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Outrail posted:Has anyone here been through the Montana/Idaho/Nevada area? Cool abandoned towns or out of the way hiking trails? Nevada, yes. A lot of ghost towns tho a lot have been reclaimed for mining in recent years or just getting run down even further. Unfortunately I just can't think of them since its probably been 10-15 years since I've been. I'd suggest just googling Nevada ghost towns and stuff.e 1) Get a national park pass, it's like $80 and will be repaid easily. It works on national parks, monuments, etc https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/passes.htm 2) For WA/OR/California, definitely take 1/101 and not I5. I5 is boring as poo poo and the coast is beautiful. Lot of stuff to see that I can't even list, from Point Ryes Nt Seashore to Monterey Aquarium to Hearst Castle to other nice beaches and stuff. It will probably add an extra day or more with increased travel time and stops along the way. Also spend a few days in SF as well, lot of things to do and great fantastic food and plenty of hikes in the area. I can recommend more things for the SF Bay Area since I live here. 3) Once you finish up Vegas, plan on spending at least 3 days in Southern Utah. Zion NP is a must see, Bryce is also close-ish and good. Lot of other ones too but once youve seen cool sandstone youve kind of seen them all but if you want theres others as well. 4) Once you finish up Utah National Parks, you might awnt to consider going up to Yellowstone if you've never been, doing Teton and hikes there and then going over to Glacier afterwards. Idaho has some OK things but nothing amazing and it's mostly a lovely state. Unfortunately outside of like Yellowstone and poo poo, you are not going to see much interesting flora or fauna besides some cactii and sage brush once you get into the interior-west. And food is going to mostly suck outside of major OR/WA/CA cities, tho I've had surprisingly good pizza in middle of no where places. I'll give it some more thought and try to think of more specific things. One thing I actually liked in Utah was Topaz Mountain http://www.utahoutdooractivities.com/topaz.html where you can just find topazs and stuff all over the place (though rockpick is handy) and kind of a weird thing. There's also a Garnet Hill in NV somewhere that has a lot of garnets (or used to) Xaris fucked around with this message at 07:43 on Feb 1, 2017 |
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Outrail posted:National Parks card look sweet. If I hit Yellowstone and camp two nights it pays for itself already. How can anyone not have one of those? Skipping Vegas is probably a good idea if its going to be out of your way, but it is sort of gorgeous and disgusting in a wasteful american excess sort of way with cool flashy lights and extravagant casinos surrounded by garbage track housing and strip malls as far as the eye can see. I don't gamble but I enjoyed spending a day just walking around inside various casinos around the strip and stuff. If its on your way, might not hurt just to drop by and spend 1 night there but not any more than that. What stretch of the woods? Should be fine, but also make sure you have a solid beefy U-Lock that you can lock it up, both to your car rack or just using it. Do not use combo locks or chain + padlocks as your only means of locking, that's asking for trouble. If you do take 1/01 down and hit up SF Bay Area, it's not mountain biking but there are a lot of nice biking trails in Marin and biking through parts of SF like along the embarcadero up around the marina to presidio and down the coast is cool Xaris fucked around with this message at 10:04 on Feb 2, 2017 |
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