Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire On the road again.

Based on his previous posts I'd wager he's suckin' dick for a ride, a blanket, or some bed space.

National Park probably has lousy/non-existent wi-fi. He'll weigh in soon with some more beautiful pics, some interesting stories, and some observations only he would make.

Mike, you get down here - call me. 505-617-1342.
I'll buy you a meal, and maybe some adult beverages. Might even be able to put a roof over your scraggly head!

I'm so happy for you two.. I promised myself I wouldn't cry..

Roy you’re gonna need to clean those spandex son.


Great video Joken2

Holee Fawk!!!

What's that you say, eh?

Geno

Like i said, brotherfuggers.

The most remarkable thing; I hit that pass in Yellowstone at 8,600 ft around 1pm and ain’t had to hardly pedal since, 50-55 free miles with a strong west wind at my back. Still windy, at least 90 minutes of daylight left but I figure there ain’t gonna be anywhere cheap in Cody. So I stopped at Buffalo Bill State Park.

No WiFi no phone service in Yellowstone, the way it was explained to me is there’s only one tower for the whole place so you get bars like you got a signal but that one tower is overwhelmed by volume. No idea the truth of it. Anyways Verizon is the only service that gets anything at all, I couldnt even text.

Glad to see the bears didn’t eat you ! 🤠

Trip Two Day 8: 54 miles ~300 total.

Rolled into Yellowstone NP around 10am amid the long lines of cars and RVs, a kazillion families on vacation, sorta impatient, prob’ly wishing a lot of the other folks had gone somewhere else this year. 30 miles give or take from West Yellowstone to Old Faithful, passed a bunch of other geyser and steaming areas but I was on a mission.

The Old Faithful area is all built up; museum type place, hotel, restaurants. I had an hour to the next eruption (about every 90 minutes). The place I ate was packed, the wait was long, and the food both expensive and awful.

Waited with the crowds (next to a nice retired couple from Nebraska), seen it go off, time to move on. Except I couldn’t. Friggin’ storm cells again. Next place I needed to be was Grant’s Village on Yellowstone Lake, 17 miles away over 8,000+ ft Craig Pass. So, waiting three hours for the rain to clear I got to see Old Faithful go off twice more, and I’m glad I did, ya gotta experience the regularity of the thing to really appreciate it.

Clouds, storm cells ain’t letting up, finally late in the day, fuggit, I take my chances and head out. Getting dark by the time I make the Continental Divide at 8,000 whatever. Then it begins to rain, gets dark, lightning. First night in Yellowstone and I’m on a bicycle at night on a narrow winding road in the rain and thunder at 8,000ft.

The road takes forever, I gotta go slow ‘cause I can’t see chit. Once in a while cars pass by, I bail off the road surface, once in a while some honk their horn like I don’t know I’m on a narrow windy road at 8,000ft at night on a bicycle in the rain

At friggin’ last the road begins to head downhill, the traffic has died but I still gotta go slow because I can’t see chit, my headlight is ok but it’s only “hey-don’t-run-over-me” spec, not “don’t-hit-a-Buffalo-in-Yellowstone” floodlight.

It occurs to me that Yellowstone is famous for its bears. It also occurs to me the grizzlies are famously irritable when surprised. I guessed that one of the best ways to surprise a bear would be on a bicycle at night in the rain.

So for like the last hour I’m singing out ditties like “John Jakob Jinglehiemer-Schmidt” ( I tried it but I found “99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall” required too much concentration).

It was friggin DARK, and wet, all I got is this little tunnel of light from my bike headlight. Finally I locate the campground like 10:30, it’s all dark, and wet.

I find the campground office, the check-in walkway is sheltered and dry, plus there’s a porch light. Hikers and cyclists get cut rates and don’t need reservations. I park the bike under the light by way of explanation and lay out my cotton bedsheet on the concrete walk, inflate the pillow (those things rock😎). Until later on when the temperature got down around 40 the skeeters were bad, so I unzipped the bag Timbermaster gave me and slept under it, covering my head.

I was warm and dry but hey this was Yellowstone, I could be jumped by a griz any moment, so kept spray and (concealed) firearm close at hand. Slept well.

Hmm.... catching flack and ridicule about wanting wool.

You guys might be out of the loop, reenactors got wool all over, so do the websites that supply em.

Turkey Foot Trading Co, my go to wool blanket place....

Check out the Norwegian and Israeli milsurp. 100% wool, 3lb, $35. Every mountain resort I’ve been to has its token “Mountain Man” store, that’s where I’d look. Don’t have to now.

http://www.turkeyfootllc.com/blankets.html

Awesome. You're having one heck of an adventure, and doing well. Good grief, that night ride over the pass was a little crazy though...

Guy

you won't be finding any $35 wool blankets on mountain resort towns, or tourist towns.

Pendleton Yakima camp blanket will set you back $150 probably but be a good blanket.

Be safe Birdie. Find an Army surplus store if you can. Israeli, Ukrainian, Belgian. A wool blanket is a wo.... price rules.

Interesting link, Mike. Thanks.


Pendleton Blankets are quite pricey!

Thanks for the update!

Yes Thanks for the update, awesome

Or the dump truck!