going to wyoming thursday. any must sees? - Page 3 - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

t walgamuth · #31 07-19-2006, 12:24 PM

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Originally Posted by TwitchKitty

Watch for the immigrant trails. There are often placards on the roads where you cross them. They are on some roadmaps also. IIRC the trails split in west central WY and go to Oregon and Salt Lake City, etc. Those were some tough people to push all of thier worldly belongings in handcarts across that country. There are graves all along the trails. Almost any physical problem was deadly under those conditions. When you look across the horizon and see recognizable landmarks, those are the same landmarks the immigrants used to navigate.

Warning, if you venture offroad, sagebrush will scratch paint.

dont worry about me going off road in the middle of nowhere! i have only two wheel drive.

t walgamuth · #32 07-20-2006, 07:13 AM

yesterday i spent most of the day with my wife.

so we didnt do much exploring.

rode the lift up to the top of the mountain, she did some shopping while i napped or read in the truck, and ate supper in a fancy restaurant with all sorts of interesting antiques hanging all over every square inch (almost) of wall and roof.

some interesting very early fishing poles right above our table.

i had trout. it was good but cold. 17.95 ouch!

everything is very expensive here.

i will be heading home today. i am going to go north through the edge of yellowstone and over to I-90 so i wont repeat myself and look for some interesting things to visit along the way.

i got a map of wy that shows the old wagon trails.

should be home saturday night or sunday at latest.

tom w

John Doe · #33 07-20-2006, 10:38 AM

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Originally Posted by t walgamuth

rode the lift up to the top of the mountain,

tom w

In Jackson at Snow King or at Jackson Hole? The tram at Jackson Hole is cool because you can see Idaho from the top.

t walgamuth · #34 07-21-2006, 09:17 AM

the tram. i didnt realize i was looking at idaho. just a great view though.

so yesterday i drove up thru yellowstone again and went out the east entrance. wow! that way is a twisty turney thing. dont go that way fi you are in a hurry. well....nothing about yellowstone works if you are in a hurry. i saw a moose in the water for the second day in a row, wading and munching. males with the antler table. then later i was driving through a wooded area and looked out my window to see a huge buffalo male lying 4' from the road on a ledge at my eye level....chewing his cud. later i rounded a curve and there was a huge buffalo sauntering along the edge of the road on the 3' strip between the white line and the edge of the pavement. i stopped as he walked by and his hump went almost to the top of the roof on my dodge 3/4 ram. i would guess over 6'.
when i got out of the park the road wnt on and on and there was a section of road with more of those 20 mph switchbacks. (it was just a big red line on the map) and as i crested the hill, i had a tremedous view out maybe 50 mile over the lower land.
lots and lots of horses grazing. they outnumber any other livestock there about 10 to 0ne.
today i have to make it to emmitsberg iowa to pick up my favorite machinists crank grinding heads. hopefully b 500 pm.

i am off!

tom w