All winter while planning this trip, I kept hearing and reading about 2 highways in Wyoming that was a must ride. Chief Joseph Highway and Bear Tooth Highway. Bear Tooth Highway was voted the number 1 rode in the nation by motorcyclist to ride on. I couldn’t pass up the opportunity.
Saturday morning, we left Cody and hit Chief Joseph. That highway itself is just beautiful and climbs up from a valley a great height.
We stopped at a scenic stop and the view was spectacular.
This next picture appears to have me pointing at something but I was just trying to show Judy that I had flung the buggar off of my finger and I didn’t have it on there anymore.
We were getting hungry and came upon this restaurant out in the middle of nowhere. As luck would have it, the town that we would be ending up in was having a Harley Rally. They had estimated 10,000 bikes there that day and this restaurant was one of the riders destination that day.
We had a hamburger and braut and sat out on the back porch to eat our lunch. It was overlooking a branch of the Yellowstone River.
After leaving lunch, we started on up the mountain and came across this mountain stream.
Judy decided to see how cold it was so she walked down and put her hand in the water. This next picture says it all as you can see in her expression.
She said it was colder than a witches waduby, whatever that is. There were also wild flowers growing all over the mountains and we got a picture of some of them with other mountains in the background.
It was amazing just how much snow was still on the mountain. We had heard that they had to close the highway 2 weeks before because it got snowed in. The following are some snow pictures.
That snow was so cold, it made my hair stand on end.
Part 2 of Bear Tooth Highway tomorrow.