Bighorn Mountains

[BlackHills]

I'm fortunate to live not too far from the Bighorns and I usually go up there at least once a week during riding season. Saturday I did my most common route to Buffalo (WY) via US 16. That road never gets old to me and I just love it...I also know it like the back of my hand. It was a picture perfect day and a lot of the snow that was up high last weekend has melted off.







Sunday I decided to go a different route. The weather didn’t look too bad at home but the further north I went the worse it looked. I decided to press on and figured that I could always turn back if it was too bad. It turned out fine - I dodged all of the rain that was around except for about 2 miles of sprinkles on the way home.

I went to Burgess Junction which is in the northern part of the Bighorns. I couldn’t go up Shell Canyon as it’s closed due to a landslide so I had to ride to Lovell and then east (US 14A). I had never been up this road before and it was nice and curvy though it had a fair amount of places with road damage. There are some serious grades on this road and I can’t imagine trying to come down the mountain with a motorhome or pulling a travel trailer, though I saw people doing just that. There’s a lot more snow at this end of the Bighorns and it was pretty chilly for a while.

Total mileage for the weekend was approximately 740 miles.

On the way up….



Brrrrrr (There was about 8-10 miles that looked like this)





“I can see for miles and miles….”



On the way home between Lovell and Greybull….

[bzr]

nice to read a warm & smuggley!

[Bill_Anderson]

Thanks for the photos. I drove through that area when I moved from Chicagoland to the Puget Sound area back in 1991.