Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 9:51 pm
ChiTown my friend . . . you are indeed an adventure rider! And maybe just a half a bubble out of plumb.
But it makes for a great report and pics!
But it makes for a great report and pics!
Oregon
This guy must have fell asleep.... not a curve or cross road for miles
More construction
Thank God for this place, I was running very low on fuel.
Very tasty burritos here
More shortcuts...
Lava fields
I can't stand to ride behind anyone, no matter their speed, so I passed him and he followed me for quite a run. I didn't know these bike's had it in them... He just finished a 5 day ride, and wanted to shake the hand of the only guy who passed him.
Kind of a weird town, I take it that all those numbers are football players numbers??
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Going into Yellowstone in the morning
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Mt. Washburn
As I was taking the previous shot, this guy jumped out of the forest behind my and just walked on by...
I took a walk out on the waterfall, really neat place to find yourself standing...
Traffic
This is about the point when I had already been to about 5 of the campgrounds in the park looking for a site. I was frustrated by now. I had it in my head that I was going to camp in Yellowstone, picturing my tent on some plateau overlooking a valley with buffalo in it... Boy was I wrong. I was so frustrated because I had just rode through many miles of some of the most beautiful scenery, such vast open spaces, and all the campgrounds sites I had seen were stacked right next to each other like apartment's here in Chicago. With ALL this space why on earth did they have to make the campgrounds so dense. I had already been warned about the traffic, and RV's so that didn't bother me, I understand why so many people would want to come here...
I started making my way out of the NE part of the park, going to ride the Beartooth HWY, a road that the guy I met in Utah told me to take.
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I donated a sticker.....
Back off road, running parallel to 212
This "shortcut" started to get more challenging, after I had passed a group of ATV rider's I wasn't about to turn back...
This picture doesn't communicate how steep this was, or how big and loose the rocks were... I was a few hours down this path so there's no turning back.
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Badlands
Yep, it finally happened. In Wisconsin, practically in my back yard... IL plates doesn't help either.
Home sweet home. But why am I so sad to be here?
The thing I love the most about my bike, take all the crap off, give it a good wash, and I'm back to having a great city daily rider....
The day after.
-Joe
