I have never been to any part of the world that leaves me in such awe or desire to return as the Rocky Mountains.
Go West Old Man
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Got in late yesterday. Was a lot to try to get done in a day. I take very few photos with my phone. Here are a few from the last two days. Weather in the Badlands area was good yesterday. Today we had rain almost all day along with a surprise as we crossed the Powder River Pass in the Bighorn Mountains.
Mickey Merrie
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Dang, calling for a winter storm tonight. 4-8” of white sunshine. Fun driving tomorrow. False alarm, Norma read the report wrong.
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Good stuff. Drive safe and keep on enjoying your trip. We drove thru wet snow on that pass in June 2020. Stuck to road for a moment and melted off. Not shocked to see snow in October I guess. I'd love to see it in the snow. Be a different view for sure.
Ready to get on the road this morning. Heading to the Tetons and Yellowstone today.
Mickey Merrie
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Teton's were my favorite til I saw the big horns, (but not covered in snow). You will have much more to see in Yellowstone then the Tetons so plan accordingly. Keep us updated as your trip just went on steroids!
Today was pretty disappointing. The Tetons were shrouded in fog and Yellowstone was devoid of life. The wind was so strong it blew Old Faithful sideways instead of vertical. We did see some beautiful scenery though.
Well today hasn’t started very well. Stuck in a ditch on route 287 east of Ennis MT. Tow truck on his way.
Just to let you know we are not hurt. My friend that is driving is a little shaken up, but him and his wife are fine also. Wish the truck would show up soon.
We were headed to Glacier National Park but that’s not going happen. We will be heading back to West Yellowstone to wait out this storm.
Big_Holla
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Mickey Merrie
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ya. The west is an iffy proposition after early September... That's why the highways have gates on them. Usually the problem isn't our own driving, it is the other person on summer or southern all season tires.
Be safe!
Be safe!
Mickey Merrie
Junior Member
Back in 2013 we made the trip, but ran in to the October 1st 2013 Federal Park shutdown. As we took a southern route home through Kansas we watched happen what I tried to explain to the Misses and our son.
Yep! The very thing I was warning them could happen was in fact occurring just north of us where we had been a week earlier. The exact places we went out through in 70 degree weather now had the cows up to their horns in killer snow...
October 3-5, 2013 Historic Blizzard
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Yep! The very thing I was warning them could happen was in fact occurring just north of us where we had been a week earlier. The exact places we went out through in 70 degree weather now had the cows up to their horns in killer snow...
Mickey Merrie
Junior Member
But it is the wind along with the cold, not just the snow that gets you. Imagine you are prepared-hell! I live in the great lakes snow belt, we get 150" to 200" of snow a winter here south east of Erie Pa. I am fine, but it is the guy ahead of you that jams things up...miles from the nearest anything that gets you killed.
Mickey Merrie
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30 years prior on a 1 month long hunting trip we got through Douglas Pass in western Colorado which had just reopened and that evening the pass was closed again! Rock slides...
Got snowed off the Gunnison and Uncomprade after hunting several days for Elk in gym shorts and tee shirts! Went to bed it was 60 degrees. Woke up at 4 am to 24" of snow and 24 degrees. There was no wind that time. Woke up with this strange sensation that something was hovering just above my face. Pitch black, no sound. No sooner do I move my hand up from my face about 3" and my hand hits the roof of my tent. FOOM the tent jumps back up to normal height! What the heck?!?! I open the tent to see a wall of fluff. Zero weather warnings either...I woke the crew up and we just made it off the mountain before the bad stuff started. Just north of their in Mesa? Bare ground! So we went there next.
Got snowed off the Gunnison and Uncomprade after hunting several days for Elk in gym shorts and tee shirts! Went to bed it was 60 degrees. Woke up at 4 am to 24" of snow and 24 degrees. There was no wind that time. Woke up with this strange sensation that something was hovering just above my face. Pitch black, no sound. No sooner do I move my hand up from my face about 3" and my hand hits the roof of my tent. FOOM the tent jumps back up to normal height! What the heck?!?! I open the tent to see a wall of fluff. Zero weather warnings either...I woke the crew up and we just made it off the mountain before the bad stuff started. Just north of their in Mesa? Bare ground! So we went there next.