Wyoming Boondocking - Day 9: Displacing to a less crowded spot

 This morning, I took the opportunity to ride Yagi over to the "good spot" to get views of Bighorn Peak and neighboring mountains before the haziness of the day set in:

Today's plan had begun with "grin and bear it" in terms of the site hoggers and increasingly (in my mind) crowded conditions in the area I had set up camp.

So, to get my mind elsewhere, I loaded up Fiona and headed into Buffalo to get groceries after a visit to the Jim Gatchell museum.

On the way down from the campsite, I decided to detour to check out an unexplored forest road (keeping location secret for now) and the views from it before continuing onto town.

Boy am I glad I did, the road wound its way steadily higher, and things got better after I stopped to pose Fiona at this rock formation:

I found a Campground, run by the US Forest Service but it seemed to cater to horse trailer rigs and such.  Also, the slots that were open were reserved so no go anyways.

I then explored a side road which led to private property but before the sign for such, it showed another road climbing up the hill.  Hmmmm.

I pointed Fiona up the hill and it was an easy if somewhat rocky road up to a gate.  The gate/road is closed from Nov 16-June 15 every year for wildlife protection.  Otherwise, one is free to open the gate (secured only by wire) and go on through.

A short ride later, I was on top a Mesa!  Flat ground as the name implies, with the only structure being a small building housing equipment for a telcom antenna of some type.  Otherwise, the forest road runs along the mesa and eventually hits private property fence line.

However, there's a wide area suitable for RV Camping!

After the above pics, I hurried on down the hill, back onto Highway 16 and onto the exit for Circle Park Road.  I broke camp down in about an hour, probably less and soon I was driving Umarang and the motorcycles over to find a new site on top of (name undisclosed) Mesa!

I picked a spot a bit away from the forest road (you're allowed up to 300 feet away) and found a nice flat-ish spot, didn't even have to use any leveler boards!

Set up camp and by 2:15 PM I was all set:

Not too shabby a view eh?  I then finished today's tasking by riding into town but only for filling up Fiona's gas tank and get groceries.  I'll do the museum probably tomorrow.

Returning, Umarang was still the only rig on the site!  I did spot a small convoy of three vehicles, one towing a small travel trailer but they continued onto and into the private property that borders this national forest location.  The trees you see behind Uma are on private property and there's fencing to delineate it for you.

Sunset was "ok", I am quite happy with this spot.  

The  only possible "fly in the ointment" is that Monday is now forecast to bring 10" of snow to the Buffalo area!  I had stopped by the Forest Service office before groceries and posed to them questions.  The guy I talked to turned out to be a former Uralista! He'd owned two previously and was now working his way through a Royal Enfield.

He said/thought that most of the forecasted snow would be above 10,000 feet and that the Mesa area wouldn't get near the same amount; though there is the possibility of ice.  The forecasted temperatures following Monday's snow would melt away the snow in a couple of days and make the forest roads passable once again he said.

So, I'll be making a weather decision come noon on Sunday, whether to stick it out or cut and run....I'm presently of a mind to stick it out as I've got a half tank of propane which should last me over ten days with heater usage, stocked up on groceries and nearly a full tank of gas to run the onboard generator if needed.