Day 9 Friday August 3rd

302 miles from Gardiner Montana to Sheridan, Wyoming. We entered back into Yellowstone and exited at the East gate. We saw a bear, bison by the dozen and some of the most beautiful country side you could imagine. We then rode to Red Lodge and the Bear Tooth Highway - at 10,500 feet at the peak it is one of the highest highways in the USA and certainly must be the steepest.
Switchbacks all the way up and all the way down. There was a lot of snow drifts still at the top and it was bloody cold. The drop off from the road was amazing. Top speed was 25 miles an hour most of the way. All bikes and all piglets are healthy and happy. The hotel tonight is nice enough but all the hotels for hundreds of miles around Sturgis jack up their prices at this time of the year.

Tomorrow Sturgis and we stay their two nights.

The little cabins in Gariner - straight out of the 60s

A bison in the carpark

Bison by the road

Too cold to take a photo from the lookout. Mountains in the background

Mountains everywhere you look