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We (COSFJR and I) heard about a little FJR gathering happening in Castlegar, BC this year, and thought it might be a good excuse to make a trip out of it 
Here's our SpotWalla page showing everywhere we went: https://spotwalla.com/tripViewer.php?id=4cd34fe4f8aa2e40e
And the full set of pictures here
The plan was to go up and ride the Beartooth highway into Yellowstone, and see some of the Yellowstone sights. Before getting to Beartooth, we saw a squiggly line on the map going through the Big Horn mountains…that looks better than I-90. And indeed it was:
In Red Lodge, we're cruising along looking for a place to park and have lunch, and this crazy guy on a blue FJR sees us going the opposite direction. He waves, quickly turns around and follows us to some parking. It was MegaWatts (Andy), on his way to Alaska…with a pit stop at that Castlegar thingie too. Here's the last known photo of his bike before, he, um replaced it with a new one
Next up was Beartooth, which was pretty amazing:
We also ran into the owner of this beautiful specimen (the one on the far right). He just bought it less than a month ago from a dealer in Spokane. It had 11k miles on it, and it was absolutely immaculate! He lives in Billings and rides down occasionally. I asked if he was on the forum, and he barely knew what the Internet was…so, no.
Next up was Yellowstone, which aside from the eastern bits of Wyoming, was the lowlight of the trip…not too shabby.
And Old Faithful was gracious enough to be mindful of our schedule, as we still had a full day of riding in front of us. She erupted as soon as we walked up and were ready to take pictures.
The next day was Lolo Pass. Why it goes from a 70mph speed limit on the Montana side to a 55mph limit on the Idaho side, nobody will ever know (aside from Idaho state revenue generation theories)
Finally up to Castlegar for NAFO
...more in the next post
We had "Plan A" and "Plan B" routes for after NAFO, and Mohawk (Chris) was gonna ride along with us back to Colorado. Plan A was to do the Going to the Sun road through Glacier National Park. Plan B (in case the road was still closed) would be to head south and ride home through the Tetons. Fortunately for us, the road opened the week before our arrival. And IT.WAS.PHENOMENAL!
We were doing this a lot (taking pictures)
On the east side of the park we found a little cafe for lunch
The pie was tasty…alas, all three of us forgot to take any requisite food **** pictures
Mohawk parted ways at this point…our Candy Butt sensibilities were just too slow for him…and he wanted to get home sooner than us
Shaun and I continued on to Many Glacier, which did not disappoint
Shaun then had the grand idea of combining both Plan A and Plan B and extend our trip by an extra day. APPROVED!
Unfortunately, at about this time, the Waldo Canyon fire was getting much worse back home which was a bit of a downer. Fortunately for us, we live on the far east side of town, the exact opposite side of town as the fires were happening.
But to console us, we were presented with this:
And finally, in some awful corner of Wyoming, outside of Rawlins, I turned 40,000 miles on my bike
All in all, we did nearly 3600 miles, but averaging only 298 miles per day. Our longest day was 491 miles (our first day…kicking us off to a good start), and the shortest day a paltry 145.8 miles. With this, we have submitted for our Candy Butt Association membership
Here's our SpotWalla page showing everywhere we went: https://spotwalla.com/tripViewer.php?id=4cd34fe4f8aa2e40eAnd the full set of pictures here
The plan was to go up and ride the Beartooth highway into Yellowstone, and see some of the Yellowstone sights. Before getting to Beartooth, we saw a squiggly line on the map going through the Big Horn mountains…that looks better than I-90. And indeed it was:
In Red Lodge, we're cruising along looking for a place to park and have lunch, and this crazy guy on a blue FJR sees us going the opposite direction. He waves, quickly turns around and follows us to some parking. It was MegaWatts (Andy), on his way to Alaska…with a pit stop at that Castlegar thingie too. Here's the last known photo of his bike before, he, um replaced it with a new one
Next up was Beartooth, which was pretty amazing:
We also ran into the owner of this beautiful specimen (the one on the far right). He just bought it less than a month ago from a dealer in Spokane. It had 11k miles on it, and it was absolutely immaculate! He lives in Billings and rides down occasionally. I asked if he was on the forum, and he barely knew what the Internet was…so, no.
Next up was Yellowstone, which aside from the eastern bits of Wyoming, was the lowlight of the trip…not too shabby.
And Old Faithful was gracious enough to be mindful of our schedule, as we still had a full day of riding in front of us. She erupted as soon as we walked up and were ready to take pictures.
The next day was Lolo Pass. Why it goes from a 70mph speed limit on the Montana side to a 55mph limit on the Idaho side, nobody will ever know (aside from Idaho state revenue generation theories)
Finally up to Castlegar for NAFO
...more in the next post
We had "Plan A" and "Plan B" routes for after NAFO, and Mohawk (Chris) was gonna ride along with us back to Colorado. Plan A was to do the Going to the Sun road through Glacier National Park. Plan B (in case the road was still closed) would be to head south and ride home through the Tetons. Fortunately for us, the road opened the week before our arrival. And IT.WAS.PHENOMENAL!
We were doing this a lot (taking pictures)
On the east side of the park we found a little cafe for lunch
The pie was tasty…alas, all three of us forgot to take any requisite food **** pictures
Mohawk parted ways at this point…our Candy Butt sensibilities were just too slow for him…and he wanted to get home sooner than us
Shaun and I continued on to Many Glacier, which did not disappoint
Shaun then had the grand idea of combining both Plan A and Plan B and extend our trip by an extra day. APPROVED!
Unfortunately, at about this time, the Waldo Canyon fire was getting much worse back home which was a bit of a downer. Fortunately for us, we live on the far east side of town, the exact opposite side of town as the fires were happening.
But to console us, we were presented with this:
And finally, in some awful corner of Wyoming, outside of Rawlins, I turned 40,000 miles on my bike
All in all, we did nearly 3600 miles, but averaging only 298 miles per day. Our longest day was 491 miles (our first day…kicking us off to a good start), and the shortest day a paltry 145.8 miles. With this, we have submitted for our Candy Butt Association membership
