Snowmobiling blues...

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Wyoming terrain is as varied as you can find; badlands to sage to high meadows to alpine forest; you can get that transition in a matter of 10 miles in a few places. I like all the mixed high meadow and forest areas anywhere out in the northern Rockies; very pretty, and the grasses are a sign of deep snow in winter.

But it sure is nice that you can just drive out a ways, go riding, and then drive back home.
 
nm9stheham said:
Wyoming terrain is as varied as you can find; badlands to sage to high meadows to alpine forest; you can get that transition in a matter of 10 miles in a few places. I like all the mixed high meadow and forest areas anywhere out in the northern Rockies; very pretty, and the grasses are a sign of deep snow in winter.

But it sure is nice that you can just drive out a ways, go riding, and then drive back home.
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Yes living in the outer Southeast Portland area we still live under 100 foot pine trees and I fight the moss on my roof constantly LOL but it's an hour and 15 minutes to the parking lot where we launch our snowmobiles. And my wife was saying if the snow isn't good next week and the weather is we should go to the beach with the dogs which is about an hour and a half or less the other way and we can drive out onto the beach put out our chairs and watch the dogs run a muck...
Actually we're just as close to mount st. Helens over in Washington. what we need to find some people that snowmobile over there and join them and learn some new stuff. We have been to hoodoo, and stop there for an afternoon ride on our way to Paulina Lake for a couple days of riding. I think one of the more epic trail rides was going to the top of Mount Bailey at 8000 feet on the peak. The groomed Trail up there is quite awesome..
 
nm9stheham said:
Wyoming terrain is as varied as you can find; badlands to sage to high meadows to alpine forest; you can get that transition in a matter of 10 miles in a few places. I like all the mixed high meadow and forest areas anywhere out in the northern Rockies; very pretty, and the grasses are a sign of deep snow in winter.

But it sure is nice that you can just drive out a ways, go riding, and then drive back home.
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Wyoming is beautiful. I've been all over it. Yellowstone, Jackson Hole, Grand Tetons...… Cody is a beautiful town, Big Horn Mtns by Sheridan..... All of I-90 is beautiful.... I lived 30 miles from Cheyenne at one point.....
 
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Both pictures are on about a 50 foot circle at the top of Mount Bailey. The first one is overlooking diamond lake and in the background is Mount Thielsen.
 
Cool! Thanks for the pix. Doubt we will ever make it out that far for 'mobiling but nice to see it.
318willrun said:
Wyoming is beautiful. I've been all over it. Yellowstone, Jackson Hole, Grand Tetons...… Cody is a beautiful town, Big Horn Mtns by Sheridan..... All of I-90 is beautiful.... I lived 30 miles from Cheyenne at one point.....
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Wow, and you survived the winter winds there? LOL, central east, SE, and south central WY is where I would pass upon.... those are the windiest areas in the continental US. That extends into western Nebraska, NW CO, and even parts of the western Dakotas. 40-50 mph steady winds at times in winter storms....BTDT.
 
nm9stheham said:
Cool! Thanks for the pix. Doubt we will ever make it out that far for 'mobiling but nice to see it.
Wow, and you survived the winter winds there? LOL, central east, SE, and south central WY is where I would pass upon.... those are the windiest areas in the continental US. That extends into western Nebraska, NW CO, and even parts of the western Dakotas. 40-50 mph steady winds at times in winter storms....BTDT.
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Lived across the Wy border in Colo as a kid. We stayed in Laramie for a couple of weeks while Dad was on the dynamite crew laying a pipe line. He also worked in Wheatland, Wy building power plants. But me and my wife has traveled to Yellowstone, going all the way across on 90.

My Grandma lived in Black Hills, so we cut up through New Castle, Wy to go see her.
 
Epic last day on the snow! We went to Mount Bachelor and launched at Dutchman flat sno-park and Road the 11 and 1/2 mile trip to Elk Lake Lodge. (Only accessible by snowmobile, skis, snowshoes which would be a very long shoe, or you could book a ride on this snowmobile track SUV which will probably cost money) We had a great lunch and a Diet Coke and a regular Coke LOL.. scenery was beyond awesome and the trail system was excellent..
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Tnx... pretty low elevation for a lot of snow, but there is a lot of cloudiness in that area that seems to promote snow buildup... or just maybe the cloudiness correlates with more precipitation. 6400' elevation in winter in WY would be mostly dry in winter and very little snow for most spots. But go up in NW MT and northern ID, where it is cloudier than average too, you get lots of snow at low elevations.
 
nm9stheham said:
Tnx... pretty low elevation for a lot of snow, but there is a lot of cloudiness in that area that seems to promote snow buildup... or just maybe the cloudiness correlates with more precipitation. 6400' elevation in winter in WY would be mostly dry in winter and very little snow for most spots. But go up in NW MT and northern ID, where it is cloudier than average too, you get lots of snow at low elevations.
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Yeah I Mount Hood the snowmobiling starts around 4, 000 ft and maybe gets up to five or six. Mount Bachelor still getting snow, but again that's down at the base..
 
I usually get the American snowmobiler but somehow I got the snow west magazine? It came in my wife's name and I don't know if we accidentally got a second subscription or what??..
 
j par said:
I usually get the American snowmobiler but somehow I got the snow west magazine? It came in my wife's name and I don't know if we accidentally got a second subscription or what??..
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Well a little reading in my new SnoWest magazine and found out that American snowmobiler is going out of business after 34 years. So SnoWest picked up all their subscriptions and is now sending out a SnoWest magazine instead. I already like it better as it really focuses on the west side of the US and our Mountain riding style and our kinds of sleds as opposed to flatland Trail sleds.. :thumbsup:...
it's going to be a couple years before I can even think about talking to the wife about it but I really would like an alpha one.. by that time hopefully and Alpha 2 LOL..:thumbsup:..
 
nm9stheham said:
Wyoming terrain is as varied as you can find; badlands to sage to high meadows to alpine forest; you can get that transition in a matter of 10 miles in a few places. I like all the mixed high meadow and forest areas anywhere out in the northern Rockies; very pretty, and the grasses are a sign of deep snow in winter.

But it sure is nice that you can just drive out a ways, go riding, and then drive back home.
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Any plans for this year?..
 
j par said:
Any plans for this year?..
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Hey JP! Thanks for asking; been off this site for a while working on my Opel stuff.

May be going back to Maine this year, up near Rangeley; thought about ON and QC too. Kinda waiting to get through a few projects for work.... being a contractor makes your plans HIGHLY variable.....

BTW, I get on a Doo forum site and there was a thread there titled "Is Arctic Cat going down?" I thought of you and your AC's every time I got on that thread LOL

So are you out in the snow yet?

And, FWIW.... I keep creeping closer to getting a place out that way.... 2 places, 1 near Togwotee Pass and 1 up near West Yellowstone, are leading the pack right now! SNOW country! Woo hoo!

BTW, I tune in the live webcam from Togwotee Lodge every now and then to keeps tabs. Just watched a guy flip his sled on its side in the parking lot LOL
See Togwotee Pass - Togwotee Mountain Lodge Live Webcam - SeeJH.com
 
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