We are a group of adventurers,explorers that explore the vast amount of montanas dirt roads and forest service access areas,we use mapping software such as garmin with onx maps and gaia maps for nav.some of us have rtts and more equipment for the longer trips but most generally we keep them 6 hrs or less if possible.
Those locomotives are not retired. Work must be slow on the Railroad again 😢. That's just a big storage area. When it's time to get them started, it's going to be a lot of work. All those dead batteries. Lol
@@MontanaDirtRoads The new tires are great! It's kind of like riding on my 450 now but heavier. Lots of traction, even in the wet stuff. The road we took to camp had just been graded and had no gravel in it. The mud would stick to the tires leaving a dry trail of dirt behind the bike. That low pro front fender ended up getting torn off. We secured the brake lines out of the way and then it was a lot easier to get down the road. I'm looking into a high fender kit now.
@72TIGGER72 ya that's the nice thing about the klr is that high front fender and room for that mud to fall out (mostly) in the rear.ive not had to ride in that bad of mud yet for any length of distance worth mentioning lol, my new tires performed amazing on the dirt/gravel/mud I encountered. 970 miles ridden
I belive that bridge was repurposed from the Milwaukee Railroad. Caught a few goldeyes just upstream ftom that bridge a few years back while working in Miles City
@MontanaDirtRoads I've only been on the one by miles city off valley road. Use to get sent over there from western mt to install TV. Pretty country on those back roads along the yellowstone.
Nope, work slowed down in that area, a lot of those Railroad workers found other jobs, or went to different Railroad yards. That's all BNSF equipment. @MontanaDirtRoads
@lawrencebrennan3122 sucks that happened, would have been awesome if montana dis what idaho did with the Milwaukee line and turn them into county roads
At 15:12 (+/-) the first still-photo of the two units , they are both electric locos; and the following photo ha electrics plus one diesel. The electrification project was never completed between Avery, ID and Othello, WA.
Just went thru 70mph gusts the other day in my awning tent. And I never bother with camp fires unless there's snow on the ground. It's definitely wild in the west.
I have always wanted to move to Montana. I live in Washington, which is beautiful, but not a free state. What is there for work in the state of Montana? What would you advise a young person to do either just starting a career within the state or continuing a career? Loving the videos, keep up the film!! Super fun to watch!
4:31 I used to hunt mountain lions in BC Canada, BC is very much like north west Montana. It is very surprising how much ground they can cover. Seeing them just walking around is pretty rare. Find a deer kill and watch that at dawn and dusk then you might see one. I have only seen 3 of them that were not treed. 11:42 @myroncook can you explain this formation? Was it a pyroclastic flow that hit a glacier, it has layers so some kind of sediment built this wall? 17:27 OMG! I took a "short cut" one time that was full of mud, rocks and stumps in a WJ and I get to a clearing to see some a$$ hole parked right on the trail and there was lots of room in the clearing to park. I was almost tempted to pull him backwards out of the way but then decided to try and go around him, good thing the WJ had limited slip front and rear and I was able to navigate off the trail to continue to my destination. 23:31 "I don't hunt things that try and eat me" You don't even know how right you are. They will take your head off if you give them a chance.
I've caught them crossing roads/trails more then a few times lol, I do alot of gravel in the bfe so I see my fare share of oddities lol, like a breading pair of bobcats!
5:26 I have been 4wheeling since 1982, those shelf roads with the camber to the low side with a little snow and ice on them still freak me out. I hit a patch of ice once and ended up tobogganing backwards down the hill and ended up over the bank. I almost had my front end swung around as I put my rear bumper into the bank but did a 180 and ended up going off the road backwards.
Ya I've had some interesting rides on that shit too, drug a buddy up a frozen hill in a jeep trail in the beartooths, told him we have one shot to make it or it will a mess at the bottom, we hit that hill like a whore on nickel night lol, just barely made the top!. You probably noticed I was riding the ditch on them shelter roads lol.
@@MontanaDirtRoadsYes as would I. Early season offroading can create some pretty scary situations. One min you are in crispy crunchy snow then pure ice on the section of road the sun shines on. Going down no brakes hardly any steering and even being in low range 1st gear for compression braking is sketch. Your brain is screaming brakes, brakes but to maintain control you need to feather the gas when you really don't want to. Meanwhile your passenger is yelling to be let out of the rig. Fun times LOL BTW I subbed 👍
Thanks for subbing guy! I have over inflated my tires a time or 2 so I could cross or traverse icy roads, I went down a mountain switch back that was all iced up and with running water on it .....only ti.e I wished I had chains but the goodyear duratracks got me though it unscathed with some creative driving thrown in ( I used to race auto cross so I have some tricks)
Because alot of areas have been overwhelmed, shut down or vandalized from Irresponsible land users that have found these places by youtube or Facebook groups.i don't want to be the reason a 120 year old miners cabin was burned down cause I revealed its location..it's becoming a problem now due to social media,I know it costs me subscriptions but it's something I won't do. There are exceptions to this and I have given names to a few ghost towns or old railroad grades that one can drive on.
@@MontanaDirtRoadsWe have that same problem in Alberta. The government is shutting down trails as too many people find these places and just trash them. How hard is it to pick up your beer cans and shot gun shells/brass? When I camp I leave the place better than when I found it. I even pack out dirty diapers and my kids are adults. I also bury human turds after someone surface sh!ts. I want to preserve these places. I use GAIA GPS maps to explore places in Alberta, BC and Montana (onX maps are not very good in Canada) but I never post the places I find publicly. If I want a friend to join me I share privately.
My 2x Great Grand father Dan Laguenesse Provided the beef for the men building the railroad . He got the beef up on the Flathead reservation took to Superior to butcher & then to the camp at Taft. Also ran a bar in Saltease.
Ya it was spur of the moment,we are gonna make another one that we're not drunk on and start from a clean start......just need to find the time yo do it.
Nice to see that there is still a lot of wilderness up there. You have guts taking the jeep through some of those trails. Snow was pretty deep. Nice Vid.
Wrong, in this deep of snow you want to float.there is still alot of snow between my tires and the snow in most cases,but a taller ,wider tire at the same or lower pressure has more floatation so it stays up top better..it's like a snow shoe effect or the track on a snow mobile,dispersed weight.
The snow had gotten pretty warm and wet but only the few top inches, we buried bad at first,got it put and just tapped my way through. I was looking out the side window and drove right into it and didn't have a chance lol
I'll say it's close to big timber..I don't give out locations to places anymore due to places getting over run and destroyed by people that don't have the proper ethics or that care about the proper stewardship of our lands.im sorry but this is a policy I adopted from learning this the hard way,I hope you understand. Thanks for watching.
It's used for our food,this is mostly private mainly due to how the railroad procured the land initially.when the np and other railroads that had land granted to them by the government in the 1800s.the milwaukee had to buy every foot and then was sold when they went bankrupt. I have another video further up my Playlist from me driving a section in idaho,this involved tunnels and some bridges which was awesome! I have to finish part two ....just need the time to do it on the pc.
I live half way between Minneapolis & Rochester. Thank you for your travels and the scenery. We live more so in a flat rolling area so its great to see the mountanous scenery and your challenges in the terrai + you have snow which we literally do not have. Keep up the good work.
