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Re: Plan SB's Elite Vision Quest Through Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho
« Reply #475 on: June 29, 2016, 09:17:56 PM »
Schreds let the haters hate and just sit there drinking their haterade. I love that you went there in weird months and I would totally go there in weird cold dead months too because even though a lot of it looks dreary it still looks beautiful to this VQ'r.
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Re: Plan SB's Elite Vision Quest Through Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho
« Reply #476 on: June 29, 2016, 09:56:17 PM »
Schreds let the haters hate and just sit there drinking their haterade. I love that you went there in weird months and I would totally go there in weird cold dead months too because even though a lot of it looks dreary it still looks beautiful to this VQ'r.
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I'm just gonna keep posting a few pics every day until I go Questing again in a few weeks.  Still waiting on that Pakhead so I can post fish pics.

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Re: Plan SB's Elite Vision Quest Through Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho
« Reply #477 on: June 29, 2016, 10:09:38 PM »
Here's some blue sky AND green trees for you assholes.  Those mountains are the Tetons, for you losers who never leave your concrete jungle.




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Re: Plan SB's Elite Vision Quest Through Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho
« Reply #478 on: June 29, 2016, 10:19:51 PM »
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Re: Plan SB's Elite Vision Quest Through Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho
« Reply #480 on: June 30, 2016, 12:46:25 PM »
Pro-tip:  trails often follow drainages and bears like creek bottoms so there ya go.

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Re: Plan SB's Elite Vision Quest Through Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho
« Reply #481 on: July 01, 2016, 12:42:57 PM »
I looked up permits for the John Muir Trail and there's a freaking lottery. Jeez, man.


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Re: Plan SB's Elite Vision Quest Through Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho
« Reply #482 on: July 08, 2016, 12:41:17 PM »
I've been applying to a permit lottery for a particular hike almost every month for a couple years now.  Kinda sucks, but someday if I actually get one I will enjoy not being mobbed by other hikers.

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Re: Plan SB's Elite Vision Quest Through Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho
« Reply #483 on: July 08, 2016, 01:00:57 PM »
Sign of the times, it's only going to get worse.

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Re: Plan SB's Elite Vision Quest Through Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho
« Reply #484 on: July 08, 2016, 01:59:52 PM »
FreundinSonntag and i are driving out to LA for a wedding the last week of September and i've got some time to spend on a VQ aloted.

Right now, the proposed timeframe is between leaving Denver early Saturday morning and arriving in Vegas mid afternoon Tuesday.

Here's the route:
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Denver,+CO/Las+Vegas,+NV/@37.9507058,-112.3163565,7z/am=t/data=!3m1!4b1!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x876b80aa231f17cf:0x118ef4f8278a36d6!2m2!1d-104.990251!2d39.7392358!1m5!1m1!1s0x80beb782a4f57dd1:0x3accd5e6d5b379a3!2m2!1d-115.1398296!2d36.1699412

What route should i take, places should i overnight Sunday/Monday, to maximize our VQ?

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Re: Plan SB's Elite Vision Quest Through Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho
« Reply #485 on: July 08, 2016, 02:05:02 PM »
Any interest in hearing some rutting bull elk scream their heads off?  Good time of year to hear it and you could do it on almost the entire route.

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Re: Plan SB's Elite Vision Quest Through Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho
« Reply #486 on: July 08, 2016, 02:49:33 PM »
Yes, i'd say that'd be something i'd be interested in.

On that route we go by: Zion, Bryce Canyon and near Canyonlands... if i take the road less traveled (an extra 3 hours on the trip) we could also go by Antelope Canyon/Lake Powell area.

With only 2 nights to spend for all that, and not wanting to spend the whole time driving, i was hoping for some recommendations on how to whittle down that trip into 60 hours well spent.

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Re: Plan SB's Elite Vision Quest Through Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho
« Reply #487 on: July 08, 2016, 02:58:05 PM »
Colorado GMU 40, 61, and 76 would be good bets halfway close to your route.  I'm not familiar with Utah so can't help you there, maybe tdaver can.

