The thousand or so miles of corn and beans between Chicago and western Wyoming looked great, especially as we neared some of our old stomping grounds, way out West. We enjoy scenic driving, but this was also nostalgic driving, revisiting favorite and storied places. All this in mid-July.
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| Weirdest truck-stop cacophony ever...a large truck filled with chicks, thousands of them, tweeting away over the din of the 18-wheelers |
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| Interesting rocks in far western Nebraska |
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| At the Walmart by the U of Wyoming |
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We got stuck once, probably 1972, trying to get to the Winds (Wind River Mountain range in Wyoming) on the Muddy Speedway |
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Gateway, miles down a very rough road, to the southern bit of the Winds, the Cirque of Towers, Warbonnet Peak, where we had some good times |
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| Winds in the background, Cirque of Towers in there somewhere |
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| New-fangled critter crossings that weren't there in the 70s; varmintalism... |
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| On the gravel road to the Green River Lakes, in the Winds; and the cut-off to Union Pass...in the winter, snowmobiling, we'd often be on it to get back to the motel near Union Pass; had an interesting mishap and dig-out there once.... |
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| Upper (Lower?) Green River Lake, with Squaretop in the background |
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| The plan, in 1995, was for me to climb Squaretop, but the melt stranded us on the wrong side of the flooded river, with 1400 calories between us...and an apparently territorial bull moose who persuaded us to try a river crossing...the full story is here; spoiler alert: Vicki survived |
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| Way downstream, the Green, major tributary of the Colorado |
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| Not so nasty in high summer |
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| Good fishin' |
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| Beetle-kill, doing a number here as elsewhere in the forests of the West and Northwest |
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