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Beartooth Pass

Sig220_Ruger77Sig220_Ruger77 Member Posts: 12,754 ✭✭✭
edited May 2017 in General Discussion
I was just reading that the Beartooth Highway is set to open next weekend. I'm not sure about the wife, but I'm kind of excited to have the opportunity(well, weather permitting when we are there) to drive it again. I think she will like the scenery. [:)]

Jon
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  • dpmuledpmule Member Posts: 6,746 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Dependent on your route either before you go over the pass or after you come across. You should think about going through Sunlight basin/Crandall, they now call it the Chief Joseph highway, as he did use this drainage during his exodus from the Wallowa valley heading for Canada.
    Big beautiful views. Turn off is just north of Cooke city and the other end is just north of Cody.
    It was really nice years ago when it was still gravel and very little traffic.

    What's the dates you will be in the area?
    Mule
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  • MIKE WISKEYMIKE WISKEY Member Posts: 10,046 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    we were there last summer, mid July. Temp. was 32 deg. and the pass was closed due to new snow
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  • texaswildmantexaswildman Member Posts: 2,215 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Fished all around in the Beartooth area many times. Beautiful.... Nothing like eating some little brook trout, fresh caught and cooked at the stream side ....
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  • JasonVJasonV Member Posts: 2,481 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Me and the wife will be there on the motorcycle the first 2 weeks in June. Spending 10 days around and in Yellowstone.
    formerly known as warpig883
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  • MBKMBK Member Posts: 2,918 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Finest car-drive pass I have been on. First time was 1952 and Dad was looking at scenery then ran off the road and dented the fender in the 50 Merc. Scary, but he did it on the "good" side.

    I still have the photos. We came upon a crashed Cessna 150. Pilot OK.
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  • Sig220_Ruger77Sig220_Ruger77 Member Posts: 12,754 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by dpmule
    Dependent on your route either before you go over the pass or after you come across. You should think about going through Sunlight basin/Crandall, they now call it the Chief Joseph highway, as he did use this drainage during his exodus from the Wallowa valley heading for Canada.
    Big beautiful views. Turn off is just north of Cooke city and the other end is just north of Cody.
    It was really nice years ago when it was still gravel and very little traffic.

    What's the dates you will be in the area?
    Mule


    It's looking like we will arrive in the Grand Teton/Yellowstone area June 21. We might camp in that area or grab a cabin or hotel that night. We will venture some more and though the Beartooth Pass June 22. That doesn't leave us a ton of time, but hey, it's what we got to work with and will give the wife a little taste of the area anyways.

    So basically, we will be in that area June 21 & 22(Wednesday & Thursday). We are scheduled to be in the Miles City area that Thursday night. We do have a day to "play with" though.

    Jon
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  • dpmuledpmule Member Posts: 6,746 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Just a update for your trip.
    Check the Yellowstone Park road conditions because as of now, they have the road between Fishing bridge and Canyon closed due to road damage and no estimate of when it will open.
    They just updated to one lane traffic.
    Check it here.
    https://www.nps.gov/yell/planyourvisit/conditions.htm

    Mule
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  • Sig220_Ruger77Sig220_Ruger77 Member Posts: 12,754 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by dpmule
    Just a update for your trip.
    Check the Yellowstone Park road conditions because as of now, they have the road between Fishing bridge and Canyon closed due to road damage and no estimate of when it will open.
    They just updated to one lane traffic.
    Check it here.
    https://www.nps.gov/yell/planyourvisit/conditions.htm

    Mule


    Thanks for that heads-up. I am hoping that road is open before we get there, as I was planning on taking it. We will work around it though if we have to.

    Jon
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  • spasmcreekspasmcreek Member Posts: 37,717 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    after reading the history i wish chief joesph had made it to Canada
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  • dpmuledpmule Member Posts: 6,746 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by spasmcreek
    after reading the history i wish chief joesph had made it to Canada

    If you could first hand view the terrain he and his band navigated from the Wallowa valley in Oregon to where they came out of the Clarks fork canyon in Wyoming, you would be doubly impressed with the man.
    I have and it is mind boggling and humbling.


    Mule
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