Once wasn’t enough; we just had to do it again…

We have some friends that we’d met through a RVing forum that are workcamping in Yellowstone National Park again this year. We had visited with them last year when we’d had the good fortune to spend two weeks in our RV in Yellowstone National Park and were really hoping to visit with them again this year. Yellowstone was just a bit too far for us for a quick visit but Bob and Mary were kind enough to agree to meet us in Cooke City at the west end of the Beartooth Pass Highway so we jumped at the chance to ride over and meet them for lunch.

We stopped in Red Lodge, Montana to top off our gas tank and to get a couple of pictures of some interesting sculptures we’d seen on our last trip through here. These sculptures were created from twisted Juniper branches and really caught our eye!

Juniper Elk in Red Lodge, Montana

Juniper Moose in Red Lodge, Montana

It’s really difficult to capture the scenic beauty of Beartooth Pass with the camera we had along and the short time we had available to us but Jax did a pretty nice job taking pictures along the way. The high mountain meadows were still in bloom, which surprised and pleased us very much. It was very cool on top of the pass and we were glad we’d worn sweatshirts when we started out this morning.

Beartooth Pass lakes and meadows

Beartooth Pass vista

We were held up at a construction area on the pass and had to wait for a pilot car. Jackie caught a picture of this handsome young fellow on a beautiful blue bike…

Zippo and the Zipsicle on the Beartooth Pass

Of course, we had to stop at the “Top Of The World Store” (which really wasn’t at the top of the world) to buy t-shirts, patches and pins. This ongoing purchase of memorabilia surely helped the local economy wherever we visited not to mention the fiscal boost given to UPS by our continual shipping of our excess baggage home!

Top of the World Store on the Beartooth Pass

Eventually we arrived safely in Cooke City and had a nice lunch and visit with our friends, Bob and Mary, and then it was time to once more subject ourselves to the beauty and grandeur of the Beartooth Pass. If you get a chance to travel this road you really should take it.

Ride safe,
Zippo and Jax