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Re: Plan SB's Elite Vision Quest Through Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho
« Reply #488 on: July 08, 2016, 03:03:20 PM »
Antelope Canyon would be a great stop but really puts you out of the way.  I would drop off I70 at hwy24 and then take hwy12 through Escalante and then down hwy89 and through Zion back to I15.  And even before that you could drop down to Moab and check out that area.  There is an endless amount of stuff to see along that route. 

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Re: Plan SB's Elite Vision Quest Through Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho
« Reply #489 on: July 08, 2016, 03:15:53 PM »
National Parks - Arches, Canyonlands, CapReef, Bryce, Zion
State Parks - Dead Horse, Goblin Valley, Kodachrome Basin, Snow Canyon
Slot canyons - Little Wild Horse, Peekaboo/spooky, Zebra and several others near Escalante
Scenic drives - all of Hwy 12 is redic (esp between Boulder and Escalante) but also Burr Trail, Hells Backbone, cottonwood canyon as side trips
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Re: Plan SB's Elite Vision Quest Through Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho
« Reply #490 on: July 09, 2016, 09:06:20 AM »
I'd swing through North Carolina.


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Re: Plan SB's Elite Vision Quest Through Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho
« Reply #491 on: July 10, 2016, 09:12:50 AM »
Ran up to the Uintas after work on Friday.  Hiked in a few miles and found a nice place to setup camp.




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Re: Plan SB's Elite Vision Quest Through Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho
« Reply #492 on: July 10, 2016, 08:04:26 PM »
Dunno. He hasn't posted about it if indeed he did VQ.
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Re: Plan SB's Elite Vision Quest Through Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho
« Reply #493 on: July 10, 2016, 09:20:57 PM »
rumblings he VQ'd so hard he thought the snowy peaks were a gravy volcano

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Re: Plan SB's Elite Vision Quest Through Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho
« Reply #494 on: July 10, 2016, 10:55:23 PM »
Just booked a bonus VisionQuest. Baby Emo doesn't start school for a few years so we are talking him into the Holy Cross Wilderness to scout for a mule deer tag I will draw in a few years.

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Re: Plan SB's Elite Vision Quest Through Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho
« Reply #495 on: July 11, 2016, 06:21:07 AM »
Ran up to the Uintas after work on Friday.  Hiked in a few miles and found a nice place to setup camp.




That's beautiful tdaver!

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Re: Plan SB's Elite Vision Quest Through Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho
« Reply #496 on: July 11, 2016, 01:16:50 PM »
Less than a week until my VQ guys!!  I've got the fever so bad I can't stand it.  Can't wait to get up there and get into a few of these guys.  This is Schreds Dad with a 24" rainbow he caught a few years ago at Brooks Lake.


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Re: Plan SB's Elite Vision Quest Through Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho
« Reply #497 on: July 12, 2016, 09:31:49 AM »
Here is a useful tool for planning your respective vision quests:

https://databasin.org/maps/new#datasets=b59447a277a249de8aedb915ea8907e6

It's a dataset that plots the distance to the nearest road of a given location in map form.  So, essentially it's a map of remoteness.  It's not a perfect dataset, fairly outdated, but it is useful no doubt.

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Re: Plan SB's Elite Vision Quest Through Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho
« Reply #498 on: July 16, 2016, 07:47:45 AM »
VQ has begun!  Currently stopped at Loves in Ellis for the first of what will be many bathroom stops for Mrs. Schreds    :angry:

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Re: Plan SB's Elite Vision Quest Through Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho
« Reply #499 on: July 16, 2016, 11:14:39 AM »
VQ has begun!  Currently stopped at Loves in Ellis for the first of what will be many bathroom stops for Mrs. Schreds    :angry:
Well you cant drink roadies and not stop at alot of gas stations
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