YCGL - Lander to Cody - Saturday, Sept 10

Today was a quiet, straightforward day.  I hitched up about 10:30 and drove north through Riverton, across the southern end of Boysen reservoir, through Shoshoni, north past Boysen dam and into the Wind River Canyon.  

Wind River Canyon is neat because the river cuts through dipping geologic formations from Pre Cambrian to the same formations we have in Laramie.  The Highway Department has signs where the layers change.  

It’s also a pretty canyon.  I stopped there and had lunch and walked around on the high bank, being about a fifty foot drop down to the river

The Highway on the left bank and the railroad on the right. 

You can see one of the formation breaks in the upper right hand corner of the photo. 

The canyon then opens up to the town of Thermopolis. As the name implies, there is geothermal activity here. There are three spas here, two commercial and one free state run pool that is really nice and has some variety of temperatures for wimps like me.  

Continued on to Cody.  Got to the KOA (not my favorite campgrounds, but one of the more open ones in Cody.).  Unhitched, met one of my neighbors and her dog Foxy.  Finally fixed camping food for dinner (hamburger stroganoff) and took a nap. Drove the main drag through Cody and called it good.  

As I will now!