Western Nebraska/Eastern Wyoming...Winter Time Activities

[WildBoose]

Headed to Eastern Wyoming first part of December to shoot some ducks. Driving from Ky.....Building in an extra travel day, what is there to do? See? Eat?

 

[Shawn Hultquist]

The original cableas in Sydney. Mt Rushmore area. Stay out of the wind. That’s about it


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[jmez]

Scottsbluff area I assume? Really isn't much out there.


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[nodakian]

The fur trade museum in Chadron is seriously worth a couple hours if you're in that area.

 

[Dirtbag]

Lived in Western Nebraska for quite awhile. You are on the right track with ducks. Waterfowl and coyote calling is about it.

 

[wyogoat]

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[Dwnw/theAltitudesickness]

Chimney rock? Just to say you went.

 

[William Sublette]

Ft. Laramie.




Every famous mtn man you've ever heard of has been up the Platte River, and through that valley.

 

[William Sublette]

The Oregon Trail by Fancis Parkman ....(I think) is great reading if you want to get a good feel for the area before it was settled.

 

[Laramie]

Prairie Rose in Laramie serves a great breakfast. They were on Diners, Dives, and Drive-ins recently. Green Chili smothered breakfast burrito is my recommendation. Pheasant hunting is decent in some of that area. Plenty of Bars to visit. If you are a single guy, your best pickup line is "I drive a U-Haul". Most women are dying to get out of those small towns lol.

 

[DenimChicken]

Shoot some geese when you get bored shooting ducks.

 

[jayhawk]

You’re brave to make that drive in December. Weather can turn very bad very fast.

Fort Robinson, fort Laramie, and Museum of the Fur Trade, are all great places to visit

 

[Fatcamp]

Bring a kite. I like to mount them on catfish rods. Get em waaay up there.

 

[TaperPin]

I spent 10 hrs Christmas Day right on the WY/NB border with a bad alternator, but it was -10, roads were icy, wind was blowing - a good time to hunker down and watch Rockford Files reruns. Had we not had sleeping bags as part of an emergency kit we definitely would have developed hyperthermia - even with help on the way, we were a lower priority after an accident in one direction and suicide in the other. Welcome to eastern Wyoming!

The craziest wreck on I80 has to be the giant pileup between Cheyenne and Laramie that burned a giant patch of the asphalt and a number of bodies were completely turned to ash - a judge had to declare the missing bodies dead.

The most memorable wreck has to be four horses standing sideways on the road, hit square in the middle by a semi - nothing but big pieces of disassembled horse all over the place. Driving through it was like a maze - go past the hind quarters of the big blackie, hard left and do a 180 around the neck of the appaloosa, then weave through the patch of large organs, and finally shoot the gap between the front and hind quarters of the brown horse.

If the weather is bad you’ll have a chance to watch people from warm states do the darnest things.

 

[wytx]

I spent 10 hrs Christmas Day right on the WY/NB border with a bad alternator, but it was -10, roads were icy, wind was blowing - a good time to hunker down and watch Rockford Files reruns. Had we not had sleeping bags as part of an emergency kit we definitely would have developed hyperthermia - even with help on the way, we were a lower priority after an accident in one direction and suicide in the other. Welcome to eastern Wyoming!

The craziest wreck on I80 has to be the giant pileup between Cheyenne and Laramie that burned a giant patch of the asphalt and a number of bodies were completely turned to ash - a judge had to declare the missing bodies dead.

The most memorable wreck has to be four horses standing sideways on the road, hit square in the middle by a semi - nothing but big pieces of disassembled horse all over the place. Driving through it was like a maze - go past the hind quarters of the big blackie, hard left and do a 180 around the neck of the appaloosa, then weave through the patch of large organs, and finally shoot the gap between the front and hind quarters of the brown horse.

If the weather is bad you’ll have a chance to watch people from warm states do the darnest things.

If you're talking about the Harriman pileup not quite what happened but close.

And he will not be driving from eastern Wyo to Laramie to eat a Jay's, at least I hope not.
17th St has good breakfast also.

Expect bad roads, cold weather and snow. Not much extra driving around I bet.
Hoping we're not frozen up by then, some years we get no waterfowl hunting due to freeze up.

Might be a neat drive into Sybille Canyon to see bighorns and and elk, Highway 34 from Wheatland.
Check into pheasant hunting also over there, East side.

 

[TaperPin]

If you're talking about the Harriman pileup not quite what happened but close.

And he will not be driving from eastern Wyo to Laramie to eat a Jay's, at least I hope not.
17th St has good breakfast also.

Expect bad roads, cold weather and snow. Not much extra driving around I bet.
Hoping we're not frozen up by then, some years we get no waterfowl hunting due to freeze up.

Might be a neat drive into Sybille Canyon to see bighorns and and elk, Highway 34 from Wheatland.
Check into pheasant hunting also over there, East side.

The crash I’m talking about is over a decade before the Harriman pileup in 2015.