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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Nov 29, 2016 - 05:19pm PT
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DMT! Them California roads yere posting seem suspeciously smooth & I marvel at them nice metal signs without any bullet holes in them.
In Idaho, the out of towners shoot up the backcountry road signs & the locals remove the signs, to keep the out of towners out.
I don't have a problem with that.
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Nov 29, 2016 - 07:18pm PT
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DMT! Does Chuck Yeager live on Chuck Yeager road? Some redneck must have a grudge against one of America's heroes.
I met him at a Jackson Wyoming "ONE-FlY" championship dinner around 1990. Heidi & I had helped out the folks from Jack Dennis Sports, who sponsored the big fly fishing event, where contestants were limited to one & only one fly for their day of drift-boat fishing on the Snake River.
If a contestant lost the fly, they were out of the contest.
Chuck Yeager was on one of the celebrity fly-fishing teams. He was polite to me, but reverted to his test-pilot legacy & spent the evening doing his best to flirt with & impress Heidi.
She was amused, and I wasn't especially bothered.
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john hansen
climber
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Nov 29, 2016 - 07:41pm PT
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great thread. Lots of great pictures.
DMT,, can you post that photo of the hawk taking off from the pole over on the Birds thread? It would be fun to get an ID.
Out there in that terrain, this time of year, there are a lot of possibilities...
Hawks can be real hard , I am not good enough to ID it
, but someone there would know.
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Nov 30, 2016 - 08:23am PT
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This high mountain Idaho road wasn't showing much dirt after the hailstorm. I saw the storm coming from 10 miles downcanyon & thinking it might take out the fragile road over a high pass, I gunned my SUV up the road. Luckily the worst of the hail had passed by the time I got to that zone.
And yes, the storm did take out the road behind me.
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Nov 30, 2016 - 09:27pm PT
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Of course most Idaho dirt roads aren't very good roads.
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EdwardT
Trad climber
Retired
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Nice photos, Mike.
Tour Divide?
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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i spent the whole of two winters and the seasons in between a blessed 60/80 feet above the slop as a derrick hand on a rig working mostly in wyo's great divide basin. i loved my windy vantage.
the sunrise/sunset commutes on roads like these in a long wheelbase company truck offered up adaily honing of the full bore, four wheel drift enroute to/from location complete with workman's comp
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U.S. territories that encompassed land that would later become part of the Territory of Wyoming:
Louisiana Purchase, 18031804
District of Louisiana, 18041805
Territory of Louisiana, 18051812
Territory of Missouri, 18121821
Adams-Onํs Treaty, 1819
Former territorial claim of the Republic of Texas, 18451850
Mexican Cession, 18481850
Territory of Oregon, 18481859
State of Deseret, 18491850 (extralegal)
Territory of Utah, 18501896
Territory of Nebraska, 18541867
Territory of Washington, 18531889
Territory of Jefferson, 18591861 (extralegal)
Territory of Dakota, 18611889
Territory of Idaho, 18631890
there's a "cornerpost" out there where the british, spanish, and french flags once "met".
yo, californian's, show some respect: thanks to the electoral college, your influence
in the presidential race is diluted to quarter strength of a wyoming voter's
and come on man, you gotta give it up for alan simpson!
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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I really like this photo! -I meant the checker vision, though the speed limit is cool too. Though sometimes 1 mph is too fast....
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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DMT! That's a
HOLY SIGN!
Here's a Nevada miracle I saw in 2005 on a Back-country Byway.
A BLM sign without a hole in it.
I bet it's shot to schist by now.
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 7, 2016 - 07:09pm PT
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I hear that a VW rabbit with some oversize rubbers might just do the trick too.
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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2009 in deepest Idaho.
Look! It's a road!
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