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

On the chain? Chain L, messy but works excellent, like one application every 500 - 1,000 miles...

http://www.chain-l.com/

The water-filled caldera of Yellowstone Lake, headwater of the Yellowstone River. Huge, and the shoreline has been shifting as the caldera moves beneath it. Gotta be a fascinating lake to study with all the hot springs it must cover. Apparently fishing is good for lake trout.



Campground at the Marina bay area, the French family were camped off to the right, the "hiker bikers" (no reservation needed, $10/night) were up on the hill.

The BEST way to see Yellowstone IMHO would be to leave your vehicle in the town of West Yellowstone and bicycle around between campgrounds, you could see the whole thing in a week and 100 miles, and encounter the animals without a vehicle to hide in. Stay as long as ya want, on a bike ya don't need reservations, $20 to get in and $10/night to camp, restaurants and grocery stores about every 15-20 miles. You could do it other entrances too, but not IIRC without a hellacious climb up and over into the caldera basin.




These things are thick as fleas around the camping areas. No wolves.



The bear box.... they are real proactive about running off bears that try to hang out around the camping areas, chasing them off at least sometimes on horseback I was told.

Mixed this up with a dremel at 8k rpm
Been about 3 weeks , ain't seperated yet.
Run it hard on my AK 47
Stays put, dont sling, dont degrade with heat.
Cleans up easy.

Ain't setting a bear trap for ya.
PM me your mailing address.
Like ta see how it runs for ya on a long bike trip.

If not no biggie.


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Heading out....

Road construction at Fishing Bridge....




You weren't allowed to stop to take a photo in the construction area (they said the Feds were watching), so here's the best one I got of the outlet of Yellowstone Lake, lots of Canada geese, and a few white pelicans.... and lots of seagulls, feeding over the open water....



Coming around on the shore, passed several small hotspots...



Climbing away from the lake, might not look alarming, but its somewhat more so when its just you and the buffalo bull, with the bull calling the shots...



Higher up, still in the land of dead trees....

The trees are being killed by a bug infestation.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/...-mountain-pines-dying-by-beetle-s-mouth/

Arrived at the top of the pass about 1pm.....



For the next five hours and sixty something miles I was just taking photos of "down".....






At the bottom of this photo on the left there's an American flag, marking the location of Pahaska, the restaurant and resort Buffalo Bill Cody founded. Food, I was very happy to see it



Still descending....



...and more.....

The Fallen Biker Memorial in Wapiti, names on the bricks in back.

See them flags? That was the wind that was pushing me....




That about does it for now. Got to Cody yesterday afternoon, staying with friends.

Seen the museum, PHENOMENAL gun collection, one of the very best in the World

Hey, Jeremiah Johnson's (the real one, not Robert Redford) rifle and English bowie (tried to get a photo of the maker stamp) and Jedediah Smith's pistol.

Texas is out, supposed to be at the Little Big Horn to meet other friends in three days.

Tks, I forgot about the bark beetles.

Yep, fairly obvious now,

your still on the couch in Texas....

any pics from the museum in Cody? regret not seeing that.

Ya, next round.... not many tho, I actually didn't have much time.

Just occurred to me....

...I actually don't have a couch

Great photos Mike ! Glad you got to see some Tatankas and didn’t get freight trained by one. 🤠
It’s been 20 years since I’ve been to Yellowstone and seen Old Faithful go off and to the museums in Cody. Your Picts brought back some great memories!

Nice pics,should have packed a fishing rod.

Yep. A 4 piece 4 wgt Fly rod would strap right to that bicycle frame! 😁

Or an A/C I've been told

Bed?

But you do have a bicycle and a camera and post great pics for us non-cyclists to enjoy.

Thanks M,

Geno

PS, way cool about the juvenile eagles eating their lunch. We're lucky to have a good number of goldens in our area (as far as numbers of them go). Not uncommon to see more than one in a day. But California sucks, doncha know.

Was this you Bird?



Ooooooh No! A 'revolver'!

Awesome pictures!

Assault revolver.

Here is my girlfriend at that lake in Yellowstone on May 22. I'm glad the snow has melted.

By the way that is a good idea, to tour the park on bicycle. No reservations needed, just camp out for ten bucks a night. I tell you, we were staying at a motel in West Yellowstone in May, BEFORE the big tourist rush, and we were paying $245 a night for a motel room.