Huntindave McCann report.....

Jeff Jacobs

Jeff Jacobs

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I had a short phone conversation with Dave at 12:00 noon CST today. He was in Montana and was planning on being across the Canada border by tonight. His only regret up to this point was not having six months and $60,000 for this trip since he was having to pass up lots of things he'd like to try.

Continue to enjoy Dave,

Jeff
 
Jeff

Thanks for the report. At work you guys need to start a pool of somesort like how many times Dave will get lost or how many tickets he'll wind up with. Traffic and game:)
 
I missed his call, but I guess he was in Ft Nelson BC around supper time, headed for the hotsprings, and hoping to be here at my place tomorrow. He's covered a lot of ground really fast! Ft Nelson is about 10 hrs from here if you don't have to slow down to avoid hitting German tourists who are standing in the middle of the road photographing every bear they see. Looking forward to meeting him.

Mike
 
That 100-120 will be sure to throw off that MPG calculation.

Safe travels Dave!!

-D
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Nah,the gas pumps are in Liters,so he'll just show it as gallons,and think he's doing Realy great on the mileage,untill hr wonders why his tank holds so much.BWAAaaaaaaa
 
You guys are all such comedians, (don't quit your day jobs)

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At work you guys need to start a pool of some sort like how many times Dave will get lost or how many tickets he'll wind up with.
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No tickets yet Eric but the guy that passed me yesterday was sitting with a cop car behind him when I caught up to him on the highway.

Lost? see below about GPS


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Hey Lee, Whats this "kmh" you speak of? Actually besides my speedometer on the truck I have been having my dash mounted GPS set on metric units and it gives me my ground speed in Kilometers. Which BTW registered 150KPH today when I passed four RVs at once. hehe I covered 800 miles Tuesday and 850 miles yesterday so yes, I've been burning up some blacktop.


As far as the gas prices, I just close my eyes and slide the card thru. I think it cost me $130 to fill the tank one time yesterday. Still worth it to have my truck over my motorcycle. I've encountered too much rain, loose gravel, snow and road construction, to want to be riding a bike.

Speaking of encounters,,,, I had a real close up encounter with some of the wildlife already. Seems that this one doe deer wanted to occupy the same point in space as my truck. The truck came out of it with just a small crease in the hood but the deer wasn't so lucky. So far I've seen (all in the road right of way) deer, bison, elk, bear, sheep, and moose. Fortunatly only the one deer decided to change sides of the road.

The East entrance to Yellowstone Park was closed last Sunday due to a snow storm. Everything above about 5500 foot elevation is still covered with winter snow. Did a little fishing in the Firehole River even though it was running pretty hot and heavy from snow melt. Most all of the rivers I drove past the last day or two have been running fast and turbid from runoff. Heavy snows this winter combined with the rains have made fishing conditions not so good in Wyoming and Montana.

I'm at Yukon Mike's place now and we plan to put the kayaks in someplace tomorrow and try our luck.
 
Huntindave, great story. Keep us posted on your adventures. Drive safe and watch out for the wildlife.
 
Good fishing Dave. I heard from a reliable source that theirs fish under the barge on Lake Lefarge, seems some one put ashes there.
 
Great report Dave. Thank God it wasn't a moose! They tend to total the vehicle. Watch carefully for them when you are in Alaska. I've had a couple of close run in's with them over the last 34 years, but no totals so far...little dings from spin outs trying to avoid them (winter).
Jesse
 
Jesse,

You are right about hitting a moose. I did do a closer inspection and found that besides the crease in the hood , the headlight is busted and the grille is broke loose. Still plenty drivable tho.
 
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