Day siXty two, Rock Springs to Jackson Hole.

It’s 300 kms up the 191 from Rock Springs to Jackson Hole. Fortunately the scenery changes. The first 100 kilometers is desolate personified. there is just nothing there, this is ranch country, you can see a road boundary fence for miles and miles, but no cattle. To be fair, this part of Wyoming would be more desolate than the Nullabor, but hey, I enjoy riding in expanses of nothing, pretty peaceful.

By and By we approached a wee town called Boulder, south of Boulder the desolation changed to irrigated ranches growing lucerne under center pivots and they were baling as we rode past, outstanding, something to look at.

Obviously the further North we rode the larger on the horizon the Teton Mountain range was so we started to have glimpses of actual scenery!!

Once we hit Pinedale, the scenery changed from miles and miles of nothing to almost National Park quality as we followed first a river valley, then got into some mountain country as we approached Bondurant, Hoback etc and on up to Jackson.

The last 55 kms into Jackson was gorgeous, made up for the first 100 kms of nothing.

All in all a pretty relaxing days ride, had to be done, one of those a to b rides to get us from the nice rides of Colorado up to the nice rides of Wyoming.

We unpacked at the Motel in Jackson, got changed and decided to walk the two kms into town. Lucky we decided to walk as a scrub fire had started just up the road and there was mayhem, Police and fire everywhere, roads blocked, planes and helicopters called in to dump on it as it quickly spread over about 100 acres. Fire service did well to keep it off three commercial buildings that came close, we are talking 2-3 meters away close, the helicopters even dumped water from the monsoon buckets straight onto the buildings at one stage. Posted a wee video of the fire on my Facebook page.

One night in Jackson Hole then through Teton and Yellowstone National Parks tommorrow to one of my favourite Wyoming towns, Cody.