Pcarhiway, 993 C2S, Big Horn Mtn WY tour
06-26-2014, 11:07 PM
#17
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Nice pictures .
Funny that I was in Wy also this past week . My drive was somewhere around 3000 miles
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsc...ml#post8134558
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Funny that I was in Wy also this past week . My drive was somewhere around 3000 miles
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsc...ml#post8134558
Cheers Guy
06-27-2014, 11:31 AM
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Beautiful! My three year old son and I drove out to visit a friend in WY. My son said, "There is nothing in Wyoming except us and this road." It's refreshing to be reminded there are places like that.
06-27-2014, 12:07 PM
#21
Burning Brakes
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A few years ago a good friend of mine who had grown up in Wyoming but was currently living in Chicago told me a similar story. They were driving on the deserted road from Casper to Shoshoni, his son said "this is lonely, where would you go if you needed to borrow something like a cup of sugar".
Charles Levendosky formerly of the Casper Star Tribune coined the term "The Big Empty" for Wyoming in contrast to "The Big Easy" for New Orleans.
06-27-2014, 02:26 PM
#23
Burning Brakes
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Red highways
Good observation, in NE Wyoming a lot of the road base has "scoria" mixed in with it, here is a good definition of scoria,
Everyone who has traveled through western North Dakota has noticed the colorful reddish layers and brick-like masses of baked and fused clay, shale, and sandstone that color and shape the landscape.These baked materials, known as clinker (or locally as "scoria"), formed in areas where seams of lignite coal burned, producing heat that baked the nearby sediments to a form of natural brick. Clinker beds typically range from a few feet to 50 feet or so thick in western North Dakota, but much thicker beds are found in Wyoming and Montana.
Also sand and gravel from the Chugwater Formation (Triassic age) has a lot of oxidized iron (Porsche speak - RUST) the red tinted gravel also is used for road base in a lot of areas.
Everyone who has traveled through western North Dakota has noticed the colorful reddish layers and brick-like masses of baked and fused clay, shale, and sandstone that color and shape the landscape.These baked materials, known as clinker (or locally as "scoria"), formed in areas where seams of lignite coal burned, producing heat that baked the nearby sediments to a form of natural brick. Clinker beds typically range from a few feet to 50 feet or so thick in western North Dakota, but much thicker beds are found in Wyoming and Montana.
Also sand and gravel from the Chugwater Formation (Triassic age) has a lot of oxidized iron (Porsche speak - RUST) the red tinted gravel also is used for road base in a lot of areas.
06-28-2014, 01:35 PM
#24
Drifting
Thanks for the trip report, Bruce. 
My wife and I went through the area in my 993, as part of our Beartooth / Bighorn / Black Hills tour, and particularly enjoyed the Shell to Dayton section. We will have to do Ten Sleep next time.
You're lucky to have that area in your back yard, and the quick access to it via I 25.
My wife and I went through the area in my 993, as part of our Beartooth / Bighorn / Black Hills tour, and particularly enjoyed the Shell to Dayton section. We will have to do Ten Sleep next time.
You're lucky to have that area in your back yard, and the quick access to it via I 25.
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06-28-2014, 04:45 PM
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Love this thread. Beautiful 993. Can you post some pictures of the interior? Any theft/vandalism concerns with the Garmin and the gooseneck mount?
06-28-2014, 10:53 PM
#27
Burning Brakes
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Thanks for the trip report, Bruce.
My wife and I went through the area in my 993, as part of our Beartooth / Bighorn / Black Hills tour, and particularly enjoyed the Shell to Dayton section. We will have to do Ten Sleep next time.
You're lucky to have that area in your back yard, and the quick access to it via I 25.
My wife and I went through the area in my 993, as part of our Beartooth / Bighorn / Black Hills tour, and particularly enjoyed the Shell to Dayton section. We will have to do Ten Sleep next time.
You're lucky to have that area in your back yard, and the quick access to it via I 25.
Here's another thread on the car from last summer showing some other photos ...
https://rennlist.com/forums/993-foru...carrera-s.html
06-29-2014, 01:22 PM
#28
Drifting
For anyone who is planning on visiting this area, there is a pretty good place to stay, the Bear Lodge Resort, at Burgess Junction in the Shell to Dayton section:
The place has great character, and there is a good bar right on site.
http://www.bearlodgeresort.com/default.aspx
The place has great character, and there is a good bar right on site.
http://www.bearlodgeresort.com/default.aspx
06-29-2014, 04:44 PM
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Many thanks for the trip report and gorgeous pics!
While I was on my x-country trip last Fall fetching my '10 C4S, I got to spend a bit of time in your neck-of-the-woods. While I live in pretty decent driving country, if I could have my way, I'd be a part of the "big nothing" in a flash!
Very glad that you are properly exercising your beautiful 993; wish that I could have been along for the drive...thanks again for the vicarious pleasure!
While I was on my x-country trip last Fall fetching my '10 C4S, I got to spend a bit of time in your neck-of-the-woods. While I live in pretty decent driving country, if I could have my way, I'd be a part of the "big nothing" in a flash!
Very glad that you are properly exercising your beautiful 993; wish that I could have been along for the drive...thanks again for the vicarious pleasure!
06-29-2014, 05:14 PM
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Great post! Just got back from a 697 mile trip with lots of hard driving in the mountains. The peeps that just polish on their cars and don't drive them are really missing out.