back home?<img src="images/smilies/smileygarden_de_banana7.gif" border="0" alt="" title="pepper" class="inlineimg" />

 

[slick rick]

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ThumbUp,,,Nice trip my friend ,sometimes just gotta get away and clear the cobwells . Who said we get to old to take on another adventure ? TAKE CARE ThumbUp

 

[Leathel]

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Awesome collection of pictures, from what looks like a great ride

 

[pcombe]

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ThumbUp,,,Nice trip my friend ,sometimes just gotta get away and clear the cobwells . Who said we get to old to take on another adventure ? TAKE CARE ThumbUp

Bout time you bit the bullet and headed out here Slick.

 

[slick rick]

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,,,My problem may not want to come back and then you'll have to feed me !!!!! We hope to be able to hook up one day and stay gone a few months , working on it just may show up one day . I think it would be a place for this old country boy to enjoy , the pics are fantastic and doesn't do it justice I'm sure . ThumbUp

 

[pcombe]

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<div class="message"><img src="images/smilies/grin.gif" border="0" alt="" title="big grin" class="inlineimg" />,,,My problem may not want to come back and then you'll have to feed me !!!!! We hope to be able to hook up one day and stay gone a few months , working on it just may show up one day . I think it would be a place for this old country boy to enjoy , the pics are fantastic and doesn't do it justice I'm sure . <img src="images/smilies/thumbup.gif" border="0" alt="" title="ThumbUp" class="inlineimg" /></div>

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</div> Slick, it does do justice, there's just a whole more than a fella can film.<br />
As far as not coming back, ship all your stuff ahead time and you wont have to.

 

[DakotaTG]

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We've been thru Arco several times on our way from ND to Nampa, ID. Usually ride down thru West Yellowstone to Rexburg and then west to Arco and stay the night at the D&K Motel. Eat at Pickles. I guess we will have to try the Lost River Drive-In the next time. We usually ride out just before Memorial Day weekend and again just before Labor Day weekend. I agree the weather can be chilly in the mornings and we been lucky to not run into snow other than seeing it on the sides of the road. We have gone thru Jackson several times and Yellowstone 9 times in the last 12 years. We have ridden the area from Cody to Worland thru Ten Sleep to Gilette once and enjoyed the ride. I'm thinking it might be about time to ride thru there again.<br />
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On a slightly different note, I see on weather underground (<a href="http://www.wundergrond.com" target="_blank">www.wundergrond.com</a>) that Glacier Park is having to clear roads of snow and Logan Pass is still closed. Last time we went thru there was the second week of August and Logan Pass was closed for a while due to 4 inches of snow.

It opened the next morning and we had a nice drive thru there (was in our SUV).<br />
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