Wasted day,.....

Malamute · Post by **Malamute** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 12:34 pm

Wasn't excited about cleaning the house, so I took a drive Sunday afternoon. I wasted the whole afternoon.

Guess it wasn't a complete waste of time tho.

Saw about 300 to 400 deer, and around 300 elks.

Sorry if they are too high density, I don't know how to change that.

Old Ironsights · Post by **Old Ironsights** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 12:38 pm

I've been there. Use'ta live in Lander...

dr walker · Post by **dr walker** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 12:40 pm

Great shots, what a way to spend the day. thanks for sharing.

Post by **Hobie** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 12:55 pm

Wonderful photos...

PaperPatch · Post by **PaperPatch** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 1:10 pm

Yep.....The house can wait.

Rod WMG · Post by **Rod WMG** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 1:14 pm

Nice pix!

I likes elks!

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 1:17 pm

Doesn't look like it was a waste to me. Beautiful country we live in.

Johnny

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 1:26 pm

Sure looks like it was more productive than my day! Beautiful scenery! Thanks for taking us on your drive!

RKrodle · Post by **RKrodle** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 1:33 pm

WOW!!!

jnyork · Post by **jnyork** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 1:42 pm

Hmmmm, looks vaguely familiar!!

( we live in Lander)

Very nice shots, and aren't we blessed to be living in God's Country!

Bullet Bob · Post by **Bullet Bob** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 2:46 pm

That does it, I'm moving.

Wes · Post by **Wes** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 2:51 pm

I hunt up in that neck of the woods. Good to see a herd of elk without a wolf chasin them! It's also good to see some bare ground. Not much of that around SW Wyoming this winter.

kimwcook · Post by **kimwcook** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 6:29 pm

I lived for a couple of months in Afton. Worked for a heliportable seismic outfit. Worked seven days a week so I didn't get a lot of time to play. But I saw some of the most beautiful country in the world.

Marlin .35 · Post by **Marlin .35** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 10:36 pm

Now ya got to tell me. How is the cost of living!!! That country is beautiful. I could loaf like that for a long while!!!! Art

Post by **Old Savage** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 10:43 pm

That certainly is not a wasted afternoon. Thanks - I really enjoyed those pics.

handirifle · Post by **handirifle** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 11:05 pm

Them's sure some funny lookn horses you guys have up there.

No sir, that day WASN'T wasted. Thanks for sharing those pics.

Post by **Ysabel Kid** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 11:10 pm

Wow - I'd love to see what you call a "good" or "productive" day!

leverhunter · Post by **leverhunter** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 12:24 am

I could use a wasted day like that!
There is a stretch of Highway 40 goin south out of Hinton Alberta that looks just like the highway/mountain pic. Thought for a moment there that was where ya were. Not many elk there but lots of sheep.

dbateman · Post by **dbateman** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 3:24 am

what a way to spend a sunday afternoon cool pics

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 6:46 am

Nice pics dude!

As I was looking at them I started to go in la la land. Then....pop! I realized I was living in Pennsylvania. Thanks for the reminder

---------------Sixgun

gunslinger598 · Post by **gunslinger598** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 9:25 am

I could waste a lot of days that way .......

Thanks for sharing.

Malamute · Post by **Malamute** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 9:37 am

The mountain peaks picture was taken on US Hwy 212 between the junction of Chief Joseph Hwy and Cooke City Mt. The peaks are Pilot and Index Peaks. The road into Cooke is closed for winter about 10 miles east of town. They'll get it plowed open sometime between mid April to mid May depending on the snowpack that particular year.

The other pics were taken along the Chief Joseph Hwy (cant remember the number, 292 or 296?) between Dead Indian Pass and the junction with 212. The Beartooth Pass part of 212 will get plowed open between Chief Joseph Hwy and Red Lodge Mt in mid to late May, and get snowed shut a few times until early to mid June. There's usually 20+ foot drifts they cut thru on the north side of the pass. Patches of snow will be around near Beartooth Pass til late August.

KirkD · Post by **KirkD** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 11:20 am

Malamute, if that was a wasted day, then I'd sure like to see photos of a productive day!

gamekeeper · Post by **gamekeeper** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 5:16 pm

gunslinger598 wrote:I could waste a lot of days that way .......

Thanks for sharing.

+1

JerryB · Post by **JerryB** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 7:57 pm

Thanks for the beautiful pictures. We were up there the first part of August and talked about what it would look like in the winter.We spent three days in Cody, great country. Forgot that you were close by.

oldgerboy · Post by **oldgerboy** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 8:49 pm

Like Sixgun, I live in PA ... but, a couple years ago we traveled through that part of the world during August. I thought it was beautiful then but your pics ... WOW!

MikeS. · Post by **MikeS.** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 9:33 pm

Very nice, reminds me of trips to Jellystone

PaulB · Post by **PaulB** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 9:49 pm

What, no bighorns?

I've driven by the start of 212 quite a few times in the last couple of years. Maybe I ought to try driving it once.

Malamute · Post by **Malamute** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 10:37 pm

I've seen Bighorns in several places but not up where I was that day. The Northfork Hwy and Southfork Rd both out of Cody usually have Bighorns around in winter.

On productive days, I build stuff like this.

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This was the last one I sold. I'm doing another similar one now. Hope to be done in a month or so. Maybe I can take a couple weeks off then!!

KirkD · Post by **KirkD** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 10:05 am

By gum, that is productive! I really like your style. For retirement, I'm planning to purchase 100 acres of semi-wilderness. For the house I'd like to have built on that, I may have to bring you up to 'be productive'!

rjohns94 · Post by **rjohns94** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 11:26 am

I am looking to building a cabin on some land for retirement too. need to downsize from the colonial. maybe in a few years. all this work and no time to play is rediculous. Nice cabin and wonderful pics of your day trip thanks .

GANJIRO · Post by **GANJIRO** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 11:47 am

WHAT ALL THAT WHITE STUFF ON THE GROUND? TOO WHITE TO BE VOLCANIC ASH.

getitdone1 · Post by **getitdone1** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 1:29 pm

Malamute,

Very nice pictures.

I think your cabin is as impressive as the scenery.

One of the best things about that cabin is the surrounding small rock on the ground. No grass mowing !!

Do you enjoy cabin building? I would think so. Mighty nice to enjoy what you do and in country you love to be in.

Don