I'm just going to post a link to our pics at photo-bucket instead of posting them on the board. It just takes too long to post them with my slow internet connection.
http://s944.photobucket.com/albums/ad282/frye5801/The%20Great%20North%20West/Sorry they're not better organized and labeled. Just seems like time is always separating what I want to do from what I can get done.
About the pics.
The pics with the rainbow behind the bikes were taken in Idaho and the mountains you see in the background are the Grand Tetons.
The moose. Andy spotted the moose just after we had passed from Idaho back into Wyoming, we parked beside the road and he snuck into the woods a little ways to get the pics, guess it pays to be a bowhunter. Still, I think the moose knew something was there and was headed for parts unknown pretty quickly.
The bear and most of the bison were in Yellowstone. Most of the waterfalls were in Glacier National Park along the "Going to the Sun Highway" which featured lots of road construction and 30 minute delays. We didn't really mind the delays, they gave us a chance to take pics and visit with the riders and cagers we were sharing the road with.
http://www.nps.gov/glac/planyourvisit/goingtothesunroad.htmMost of the snow was on the Beartooth Highway which was probably the best road of the trip. There was a lot of road construction on it too and in several places it was reduced to a one-lane dirt road with a "lead car" to lead groups of cars and bikes through the construction. It was way cool but there are parts of it I wouldn't want to ride it in the dark. We met the guy on the victory during one of the long construction delays. He bought it from a dealer on the West coast so he could fly there and ride it back to the Eastern Mountains where he lived.
http://www.beartoothhighway.com/We stayed one night in Jackson Hole and one night in Cody Wyoming. The road between Yellowstone and Cody was an excellent road for riding if you could avoid the times of heavy traffic.
We had planned this as a 14 day trip but I could only get 9 days off work so it went from a leisurely trip to a much faster paced trip but it couldn't have been much more fun. However the pace and the long days did cause us to try to cram a lot of memories into our heads in a very short amount of time. Time will show us how well that works out!
