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From Dubois we headed to Lander. This was an interesting drive, with the look of a mix of Utah desert and Colorado mountains. Once in Lander, we needed to get our bearings on what to do next. I wanted to head west into the Popo Agie Wilderness...

That's a great story. That road north out of Dubois is a legit mountain highway. It was such a pretty drive that I didn't think to take a single picture the whole stretch from Moran to Dubois.

3rd time was a charm. It was HOT though, mid 90's, dry as a furnace fan in Phoenix Arizona. The dry fly action was hot too.

What a trip! Thanks for sharing. In 1990 I moved from Wichita Ks to Seattle, and on the drive there in mid-April IIRC I thought it would be cool to drive up through Yellowstone from the Denver area (my parent’s home). I was in my Porsche 944...

This is what 40’s were supposed to do. Adventure!!! Love it.

This^^

What an epic trip.

So the burn ban which was now in place was very limiting. We learned that a Stage 1 ban in Wyoming means that fires are allowed only in developed campgrounds, which are not really our style. However, we found some good middle ground: these canvas...

A bit late here, but for future reference, the filter mount from the 1UR FE in the Lexus GX460 could be a clearance/problem solver here. The good is that it mounts the filter horizontally which gains an inch or two of clearance. The bad is that...

Wes and I had talked about maybe getting to Yellowstone if we had the energy to get that far north. By this point, Jackson was only about 60 miles from the south entrance. So, we pushed north and caught Old Faithful right on time. It was really...

We drove north on 191 and arrived in Jackson for an early lunch. Had a beer and tacos at a really cool little Asian BBQ joint. It was overpriced, but we were in Jackson after all. This town is a strange mix of flashy trust funder wannabes and...

We rolled into Pinedale around 3 PM that afternoon and were stopped in our tracks to our road to Green River Lakes. I had found a ridge top camp site on Google Earth with a two-track road going all the way to the top. We found out pretty fast...

The route we took was quintessential Wyoming back roads. We had a blast navigating these towards the northwest. Some really cool sights along the way.

The road up to Steamboat Mountain was very remote. It feels a lot like Big Bend around here. Even though the winds were light down below, I had some concerns about it getting windy on the plateau. Sure enough, the winds kicked up right around...

We cruised on towards Steamboat Mountain, traversing the edge of the Killpecker Sand Dunes on the way.

I used to live in Laramie and I'd always love the drives up into the Snowy's . My 2.7 Tacoma however did not love it. I miss the night sky out there all the time.

So far...hells yeah....

I can double check with him. But, if memory serves me correct, I thought it was 3M thinsulate.

Looks awesome.

I ❤️ WY Also 40 trips rock

We awoke the next morning with an ambitious goal of making it to Rock Springs by early afternoon to meet Craig off of I-80. It was going to be close to 200 miles just to Rock Springs, plus another ~50 on the dirt to Steamboat Mountain for camping...

A beautiful sunset met us as we found camp that night around 8PM. We grilled steaks over the fire and stayed up late with the usual shenanigans that one would expect. Temps were chilly but not cold, and there was almost zero wind.

Love me some 100 mile horizon's. Don't fence me in!

Things got really pretty really fast as we got off of pavement. This gradually became one of the roughest trails I've ever been on. Despite destroying two camp showers, spilling gasoline on gear, snapping a bolt on my trailer rack, breaking the...

Wyoming 130 is a beautiful 2-lane scenic byway which crosses directly through the Snowy Range and Medicine Bow Mountains. It works its way up to some decently high elevations and to where we got off of pavement.