TheSamba.com :: View topic - 7-8 week camping trip WY, MT, ID, UT, AZ, CO

Sun Jul 17, 2011 3:43 pm

I've got a good one planned.
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF&msa=0&msid=211826788042983660029.0004a7c9f4bbc8916e4c2

Looking to leave Tracy, MN about Aug 8, lotsa time in WY and MT before putting a friend on a plane in Spokane on the 28th.
A week w friends near White Salmon, WA before joining other friends for weeks in the Sawtooths and the Canyonlands.
Great dayhiking and at least 8 hot springs enroute.

Wanderglobe - looks like our paths cross a lot, hope they cross at the same time, I see your pic in the gallery.

I'm in a '71, looks like Chabanais' below, but w the spare on the front.

Sun Jul 17, 2011 4:08 pm

Looks like a helluva trip. Enjoy!

I was just through your neck of the woods a couple of weeks ago, and it looks like you'll be passing through mine soon. If you need a hand, or just a safe place to crash for a night, fell free to contact me.

Sun Jul 17, 2011 7:01 pm

if you are camping at the Grand Canyon, check out Tuweep. its amazing. i think a bus could make it, maybe.
http://www.nps.gov/grca/planyourvisit/tuweep.htm

Sun Jul 17, 2011 7:55 pm

cdennisg - thanks for the offer, hope I don't need a hand, and am good for places to spend the night. Meeting a friend at his cabin in Noxon, MT for a couple days then straight to his place in Spokane for the flight the following day.

rovnrev - great suggestion, that's where the lower left leg on the google map goes. I was there in the bus 3 or 4 years ago, no problems, but reckon road conditions can quickly change.
Had it all to myself midweek, but it filled up [10-15 sites] on the weekend.

Wed Jul 20, 2011 4:54 pm

Do yourself a favor and skip Sun Valley/Ketchem and drive from Stanley to Challis through the Yankee Fork Road. Even if you do have to see Sun Valley spend a couple days on the Yankee Fork. It's absolutely beautiful. I just drove my bus up there for 6 days list last week.

Wed Jul 20, 2011 9:39 pm

Thanks.....I'll make a note of Yankee Fork for the next trip.
That week is full, following the lead of an Idaho friend w whom I've shared many adventures.
Just passing thru Sun Valley to see a friend in Hailey.

Wed Jul 20, 2011 9:54 pm

Please tell me you and your friends in White Salmon are going to take a trip to the Oregon coast. Its a must. :wink:

Wed Jul 20, 2011 11:11 pm

Nice Bus!

Your route looks good. Buffalo was cool, so was Thermopolis. I'd swing by Jackson and go White Water Rafting on the Snake River. Mad River is a great company and it's a lot of fun:

Also the Wyoming Dinosaur Center is worth visiting (in Thermopolis). Touring the old Wyoming State Prison was cool, too.

I would swing by Antelope Island in Utahby going down 84.

Here's where I went:

Flying J in Winnemucca, NV :-)
Antelope Island, UT
Rawlings, WY
Casper, WY
Devil's Tower, WY
Buffalo, WY
Fort Kearny, WY
Billings, MT
Cody, WY
Thermopolis, WY
Jackson, WY
Tetons/Yellowstone National Park, WY
Craters of the Moon, NV
Idaho Falls, ID
Twin Falls, ID
Lovelock, NV
Back home!

Wed Jul 20, 2011 11:20 pm

chabanais wrote: Craters of the Moon, NV

Isn't that Idaho? :P

Wed Jul 20, 2011 11:21 pm

Yeah... typo sorry.

Trailjunky wrote: chabanais wrote: Craters of the Moon, NV

Isn't that Idaho? :P