Day 8 – Saturday, June 30 – Red Lodge MT to Sheridan WY
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| Dude Feeding Wildlife |
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| Sorry Dude, No Food! |
Bear Tooth Highway over the pass proved to be nearly as good as Glacier. However, it was different. There was no
charge to go through it, since it is not a national park. It does have some of the same similarities as
Glacier. The views were awesome, the
mountain peaks had snow on them, and there were plenty of visitors. The road is around 68 miles long and joins up
to Chief
Joseph Scenic Highway, also called Wyoming
Highway 296, which is around 46 miles long.
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| Rob at 10,947 Feet |
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| Kathy, Theresa, Ronnie at 10,947 Feet |
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| Beauty Abounds |
Coupled up, the Bear Tooth Highway
and Chief Joseph Scenic Highway are well over 100 miles of twists, turns,
elevation changes, and beautiful scenery abounds. Chief Joseph takes you right in to Cody
Wyoming. However, we were ready to get
off of Chief Joseph Scenic Highway due to the tar
snakes, since they don’t mix well with
motorcycles, especially when the weather is warm.
About ¾ the way through Chief Joseph
Scenic Highway, we encountered a couple of emergency vehicles, then a couple
more, then a couple more… Around 8 in
total police, ambulances, fire trucks, etc.
Something bad must have happened, but not sure what. It is an eerie feeling when you are riding a
motorcycle and seeing that many emergency vehicles.
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| Lake Creek Falls - Beartooth |
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| Theresa and Kathy at the Falls |
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| Last Day of Skiing |
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| Dont Try This At Home |
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| Beartooth Lake |
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| Silver Dollar Saloon - Cody WY |
We rolled in to Cody and toured the
town for the Honda dealer to get Ronnie’s bike scoped to see what error code it
was throwing. As bad luck had it, the
Honda reseller was not a certified garage, which Honda only allows to do
service work and scope for error codes.
We had to wait for Rapid City since there was an authorized repair shop
there. That completed, we went downtown
and looked for a place to eat. We hit
the Silver
Dollar Saloon for lunch, which was a hit.
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| Chief Joseph Scenic Highway (note GPS) |
There was a rodeo
during the time we were in Cody, so stopping here for the night was not going
to be an option. So after lunch, we
headed east towards the Big Horns in order to get to Sheridan. Our route took us through the northern section
of Wyoming, where we smelled smoke from the fires in Montana drifting
down. Once we got close to the Big
Horns, we paused for a rest stop and to get water for us and fuel for the
bikes. On our way in to the mountains,
we met back up with a guy running a Honda Valkyrie, which was similar to a bike
like Ronnie used to own. The gentleman
was pleasant to talk to and stated he was from the Sheridan area. He stated he was going to run the northern
pass, which is 14A over to 14 Hwy, since he didn’t take that route coming over
the last time. So, we followed him… up the old 14A, which was closed. It was a bleak less than 2 lane road that
snaked up the hill towards a camping ground and looked less traveled than any
road we had been on. After he trekked up
the mountainside a ways, we noticed he turned around. We stopped and chatted
with him again and he said the road was closed and that we needed to turn
around to get back on the highway. So we
did, back on to 14A, the intended route.
What scenery this was. The
highway joined up with 14 a ways in, which took us right to Sheridan.
We stopped in Sheridan for some
gas, checked out a hotel in the same parking lot, and then decided on looking
for a dinner spot to inquire about more motels availability and prices. We looked at the gps again for places to eat,
which we though we had found a Mexican cuisine restaurant. No such luck, as both were shut down. We ended up going to downtown to a place
called Sanford’s
Pub and Grub.
It was a hit with all of us, since the menu was filled with a lot of
options. The best part - $1 domestic
pints with food purchase, all day, every day.
Score! We called hotels and
motels again and found a place called Alamo
Motel, which was a local place with a double room,
three-bed option for $79. Score again!
Other highlights:
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Miles: ~ 270
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