Wyoming Boondocking - Day 24: Cloudy and Windy Day

 As forecasted, the weather dawned cloudy and would transform to pretty much solid overcast by 11 AM.

Sunrise was "meh" but it did light up the Haystack Buttes to the west somewhat:

On a happy note: Shithead Encroacher left the area this morning as I sat outside enjoying a cup of coffee.  Good Riddance!

Spent the morning doing my first MPC: Motorized Police Call.  No, I didn't call for some motorcops...police call is what the Army calls it when they have the troops "police up" or basically clean an area of trash/litter and so on.

I usually police up the area around a campsite I use, this time with the gray skies, I decided to ride Yagi to cover more area.  One of the sites, the littering arschlöcher had even left a big plastic bucket from which drywall mud had come in, I strapped it onto Yagi to be able to carry more crap as I found it.

I cruised up and down the nearby shorelines, several camping spots with fire rings and so on.  What are the littering arschlöcher thinking that dumping their trash inside the fire rings is good enough?

I would end up filling five bucketfulls, making trips to the dumpster at the boat ramp each time to empty the bucket for further collections.  

Around 11:30, the winds started to pick up and I made my fifth and last run....this time also hauling someone's discarded exhaust tubing.  I pulled it behind Yagi using some wire I'd found discarded.

The bucket's position

The exhaust tubing....at least I think that's what it was....

Some people are just such schweinhunde!

The winds turned pretty strong, cresting around the low 20 mph I think.  I stayed in the URRV the rest of the day, reading books and watching it rain sporadically and the temperature plummet from a high of 60F to 54F.  Sigh.  I've really lost all resistance to and willingness for riding in what feels like cold weather.

Oh, wanted to mention a fix I recently did to Yagi's leaking muffler joint where the exhaust pipe from the cylinder head connects to the muffler.  It had come to me with some sort of black rubbery sealant used to keep exhaust gases from leaking at this point.

When I'd re-assembled it months ago, I'd use muffler sealant (gray cement like consistency) and it had held up pretty good until about a week go.  Suddenly Yagi sounded more like a Harley Davidson motorcycle than a Honda.  Not good.

Being in the Wind River Canyon area, I'd no ready access to an Auto Parts store so I compressed the lips of the muffler tube to better contact the header pipe....still there was a tiny gap.  

What to do, what to do?  Then I had an idea.  I cut up a Red Bull aluminum can and used a strip of the metal to line the header pipe before inserting it into the muffler tube.  It was pretty tight and took some careful effort to get it seated.  Then I tightened down the clamp and it's been sealing pretty well I think.

At least, Yagi sounds normal now instead of like a Harley-Davidson wannabe!  It's not pretty but it'll do till I can do something a bit neater AND also use some muffler sealant which I purchased in Green River before arriving at the Flaming Gorge NRA.

The wind and rain seem to have done much to clear up the haze and smoke in the skies, tonight's sunset wasn't too shabby: