We are up and away fairly early this morning so we can start our trek up the Big Horn Mountains (heading east to west) before the weather gets too warm. We know from past experience, the change in elevation from around 5,000 ft at Sheridan to the 10,000 ft on top of the Big Horn puts a significant strain on the transmission of the truck. This climb is quite rapid, occurring in less than 10 miles. Fortunately, the new transmission we installed before we began this trip should be up to the task.
We failed to include this photograph on our last posting. Before we left our spot at Tongue River, Meriam and I took another walk and came across this boondocker. Check out his rig and contents! His rig includes living quarters (complete with slide out) as well as room for his two horses and their portable, knock-down corrals and feeding buckets. He pulls this rig with a new Ford F350 truck. We were certainly in good company on this site. We estimate the trailer and truck costs more than $200,000 and this does not include the horses. The owner told us this was the “home away from home” for the horses.About halfway up the climb to the top of the Big Horn, there was a pull out giving some great views. In the foreground you can see some of the winding road going up the mountain. For you geologist of the group, can you identify the red topped, parallel formations in the middle of the photograph? In the distance is the town of Sheridan.Another view from the same pullout. The tree line in the far distance follows the Tongue River, where we camped last night. I particularly like the faint “God rays” on the right center, coming down from the sky.Driving along highway 14a, we came across this young buck moose. Here are a couple of his friend. Note the tracking collar someone has placed on the moose on the left.Fireweed pocking its head up, seemingly out of solid rock, right outside our camper window.A view from our boondocking site. While highway 14a is about 1 mile from our site, it was incredibly peaceful, with no humans in sight.The cloud formations here create some magnificent evening sunsets.I am intrigued by panoramas and enjoy creating them. This panorama above was created from 5 different photographs, taken from left to right. Each photograph overlaps the previous photograph by about 15%. I use a software program which then “merges” these five photographs into the one you see here. We use panoramas to create multi-page spreads in our coffee table books.
HaroldThanks, Weldon. They are fun to shoot and to generate. The only thing I need to remember is to reset my camera after the shoot. I have to change all my settings to shoot a pano.ReplyCancel
HaroldToo right, Bob. The four days we were up on the Big Horn, the only people we saw were in the cars that passed on the highway a mile away!ReplyCancel
maoBeautiful views! I love traveling with the Blairs.ReplyCancel
HaroldThanks, MAO. Travel with us anytime!ReplyCancel
Stacy IllsThe scenery is breathtaking. You are quite the photographer HB! You won’t believe this, but this morning, it was 65 degrees and little humidity. Nice respite😊ReplyCancel
HaroldAwesome, Stacy. You guys weren’t much warmer than us. Last night it was about 60 (we are now done from the Big Horn, at about 7,000 ft. Fortunately the humidity is probably -30 :-).ReplyCancel
Peggy PainterBeautiful scenes…love traveling with you.ReplyCancel
HaroldThanks Peggy. Have you and Cled been playing much bridge? MB and I play online a fair amount, but since COVID we haven’t played with anyone else. Guess we will wait until a vaccine is available before we do.ReplyCancel
HaroldThanks, Kim. We appreciate all the comments. It’s fun for us to “talk” with folks while we travel.ReplyCancel
Fran & JimIt ain’t fair! U splice 5 pix into a seamless panorama, & I can’t scroll around on a computer. But gorgeous!ReplyCancel
HaroldMaybe not Fran, but your puns are way better than mine!ReplyCancel
Charles Kemp50 years ago, I went antelope hunting in Wy. I had a friend that converted an old school bus to a travel camper—slept 5 of us ( included my Dad) and had a small kitchen and we pulled a jeep behind us. We camped on the Little Big Horn river, hunted for 3 days and killed a few antelope. It took a while to get there and back because the bus only drove 45 mph. Great trip!!!! ReplyCancel
HaroldDo you remember where on the Little Big Horn? I can sympathize with you on driving 45. MB and I only drive 55 nowadays with the camper on. On one of our trips to Alaska (~15,000 miles), we counted the number of vehicles we passed…a total of 3!
BTW, how is antelope to eat? I suspect it would have a wild taste.ReplyCancel
Charles KempAntelope is about the best wild game to eat, flavorful but mild, we cooked tenderloin steaks over a wood fire. ReplyCancel
HaroldYummy, I would have thought they would be tough and very strong tasting.ReplyCancel
KayI love going on a trip with y’all! The Panorama was beautiful and interesting. ReplyCancel
HaroldWe wish you guys were here traveling with us…ReplyCancel
Joseph G HuntGreat views, thank you
HaroldGary, you are most welcome, glad you joined, and thanks for traveling with us!
Weldon W NashGreat panorama!
HaroldThanks, Weldon. They are fun to shoot and to generate. The only thing I need to remember is to reset my camera after the shoot. I have to change all my settings to shoot a pano.
Bob ThomasJust beautiful. Peaceful.
HaroldToo right, Bob. The four days we were up on the Big Horn, the only people we saw were in the cars that passed on the highway a mile away!
maoBeautiful views! I love traveling with the Blairs.
HaroldThanks, MAO. Travel with us anytime!
Stacy IllsThe scenery is breathtaking. You are quite the photographer HB! You won’t believe this, but this morning, it was 65 degrees and little humidity. Nice respite😊
HaroldAwesome, Stacy. You guys weren’t much warmer than us. Last night it was about 60 (we are now done from the Big Horn, at about 7,000 ft. Fortunately the humidity is probably -30 :-).
Peggy PainterBeautiful scenes…love traveling with you.
HaroldThanks Peggy. Have you and Cled been playing much bridge? MB and I play online a fair amount, but since COVID we haven’t played with anyone else. Guess we will wait until a vaccine is available before we do.
Kim ShawLove all the pictures!
HaroldThanks, Kim. We appreciate all the comments. It’s fun for us to “talk” with folks while we travel.
Fran & JimIt ain’t fair! U splice 5 pix into a seamless panorama, & I can’t scroll around on a computer. But gorgeous!
HaroldMaybe not Fran, but your puns are way better than mine!
Charles Kemp50 years ago, I went antelope hunting in Wy. I had a friend that converted an old school bus to a travel camper—slept 5 of us ( included my Dad) and had a small kitchen and we pulled a jeep behind us. We camped on the Little Big Horn river, hunted for 3 days and killed a few antelope. It took a while to get there and back because the bus only drove 45 mph. Great trip!!!!
HaroldDo you remember where on the Little Big Horn? I can sympathize with you on driving 45. MB and I only drive 55 nowadays with the camper on. On one of our trips to Alaska (~15,000 miles), we counted the number of vehicles we passed…a total of 3!
BTW, how is antelope to eat? I suspect it would have a wild taste.
Charles KempAntelope is about the best wild game to eat, flavorful but mild, we cooked tenderloin steaks over a wood fire.
HaroldYummy, I would have thought they would be tough and very strong tasting.
KayI love going on a trip with y’all! The Panorama was beautiful and interesting.
HaroldWe wish you guys were here traveling with us…