After the trip last year I attempted to upload the pics to PB but went over my limit and was locked out. This is an abbreviated pictorial of that 2 day, approx 800 miles journey. I took off from Ogden over Monte Cristo Mountain and headed counterclockwise around the Wind Rivers Range, Over Cristo at approx 9,200 feet elevation via Randolph Wy, then Fossil Butte, Kemmerer, the Farson Cut-off to South Pass. Lander where I spent the night in my tent in a pasture at a buddies hobby ranch and fly fished a little on his stretch of the crystal clear stream.
The next day I headed north to Fort Washakie Indian Reservation to visit the grave of Sacajawea. Then pressed further north and west to Dubois where I grabbed lunch and then over Togwotee Pass to Moran Junction and down to Jackson. I topped off on the north side of town and drove straight through spending as little time as possible there. It's a tourist trap these days and I'm not comfortable around the LandRover and Gelandewagon crowd.
Heading south out of town I made the on the spot decision to head SE via the Hoback Junction and pushed on to Big Piney. That stretch and south of BP to Labarge saw me riding in excess of XXX mph for several minutes at a time at least a half a doz times. Once I made it to Labarge I retraced my route to Kemmerer and basically covered the same roads back that I described above.
PS: I just realized that the first pic is from the trip I took this year since I have the aluminum fly screen on and am missing my fly tube. However, the pic is correct as it was taken on the exact route just at a later time.
Click on the pics to enlarge them for more detail.
Early AM heading out over Trappers Loop at about 8,000 feet and a few miles from home
Fossil Butte, on the Way to Kemmerer Wy, about 90 miles from home.
Between Farson and South Pass these 4 historic routes converge and the country side is pretty much exactly like it was 200-300 years ago, discounting the road of course. No houses, no telephone poles...just a few strands of barb wire.
South Pass, about 20-30 miles from Lander, Wy. It had rained pretty just before the pic was taken and the fog had cleared.
At a pioneer museum in the town of Lander.
Sacajawea's grave on Fort Washakie a few miles north of Lander. It's worth mentioning that this is a very historic and fascinating cemetery. I could have walked quietly through it for hours looking at the history etched into wood and stone.
Her sons headstone.
I'll end it here and see if the IMGUR account actually works.
The next day I headed north to Fort Washakie Indian Reservation to visit the grave of Sacajawea. Then pressed further north and west to Dubois where I grabbed lunch and then over Togwotee Pass to Moran Junction and down to Jackson. I topped off on the north side of town and drove straight through spending as little time as possible there. It's a tourist trap these days and I'm not comfortable around the LandRover and Gelandewagon crowd.
Heading south out of town I made the on the spot decision to head SE via the Hoback Junction and pushed on to Big Piney. That stretch and south of BP to Labarge saw me riding in excess of XXX mph for several minutes at a time at least a half a doz times. Once I made it to Labarge I retraced my route to Kemmerer and basically covered the same roads back that I described above.
PS: I just realized that the first pic is from the trip I took this year since I have the aluminum fly screen on and am missing my fly tube. However, the pic is correct as it was taken on the exact route just at a later time.
Click on the pics to enlarge them for more detail.
Early AM heading out over Trappers Loop at about 8,000 feet and a few miles from home
Fossil Butte, on the Way to Kemmerer Wy, about 90 miles from home.
Between Farson and South Pass these 4 historic routes converge and the country side is pretty much exactly like it was 200-300 years ago, discounting the road of course. No houses, no telephone poles...just a few strands of barb wire.
South Pass, about 20-30 miles from Lander, Wy. It had rained pretty just before the pic was taken and the fog had cleared.
At a pioneer museum in the town of Lander.
Sacajawea's grave on Fort Washakie a few miles north of Lander. It's worth mentioning that this is a very historic and fascinating cemetery. I could have walked quietly through it for hours looking at the history etched into wood and stone.
Her sons headstone.
I'll end it here and see if the IMGUR account actually works.
