Yellowstone and more
July 2007
11 days riding North Wyoming and Southeast Montana best roads
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The trip report and MAP are at the end. We use the 2002 BMW K1200LT for this 11 days trip. |
Please, if you find errors or want just to send us a comment on this page, use the form on the left. The start mileage ono the bike was 58.260miles and we are expecting to turn the 60.000 mile on this trip. |
This is our stuff for the trip Two side bags, one trunk bag and one top duffel bag.
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Day 1 was hot. Very hot. We had most of the trip over 100F, and the record were in Baker at 113F We slept at a hotel in Mesquite, NV. Too hot to camp (was 102F at 10PM). It was I-15 during all 5:30 boring hours and totally uneventfully
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The second day start great. I love to cross the Nevada,Arizona,Utah canyon on I-15. We were on the road about 6:30AM and today wasn't too hot. The max was 103F, but most of the day we had around 95F |
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| When we got to St. George we saw this dense smoke on the air. Was hard to bread on the open motorcycle. I'm not sure from what fire it was, but was really bad. |  |
| Guess what?!. After 500 miles and we had to cross a rail road and the train was there. A very long one. We count 108 cars, but some of them had already passed. The diesel locomotive were in the middle of the train (or it had some on the front and those 4 more in the middle). |  |
Then the view start being what we came for. Gorgeous. But was too good to be true. I found a leaking on the valve cover of the bike and we had to cut short the day. Stop in Vernal and I try to fix it, but seams like I do have a big problem: one screw stripped the hole housing on the engine block. Tomorrow I will check at a local MC dealer if he can do something else. |
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There is the bike at the York Motorsports of Vernal. Josh was the mechanic guy and he worked very good doing a helycoil fix on the valve cover. I brought the bike already naked so it took him about an hour to do it. He was so nice gave me oil from his personal bike to complete the level on mine. Nice people there. |
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| By noon we were on the road again. Those are the roads a MC guy always look for. Between Vernal and Rock Springs, the HWY 191 is simple the greatest one. |  |
We arrived at Lander around 3:00PM, checking at the hotel (bad one... nice from outside, but really bad inside. I would not stay again at Budget Host Pronghorn Lodge. Next morning we moved to the Holiday Motel Super 9. Less expensive and much better rooms. |
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| The Sinks, in Lander, WY is an interesting formation where the water goes underground for about 1/2 mile and them surface in a beautiful lagoon with fishes. |  |
| This is the hole were the water goes underground. |  |
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| and 1/2 mile below, there is the lagoon where the water surface again. |  |
with many fishes. No. of course you are not allowed the fish here. |
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| Fort Washakie, near Lander, WY |  |
| Looks like people like to us this sign as a target. |  |
| This is one of the best motorcycle roads on this trip: Chief Joseph Hwy. |  |
| We had many roads with life stock crossing. |  |
| Blue skies were a constant. The temperature on the mountains was good, but on the lower roads it was over 85F most of the time. |  |
| Do not feed the animals. |  |
Bear tooth highway 212. For me, this is the most amazing motorcycle road in the U.S. |
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| Pedro and his wife. |  |
| Nice view. |  |
| Nicer view. :) |  |
| we also had a lot of road constructions. Entering the Yellowstone park was a big one. |  |
| entering Yellowstone Park we could see this bear next to the road. |  |
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| one of the many lava holes in Yellowstone. |  |
This pelican is waiting for his dinner to jump. At the rapids in yellowstone river, many trout swimming river up and jump to pass thru this point, where the predator feed. |
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| Yellowstone river |  |
| buffalo |  |
| The Old Faithful in Yellowstone. |  |
| the clear pools at Yellowstone park |  |
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| Mesa Falls, ID |  |
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| pass before Jackson Hole, WY |  |
| Grand Tetons |  |
| Jackson hole portal, made of dear horns. |  |
| A great apple pie at Yellowstone lodge |  |
| Pinnacles, near Dubois, on HWY 26 |  |
| A bad road that we manage to cross right before a really heavy rain. Had we took a little longer, and we would not be able to cross it. |  |
| your cabin at Dubois. |  |
| Ken making experiences with cedar. |  |
| Fire hole in Flamingo Gorge |  |
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| an old turbine at Flaming Gorge dam |  |
| Flaming Gorge dam |  |
| Passing over the dam |  |
| Near Zion National Park |  |
Our last night was at this very nice Bed and Breakfast, the Historic Smith Hotel B&B, in Glendale, UT. very nice people there ad highly recommend you to stay there. |
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Click on each day for a map view
| 07/19 308 - 5:30H |
308 miles - 5:30H 48mpg - 69.5mph |
Mesquite, NV Hotel $33 Oasis |
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| 07/20 744 - 11:41H |
436M - 6:10H 41mpg - 66.8mph |
Vernal, UT $86 Super 8 |
Bike leaking oil from the valve cover. Screw was stripped. |
| 07/21 971 - 16:30 |
227M - 4:00H 50mpg - 65mph |
Lander, WY |
Stripped valve hole was fix, but still a small leaking. |
| 07/22 1081 - 20:30 |
110M - 4:00H 50mpg - 60mph |
Lander, WY $59 Nine |
Sink River |
| 07/23 1388 - 28:30 |
307M - 8:30H 52mpg - 59mph |
Red Lodge, MT $76 Yodeler Motel |
We rode Hwy 212... Wonderfull |
| 07/24 1670 - |
282M - 7:00H 53mpg - 35mph |
Asthon, ID $85 Super 8 |
Yellowstone park |
| 07/25 1872 |
202m - 8:00H 52mpg - 40mph |
Boise, WY $85 Twin Pines Lodge |
Grand Tetons |
07/26 |
324M - 8:00H 50mpg - 55mph |
Vernal, UT $86 Rodway Inn - Bad hotel |
Flamingo Gorge |
| 07/27 2588 |
392M - 7:00H 51mpg - 65mph |
Glendale, UT |
Escalante and Bryce |
| 07/28 3011 |
423M - 7:00H 48mpg - 69mph |
HOME | hot. was really hot. 103F most of the trip. |
Who is Elton I was born in Brazil and moved to USA, California in 1996. Took me some time to learn the language and get into this country, but I think now I'm doing quite well. I became an American citizen in late 2007. |
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