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US Highway 191 passes directly by the Morenci Mine and the town of Morenci. The Morenci Mine is one largest open-pit mines on Earth. Like Butte, Montana's Berkeley Pit, the Morenci pit(s) are formed from the consolidation of a number of underground mines. At present, the 3 pits cover an area...

Nothing less than amazing to me. The truck looks like an early 1940s Bedford, maybe a Bedford QL. It was a 3-ton 4 X 4 with a 215 cubic inch straight 6 cylinder producing a whopping 72 (Seventy two) horsepower. Looks like they made the entire trip with a bald left front tire. And they pulled...

All true. And hopefully no flame war will erupt from my decades old humorous nickname for large vehicles. My 63 year-old wife just advised me to look out for the PC Police due to my something or another --ist term for large vehicles. She's worked for the last 25 years with members of a certain...

Yeah Man, those big Burbans and F250s/350s are the Fat Girls. Love me some Fat Girls, but they're tough to move.

Like Jeep or Tacoma, above, I spent 4 years as an undergraduate geology student (Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains) followed by 6 years as a field geologist employed by a mineral exploration consulting firm. Looked for everything from lignite in...

Been to the Cascades many times Mike. Great area. Our Ashe County friends are near Fleetwood. Enjoy! Foy

A belated "Welcome to Blowing Rock". We'll be there Friday to Sunday fetching up Christmas trees and taking the grandkids on the Tweetsie Christmas train, tubing at Hawksnest, visiting my ASU roommate and his family, and visiting a longtime former Raleigh friend who's recently moved to Ashe...

Incredible! Great work and congratulations. Is my recollection that Kennedy-Shaw included a couple of pages (or more?) about the Lost Patrol in his LRDG book? But the passage doesn't include specific mention of PPA due to wartime censorship? I also don't recall reading of Popski's "ride...

You'd probably much enjoy reading up on the English Special Operations groups known as the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) and Popski's Private Army (PPA). Unfortunately (or fortunately) for we Americans, the real-world history of LRDG and PPA operations shines a bright light on how badly "The...

What a fine report and a totally cool format! Thanks for sharing and hoping to see more sometime soon!

The Benchmark series of state-by-state Road and Recreation Atlases do a good job of showing NF, NP, NM,Reservation, Wildlife Refuge, and BLM lands. Also, State Parks, State Forests, etc are generally shown. At a scale of (generally) 1" = 4 miles, and with Federal lands generally being whole 1...

The DC-3/C-47 you saw may be "Miss Montana", recently restored and flown to Normandy for the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion. I think Miss Montana flew a load of relief supplies to the Bahamas in the past couple of weeks, too. Those DC-3s are amazing airplanes, aren't they?

Are you free to reveal the location of the hot spring-heated cabin? I've got a couple of ideas as to where it may be but will not butt in in case it's better left unmentioned in this public forum. Foy

What a fine, fine trip report! You were fortunate to have opportunity to get around as you did given the early dates and high 2019 snowpack. I'd be interested to know more specifically your last campsite was, the one north of Philipsburg. My guess is off to the west of MT-1 in the John Long...

No offense, my friend, but the gate you encountered is one of the more common styles found anywhere in the country. Ranchers and farmers put them up not because they're trying to disguise the gate or discourage its use, but because they can be built on-site for practically nothing money-wise...

Looks like a late 1950s NAPCO conversion Chevy or GMC. NAPCO did the 4WD conversion and they were sold through the regular dealer network. Whatever the provenance, it's a totally cool truck. My favorite is the IH Scout half-cab. I've got a '65 and a '67, one a Scout 80 and the newer a Scout...

Ohh, ohh, I just realized the last pics are not the Beaverheads/Bitterroots but are instead looking east from MT 278 just coming down the grade from Big Hole Pass into the Grasshopper Creek drainage. Thus they show the Pioneer Mtns Scenic Byway carving along the east side of Grasshopper Creek...

Thanks Jerry! Wisdom and Jackson are terrific little burgs, and it looks like either Hirschy Peak or Homer Young's Peak is pictured shrouded by clouds. We love that area beyond most all others. Various iterations of the Continental Divide Trail for touring cyclists, motorcyclists, and even...

I first visited the Big Hole National Battlefield as a 23-year old college student in 1978. I returned with my bride just 4 years later, with her and our teenaged sons 18 years after that, and the wife and I visited the rider's camp at the beginning of the annual Chief Joseph Ride...

We had the great good fortune to visit Gold Bug in mid-July 2011 and that's where we first met our friends from Challis in person. A different couple owned the house pictured at that time but their frustration with the behavior of visitors was the same--8 or 9 on a scale of 10. The handwritten...