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I've returned from my Montana trip. Oof, tired. I actually got back last night, but the only things I wanted last night were a shower, a shave, and sleep.
Some statistics for your edification:
Camping was a mixed bag, first night was ok, second night sucked, third night was fabulous. I was going to camp a fourth night, but the campground was so awful-looking, and I didn't have an alternate planned, so I set my sights on home, and more than doubled my riding day.
Yesterday was a bit mad, departing from Troy, MT (nearby, anyway, at the Bad Medicine Campground, which I highly recommend) at 9:30 MDT (aka 8:30 PDT), arriving at my intended destination around 2 pm PDT, deciding I'd rather ride 8 more hours than stay there, and got home at 10:45 PDT. Surprisingly, "butt burn" on a long ride like that gets up to a certain level of pain then just plateaus, so that's nice at least.
This is all going to turn into a lengthy write-up with lots of pictures interspersed, have no fear. For the moment, you can content yourself with thousands and thousands of pictures with no explanatory text, if you like.
I have pages and pages of notes I took to help me remember what all happened and what I experienced on the trip, which should help in constructing the trip report. Notable points included: hitting 71.3 MPG on one tank of gas; getting up to Logan Pass and the Continental Divide; having one of the Myrna Loy Theater's lights go "fizzle, fizzle, BANG!" inches from my face (no damage, just scary); twice having something very large walk close to my tent in the pitch black night, amidst conspicuous "recent bear activity!" signs; successfully riding over 500 miles in one day on slow back roads.
I'll post here when I've got the trip report up, just in case you're not in the habit of checking the other pages for activity.
Posted at 13:16 permanent link category: /motorcycle
Categories: all aviation Building a Biplane bicycle gadgets misc motorcycle theater