Post Pics Of Your Tacoma In The Mountains

Fender Strat?

Beautiful view!

 

Finally finished writing up the story of the De-Tour - an adventure that @Blackdawg, @m3bassman, @Digiratus, @Speedytech7, @drr, @IDtrucks, and @Glenn_R took some 14 months ago. Was quite the trip - so much so that we had to bail on the original plan after breaking Frankenstein for the last time (well, to date anyway).

Monte and I both wrote up versions of the adventure - it's a long one, but check it out. Good post-turkey reading.

The De-Tour (of Montana, Wyoming...and Utah)
As told by turbodb: [Chapter 1] [Chapter 2] [Chapter 3] [Chapter 4] [Chapter 5] [Chapter 6] [Chapter 7]
[Chapter 8] [Chapter 9] [Chapter 10] [Chapter 11] [Chapter 12] [Chapter 13a] [Chapter 13b]

As told by Blackdawg: [Chapter 1] [Chapter 2] [Chapter 3] [Chapter 4] [Chapter 5] [Chapter 6] [Chapter 7]
[Chapter 8] [Chapter 9] [Chapter 10] [Chapter 11] [Chapter 12] [Chapter 13]​

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Fucking amazing. This should be a damn book!

 

Dang, this is such a nice shot. Makes me want to move up north!

 

How does that saying go? "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, ..."

If you've been a reader of previous trip reports, you may recall one of the craziest trips to date - The De-Tour - which occurred almost exactly one year ago (but that just finished writing up and posting). That trip was a great one for many reasons, but it had gone nothing like we'd expected - snowing or raining every day - eventually forcing us to abandon our Tour of Montana and Wyoming for what we hoped were clearer skies, in Utah.

...where it also rained on us.

Even so, it wasn't long before we started talking about "next year." And before long, "next year" was now...

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Read all of chapter 1, and get ready for a trip even more awesome than the last!
The Re-Tour (Aug 2018) - Day 1, We Head East​

read it now: The Re-Tour (Aug 2018) - Day 1, We Head East


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Our journey through Idaho towards Montana and Wyoming continued through Old Elk City and then through the Macgruder Corridor - the smoke getting thinner and the skies bluer. Amazingly beautiful country!

Well, for a while anyway - until the "r"ain word was mentioned...

Read the story and see the pics: The Re-Tour Day 2: Macgruder, Paradise, and ...Seriously, Mike?​

The Re-Tour Day 2: Macgruder, Paradise, and ...Seriously, Mike?


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[day 1] [day 2]​

 

What was the third day for Dan, Mike and I was actually the day we'd meet Zane and Monte for the official start of the trip. We were up early with a lot of miles to cover - and some great stops along the way - before we'd arrive in Cooke City at our designated meeting time of 5pm.

The question on all of our minds - when would Monte show up?

Read all of day 3 and check out the photos:
The Re-Tour Day 3: Monte's "Right On Time"​

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The Re-Tour Day 3: Monte's "Right On Time"​

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[day 1] [day 2] [day 3]
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Blue mountains, WA

 

...The wet and cold continued all night - or rather, the wet continued and the cold got colder! We awoke, just after 8:00am to a dusting of snow spread across camp and our trucks, and several inches on the surrounding mountains.

"Welcome to Montana guys!" Monte said as he climbed out of his tent...

Read the story and lots of pics: The Re-Tour Day 4: It Always Snows at Goose Lake

The Re-Tour Day 4: It Always Snows at Goose Lake


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[day 1] [day 2] [day 3] [day 4]​

 

...Now mid-afternoon, we continued up Big Pryor mountain, through gates and across grassy hillsides. We reveled in the beauty and the took in the views as we climbed, the white clouds and blue skies contrasting so nicely with the golden-green of the landscape. This truly was what we were hoping for on the Re-Tour.

Read the story and lots of pics: The Re-Tour Day 5: We Follow the Sun into the Pryors

The Re-Tour Day 5: We Follow the Sun into the Pryors


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[day 1] [day 2] [day 3] [day 4] [day 5]


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Greyback Road - on the Oregon/California border

When it’s 60° and sunny in Happy Camp you don’t really pay heed to that no winter maintenance sign. It was an icy mess near the summit. Thankful to make it out in one piece.

 

I’ll play

 

...Our stomachs satisfied for the moment, we continued down the mountain - only a single planned overlook between us and the bottom, our road spitting us out near the confluence of the Bighorn and Devil's Canyons which we could already see in the distance... it was at this overlook that tragedy struck. (Tragedy is perhaps a bit strong a word to use in this case, but what unfolded was definitely a bummer...)

Fnd out what happened, and photos from this amazing day: The Re-Tour Day 6: Into the Abyss

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The Re-Tour Day 6: Into the Abyss​

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[day 1] [day 2] [day 3] [day 4] [day 5] [day 6] ​

 

Sometimes we just get lucky - and this morning was apparently one of those times for me. I mean sure, I situated my truck for success the night before, and I'd brought the camera into the tent thinking there might be an opportunity to capture a bit of early orange hue, but I never thought I'd get the display that I did, while still warm under my comforter.

It started as it so often does - just a hint of brightness along the horizon and deep purple highlights on the clouds in the sky. This is the moment, I thought to myself...

It really was the start of an amazing day.

Read the whole story: The Re-Tour Day 7: Uphill Both Ways to Copman's Tomb​

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The Re-Tour Day 7: Uphill Both Ways to Copman's Tomb​

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[day 1] [day 2] [day 3] [day 4] [day 5] [day 6] [day 7]


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...The truth was, this was a day we'd all been looking forward to - but perhaps no one more than me. This was the day that we'd return to what was <em>the trail</em> that pushed me the hardest the year before; the trail on which, I confided to Mike - "This is right on the edge for me." It was also the trail where Frank had called it quits - nearly twice - and where we'd banded together to get out in one piece. It was Boulder Basin.

Read and see what happened this year: The Re-Tour Day 8: Boulder Basin, My Favorite Trail

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The Re-Tour Day 8: Boulder Basin, My Favorite Trail​

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[day 1] [day 2] [day 3] [day 4] [day 5] [day 6] [day 7] [day 8]​

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