My Lovely Bride and I hooked on the tin teepee and took off last Monday for the northern part of Wyoming. Leaving Cody headed north, we climbed over the mountain and down into the Sunlight Basin along the Nez Perce Trail Scenic Byway and camped in a USFS campground in the Basin. From there we toured over to Cooke City and over Beartooth Pass down into Red Lodge, Montana. Spent 4 days just looking around and doing a little fishing. Fellers, if you ever get to that part of the state, do NOT pass up a chance to take this tour, it beats Yellowstone all hollow in terms of beautiful, breathtaking scenery, IMHO you will not find a more outstanding way to spend a couple of days sightseeing. Here's a few photos, which do not do justice in any way to the real thing.
A view of Sunlight Basin from the top of Dead Indian Pass.
The canyon of Clarks Fork of the Yellowstone River, very very steep , rocky and deep, Chief Joseph and his tribe temporarily escaped the US Army by using this canyon which the Army had deemed impassable.
Pilot Peak and Index peak, both nearly 11,000 feet, near Cooke City, Montana
Little alpine lake on the way up Beartooth Pass, Absaroka Range in the background.
Another lake and some mountains on the Beartooth, elevation almost 11,000 feet.
Another scene on the Beartooth Pass.
