Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Handguns A great trip...

eh..didn't go into Kemerrer as I stayed on 89/30 all the way to Teton NP...

I stopped at Freedom Arms but didn't get tom see Mr. Baker as he was not in. Bought a couple of FO front sight blades for my guns as I've found them better for dim light shooting as often happens when hunting..




Building doesn't look like much but they put out a great handgun..







Very nice lady that I spoke with said they are now 14 months backed upped..that is up from 9 months in 2012...

Just some beautiful country in western Wyoming..





Snake River...

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Fishermen on the Snake River...never saw anyone catch anything though..





Jackson was mega crowded....





After I found a campground took the KLR out for a nice afternoon ride in the Lake Jackson area..



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Found a nice dirt road through theb woods and this is what was at the end...







Sunset from the campground...

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More riding today...

Bob

Those are beautiful photos. Jeff

Thanks..and welcome to the Fire....

Yesterday I had planned on going to the northern end of the park but one of the main roads north was closed so decided to take a shorter ride east, get some lunch in the small town outside the east entrance and ride back the same way...

Ended crossing the Continental Devide twice and seeing a lot of beautiful scenery...







I started out with 875 miles on the bike when Mackay and I took our first ride in late July..turned 3K on this trip...









Yellowstone Lake is HUGE...

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..an unconcerned buffalo bull. I think you could have petted him and he could have cared..

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Leftovers from the Yellowstone fire..

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The road out the east side was great..lots of twisties and beautiful scenery...














Lake Roosevelt...
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The dam area..

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Well when I got to Wapti the place was mostly closed up for the season..so on to Cote I rode.. Found the same EXCELLENT BBQ place and had a great meal. It was then about 1500.



After eating I gassing up..60 mpg again...and headed back the way I had come. But ended up going back to the gas station and asking about the road to the NE entrance to the park... The woman I spoke with said that The Chief Josheph Senic Byway was the most fantastic around so gassed up and full of BBQ I started north...then LONG way home...but worth every minute in the saddle...

Pulling on to the CJ...





All switchbacks up into the mountains....







See forever...

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Very large chipmunks...

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Lots more twisties to the bottom...







Outside the NE entrance to Yellowstone...



Sun is going down and I had to turn around to take these pics...



The sun was horrible. Half the time I had to use my left hand to block the sun out to see. Came around one corner where a lot of cars were stopped and almost ended up the butt of a cow bison...I am sure the whole crowd heard my expletives as I just made the swerve around her..

More buffalo down the road...

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Sun going down and I am still 100 miles from the campground...

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An elk way down in a draw...



That was the last pic of the day... Road the whole length to Yellowstone Lake in the dark. There was very little traffic. I was very fortunate to get behind a car and we made great time without hitting any game... Saw two mule deer and that was it...

About 11 hours in the saddle and 436 miles covered...

Time to pack up and head toward Montana...

Bob

With all due respect RJM, if you went to Cody without visiting the Buffalo Bill Historical Center you can be charged with criminal negligence!! :-) As a gun-guy, it is THE destination whether you're an aficionado of Smith 41 mags or early Winchesters and Colts---you can spend a couple of days JUST in the gun wing of the museum and leave with sensory overload. Also, if you came out the east gate of the park and went to Bubba's, you drove right pass Wyoming Armory (it's west, just past the Rodeo-grounds). Keith Kilby is building custom rifles there that worth stopping to see---he's also building a Winchester High Wall that is parts-interchangable with the originals and he's getting spectacular accuracy from them. Also the Linebaugh's are in Cody--since you're a magnum revolver guy, you'd like seeing them (although I think that John actually lives over in Powell).
A couple of months ago, I walked into the bar at the Irma Hotel and Jim Zumbo was being interviewed for a TV show. It's a shooter/gun-guy/hunters mecca of sorts.

Seriously, for a gun-guy to visit Northwestern Wyoming and not go to the museum would be like a veteran going to Washington DC and not visiting Arlington Cemetery.

JMO, YMMV.

FWIW, I'm jealous---you trip sounds great.

I could also see doing a trip like that in a convertible sports car.

I have been to the Cote Center twice. As explained above I did not expect to even get to Cote so I did not have the time to visit. The way it was I was driving in the dark for two hours and it was in the 40s...toes were cold till later this morning.

I did see the shop but it appeared closed.

Bob

sorry----I'd have hated to think that you came that close and had never seen it.

Not a problem....

Had a nice drive through central and northern Yellowstone yesterday...saw these big horn ewes....



..and later these rams...



Buffalo close enough to pet....



...and this bunch that I almost hit Wednesday...



...when they were standing on this curve...




Went through Mammoth Hot Springs where elk feed in the yards...


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....and out the north exit to the Park....

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...and across Montana I do go...

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Bob

Sweet pics Bob.

I'll leave the light on for ya'.




Travis

Indeed. Thanks for sharing the pics with us. Beautiful.

I have a picture taken from just about this exact same spot, except it was taken in 1975.

Funny, those mountains haven't changed much in the last 39 years.

Bob you definitely saw the most beautiful part of our state. Thanks for the pics. It has been a while since I have been over there.

Bob will be here soon. I hope he likes midgets and vodka.



Travis

Great photos and story.. Just got caught up.. Drive safe..