We had 5 sightings of Moose today, several deer and antelope but no other wildlife, as we didn't get an early enough start.
The Crazy Woman Canyon is about 10 miles south of Buffalo and back west into the hills. It starts as a two lane gravel road and winds up as a very narrow, steep rock covered one lane road, a little tricky to manuveur a big vehicle in and around the big rocks of the canyon walls.
A few times it was white knuckle driving for me!The beauty of that peaceful setting was well worth the time.
A stream follows it and there were lots of flowers in bloom.
Quite a few people camping up towards the top, roughing it with tents and fires going. Braver than I am, as the hills and forest are filled with critters that will eat ya and they don't care if you're wrapped in a nylon tent!
At the top, you travel deep into the Big Horn National Forest and highway 14 continues on West to Ten Sleep, and West again to Worland. We then turned north and went on into Grey Bull, and stopped for lunch at the A&W. We stopped in there a couple of years ago when we were staying at Yellowstone Valley, so we knew it was good.
After a nice lunch and quite a wait for some road construction on the bridge, we picked up Highway 14A and continued up and over the Big Horns again.
Stopped several times to photograph animals and look for some Big Horn Sheep. We stopped at the Native American Medicine Wheel site and up at the top of the very steep road in the forest.
The views of Cloud Peak,Bomber and Bald Mountains were fantastic, and with the elevations above 10,000 ft. there's still quite a bit of unmelted snow at the top! We wound around and down, making a great big loop ending up back on I 90 north of Sheridan. We headed south and after a quick Wally World stop in Sheridan came the rest of the 33 miles home, having put in over 300 miles!
Just as we pulled into town off the Interstate Ramp, I noticed my brakes making a scraping noise! At least they held up in all the downhill mountain driving today. I did use my lower gears and tried to stay off of them, I guess it's just time. I was wondering what to do for the rest of this week leading up to the 4th of July and now I know! Spend more money on the Suburban's brakes! Yee Haw...it never ends!
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