Took a nice trip up to Yellowstone this weekend. Just got back and am dead tired, so I'm not going to post pictures and synopsis at the moment. I will post maps for the 3 days, though. Google Maps, again, I'm afraid, as braniac here (read: me) reset the logs on the GPS.
Day 1
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Day 2
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Day 3
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Sunday, May 18, 2008
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Noice!
Yeah well, it's been a while. What can I say? Haven't done much *real* riding lately, but got out for about a ~225 mile ride today. I haven't gotten a bracket for my Boulevard yet to hold the Garmin, so I don't yet have the good ol' GPX files for exporting. But, I do have a link to a Google Maps page that I mapped out. You can find that heeya:
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It was a great day for riding. Overcast, but warm. There was a bit more wind than I like, but not so much as to make it uncomfortable. I took some crummy pics with my crummy iPhone camera, but they're really not much to look at. In fact, I hesitate to post them. Yeah, after reviewing them again, I'm just not even going to bother. The camera in the iPhone is just hideous. Don't even want to deal with it.
Hit a couple areas I've never been before, though. Namely, from Henefer, UT to Ogden, UT as well as Highway 150 out of Kamas. My intention was to take 150 up to Evanston, then 89 to Woodruff, then 39 back down into Ogden. My atlas shows those roads being closed for "winter" but I was unaware that in Utah, winter is considered to be all the way until the end-ish of June. Who knew? It was a shame, too, because the roads were perfect all the way until the closures. I can't believe that the roads mysteriously got bad after the signs. (In fact, judging by the lack of snow on the ground, I'm thinking they were just fine.) I was tempted to just keep on trucking, but thought better of it.
The area around Henefer is just gorgeous. Having never been there (or as far north as Ogden, for that matter) I wasn't sure what to expect. West of Henefer is just lucious green, though, and the highway down to the lake I had to turn around at (another road closure) was awesome. Definitely will be heading back up there at some point when the roads are open for the summer.
I'm thinking maybe later in the year I'll head back up my original route to Evanston, but perhaps just keep heading north to Grand Teton Nat'l Park by way of the "back" highways. I know, I know, it's a tourism nightmare during the summer, but I've wanted to go back up towards Yellowstone since I was a kid and saw it for the first time. I have so many places I want to go this summer, though, who knows if I'll get to it. Oregon is calling pretty loudly, too.
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It was a great day for riding. Overcast, but warm. There was a bit more wind than I like, but not so much as to make it uncomfortable. I took some crummy pics with my crummy iPhone camera, but they're really not much to look at. In fact, I hesitate to post them. Yeah, after reviewing them again, I'm just not even going to bother. The camera in the iPhone is just hideous. Don't even want to deal with it.
Hit a couple areas I've never been before, though. Namely, from Henefer, UT to Ogden, UT as well as Highway 150 out of Kamas. My intention was to take 150 up to Evanston, then 89 to Woodruff, then 39 back down into Ogden. My atlas shows those roads being closed for "winter" but I was unaware that in Utah, winter is considered to be all the way until the end-ish of June. Who knew? It was a shame, too, because the roads were perfect all the way until the closures. I can't believe that the roads mysteriously got bad after the signs. (In fact, judging by the lack of snow on the ground, I'm thinking they were just fine.) I was tempted to just keep on trucking, but thought better of it.
The area around Henefer is just gorgeous. Having never been there (or as far north as Ogden, for that matter) I wasn't sure what to expect. West of Henefer is just lucious green, though, and the highway down to the lake I had to turn around at (another road closure) was awesome. Definitely will be heading back up there at some point when the roads are open for the summer.
I'm thinking maybe later in the year I'll head back up my original route to Evanston, but perhaps just keep heading north to Grand Teton Nat'l Park by way of the "back" highways. I know, I know, it's a tourism nightmare during the summer, but I've wanted to go back up towards Yellowstone since I was a kid and saw it for the first time. I have so many places I want to go this summer, though, who knows if I'll get to it. Oregon is calling pretty loudly, too.
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