Finally a break !!!

Take the car and drive from South Carolina towards the west for about 3 days...........
Then you will come somwhere much more scenic and inspiring..........

2 weeks fall vacation in the wild west !

Going to the sun road.
Glacier waterton national park, Montana USA / Alberta Canada
Rivals the best mountain roads I have ever seen before !

Hit the gas !!

Fall on the prairie, afternoon Iowa

Typhical Iowa scenery

The middle of nowhere....... Wyoming

Yellowstone National park, Wyoming.
The first nature refuge in the world, and very pretty scenery indeed!

..... Watch out for grizzly bears.....

Finally some UPHILL walking again....
Climbing Mt. Washbourne, 3200 moh.

Yellowstone, east entrance

Let`s go....
5 minutes after this picture, I came across my first Grizzly bear, definitely nothing to mess around with ...
They are HUGE !!
Todays goal .. Mt. Norris, 3050 m.

Indian summer, great weather for hiking.
West Yellowstone.

A little hypoxia ?? 3000 moh and counting.....
Cloudbases around 6000 moh !!, Mt. Washbourne

Scenery from the Bighorn montains, Wyoming.

A place to regain strenght and energy.....

What a great time I had up there.....beautiful! ( - :

Beartooth pass Wyoming......3200 moh here !

Light snow.......

COOOL ! ...........

Glacier National park on the border of west Montana and Canada.

A place to fall in love with...
So big and so many places to see, that you need an awful lot of time to see it all.
Rocky Mountains, North range.

Summit of Stanton mtn. 2960 moh.

Great climb to the top !
Windy and cold... - 15 C and about 20 m/s wind.......

A little break !

West ridge of Stanton mtn.



Night temperatures around - 10 C...

Spectacular........

Cataract peak, 3100 moh.

Big sky country they call it !
Great Falls, Montana

Got to eat sometime !

Northern Rockies !

A day on the bike, west glacier.

Yellowstone

Glacier ...

... Thanks