Backcountry mountain road trip - July 13, 2014 - Part Two

[Soapweed]

Old sign laying on the ground

A standing sign

The Department of the Interior has been around for awhile.

A road as far as you can see

Peach and the pickup

Typical mountain view

Not sure what is on the rock but it isn't a bird

More snow

There is a bird on this rock.

There were cattle to be seen.

Not sure if this is a herd bull or a bull in the herd

This bull has ruined himself, but that might not be all bad.

A Hereford inhabits the area.

Self explanatory

The river to the east

The river to the northwest

Self explanatory once again

Mountain vista

A disappointing sign. Many miles would have been cut off of the trip had we been able to take this road. Oh well, we got to see
lots more pretty country.

Looking at the map, we had planned to take this road.

Nice folks that gave us directions

They had traveled over a hundred miles of back country roads already on this day.

It's a long way to just about anywhere.

Horses in the high country

Meanwhile, back at the ranch the next day....

Day care with grandkids is still a project.

 

[Faster horses]

Arminto? Wow, Soap, you were really a long way from anywhere! That is some lonesome country. :shock:


When I was just a teenager, I helped drive a small herd of horses from Buffalo, Wy to Arminto. The guy we were helping was a salty hand and he finally gave up and trucked them part of the way. That was some trip.

So, where from Arminto did you go to get to the Big Horns?

 

[Soapweed]

Arminto? Wow, Soap, you were really a long way from anywhere! That is some lonesome country. :shock:


When I was just a teenager, I helped drive a small herd of horses from Buffalo, Wy to Arminto. The guy we were helping was a salty hand and he finally gave up and trucked them part of the way. That was some trip.

So, where from Arminto did you go to get to the Big Horns?

Northeast from Arminto to the "33 Mile Road," then hang a left and follow until coming out at Big Trail, then Tensleep, and back over the top to Buffalo, then use the new 80 mph speed limit back to Casper and Highway 20. It was a nice scenic trip.

 

[Faster horses]

Arminto? Wow, Soap, you were really a long way from anywhere! That is some lonesome country. :shock:


When I was just a teenager, I helped drive a small herd of horses from Buffalo, Wy to Arminto. The guy we were helping was a salty hand and he finally gave up and trucked them part of the way. That was some trip.

So, where from Arminto did you go to get to the Big Horns?

Northeast from Arminto to the "33 Mile Road," then hang a left and follow until coming out at Big Trail, then Tensleep, and back over the top to Buffalo, then use the new 80 mph speed limit back to Casper and Highway 20. It was a nice scenic trip.

Big Horn Mountains were Mr. FH old stomping grounds. He spent a lot of time in them. We are planning to go camping there sometime in the next couple of weeks. Haven't done that for awhile.
Glad you had a nice trip. Sometime when you go there, go down, or up,
Crazy Woman Canyon. That drive is SCENIC! (Unless you travel in a car,
then it's not so much fun.)

 

[Soapweed]

Arminto? Wow, Soap, you were really a long way from anywhere! That is some lonesome country. :shock:


When I was just a teenager, I helped drive a small herd of horses from Buffalo, Wy to Arminto. The guy we were helping was a salty hand and he finally gave up and trucked them part of the way. That was some trip.

So, where from Arminto did you go to get to the Big Horns?

Northeast from Arminto to the "33 Mile Road," then hang a left and follow until coming out at Big Trail, then Tensleep, and back over the top to Buffalo, then use the new 80 mph speed limit back to Casper and Highway 20. It was a nice scenic trip.

Big Horn Mountains were Mr. FH old stomping grounds. He spent a lot of time in them. We are planning to go camping there sometime in the next couple of weeks. Haven't done that for awhile.
Glad you had a nice trip. Sometime when you go there, go down, or up,
Crazy Woman Canyon. That drive is SCENIC! (Unless you travel in a car,
then it's not so much fun.)

We had actually planned to go down Crazy Woman Canyon after we left Tensleep headed east, but by the time we got to the turn-off, it was raining pretty hard. Not knowing how the road might be, we decided to stick with the hardtop highway.

 

[Faster horses]

Northeast from Arminto to the "33 Mile Road," then hang a left and follow until coming out at Big Trail, then Tensleep, and back over the top to Buffalo, then use the new 80 mph speed limit back to Casper and Highway 20. It was a nice scenic trip.

Big Horn Mountains were Mr. FH old stomping grounds. He spent a lot of time in them. We are planning to go camping there sometime in the next couple of weeks. Haven't done that for awhile.
Glad you had a nice trip. Sometime when you go there, go down, or up,
Crazy Woman Canyon. That drive is SCENIC! (Unless you travel in a car,
then it's not so much fun.)

We had actually planned to go down Crazy Woman Canyon after we left Tensleep headed east, but by the time we got to the turn-off, it was raining pretty hard. Not knowing how the road might be, we decided to stick with the hardtop highway.

You chose to do the right thing! If I can find some old pictures, I'll try and post a couple of them here and you can see why you wouldn't want to be there in a rainstorm. Or a car.

 

[Faster horses]

Soapweed, just to show you a little of what you missed, this time. But there is always another time, right?

Crazy Woman Canyon--more a trail than a road! But worth the trip.

 

[Soapweed]

I'm sorry we missed that part of the tour, Faster horses. Looks like a scenic side trip.

 

[jodywy]

Arminto at one time had the largest safe in the State of Wyoming. In the fall thousand of head of cattle and sheep were trailed down from the Big Horns then sold and loaded on the rail road there. The Army had a marching road from there to the fort at Buffalo. There was a gun fight along it between locals and thought to be outlaws and cowboys from the CY.

 

[Cedarcreek]

I was down in that area for the first time over the 4th of July. My wife's aunt and uncle ranch south of Tensleep. Interesting country with lots of history.