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Most remote BMWMOA member?

bigskyrider

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I thought it would be fun to find out where our most "remote" BMWMOA member resides.
I know I'm not the most remote, but I would bet I rank up somewhere with the top ten!

I live ten miles north west of Reed Point Mt. http://www.city-data.com/city/Reed-Point-Montana.html

Short riding season, but when summer comes along we have some of the best roads anywhere. I'm within an hour of Red Lodge and the Beartooth Highway and just a short twelve hour jaunt west on I-90 to Seattle.
1. Nearest grocery store is a 64 mile rountrip.
2. Nearest drive through coffee (City Brew...montana starbucks) is in Billings 130 mile roundtrip.
3. Nearest BMW shop Missoula, MT 580 miles roundtrip.

Tell us what remote spot you're from.........

Cheers!

Mike
 

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That looks pretty remote

I felt pretty remote with all the snow we have had this month but after looking at the photo I guess I am still pretty urban. If that is your home in the photo you are a very lucky person. I bet it gets pretty cold out there when the wind picks up...brrrrr.

I did get out today for a ride but didn't see any other bikes on the road. I did see one BMW on a trailer outside the BMW shop but that doesn't count.

btw, it looks like you have plenty of room for campers on their way out west..:stick

Stay warm
 
Thanks Geo,

I do feel lucky, I keep one of my Beemers down south in the winter and the other hibernates via Sta-bil until spring.

The sunshine is deceptive, I took both of these pics last week when the temp. at night was -25 and the high during the day reached a balmy -5 F.....yikes. This pic is looking out across the front yard.


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see the mountains when I wake up too

I dont think I am quite that remote but I live in the foothills of the Davis mountains about 30 miles south of Pecos Texas. The nearest BMW dealer is in El Paso 475 mile round trip, grocery store 60 mile round trip, super walmart and sams 220 mile round trip. We also have great riding here on and off road, year round.

Franklin
 
You call living ten miles from Reed Point (which is practically on I-90) remote? Dude, you need to see the rest of Montana! You have a great little drive up coffee shack in the truck parking lot at Columbus, that's got to be less than 30 miles from you and a lot closer than Billings.

There is a BMW owner who lives between Brockton and Circle. Now that is remote. He's submitted articles for the ON and the MT BMW Riders newsletter. Of course, those are about his rides in the southlands, since he gets out of here in the winters.
 
I'm not that.......remote.

Anyway, just a way to get things started......I thought it would be fun to hear about spots around the states where people live and ride.

Cheers!

Mike
 
Ssshhh! Keep it down fellas.

All I ever tell people about our home state is how low the mercury dips in winter, and what the Wendigo does to lost GS riders.
 
I'm on a dirt road,nearest traffic light is 65 miles away,am 125 miles from the nearest divided highway. The closest dealer is a 350 mile round trip,but,having lived in many different parts of the country,and travelled through all but 4 of the United States,and all but 3 provinces,I'd sooner live here than anywhere else I've seen.Built this place over 10 years ago,and have no regrets.
 

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You call living ten miles from Reed Point (which is practically on I-90) remote? Dude, you need to see the rest of Montana! You have a great little drive up coffee shack in the truck parking lot at Columbus, that's got to be less than 30 miles from you and a lot closer than Billings.

There is a BMW owner who lives between Brockton and Circle. Now that is remote. He's submitted articles for the ON and the MT BMW Riders newsletter. Of course, those are about his rides in the southlands, since he gets out of here in the winters.

Speaking of remote, I rode to Yaak, stopped at the two saloons and checked out the place, but decided I needed to move on before dark... so how does Yaak compare with other remote areas of Montana?
 
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Our adobe in Big Bend Country of Texas has to be in the running. We're about 26 sMiles from Mexico and 30 from the ghost town of Terlingua. The border control stop is 41 miles NORTH of us and our nearest real grocery store is in Alpine, 53 miles north. Not a traffic signal in all of Brewster county.

We really are in the frontier! The last frontier as Alpine claims.

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Voni
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Speaking of remote, I rode to Yaak, stopped at the two saloons and checked out the place, but decided I needed to move on before dark... so how does Yaak compare with other remote areas of Montana?
The Yaak seems remote, doesn't it? It's the lowest spot in Montana in elevation, too; didn't you feel like you were way up in the mountains? It's a bit crowded; when I ran sled dog teams I ran them south of there, below Libby instead of above.

There is a group ride out of Troy every July that goes over that route and into Eureka. One year, there were about 150 of us, we are riding along in a pretty long line of bikes but, since it's mostly one paved lane and real twisty, we were not going very fast. I kept gaining on the bike in front of me, I won't comment on the brand he was riding but it was wide and he was gliding and he didn't know how to corner. Anyway, up near Sullivan Creek a line of cars came from the direction of the dam, heading towards us, about 12 cars, all were new police cruisers. They were taking them out for a break-in cruise. I'm not sure who was more surprised: a group of bikers running into cops, or a group of cops running into bikers, up in the Yaak.

Rick Bass lives up there and has written a few books about it.
 
This month's Road Runner has an article about touring western MT - they went through Yaak. I'd love to get out there some day.
 
You may as well come back to Kansas with all that white stuff on the ground....:dance

The difference is that was the one day last year we had snow. And it was all gone by noon.

And I don't have any snow pictures this year.

Not so in Kansas . . .

Voni
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This month's Road Runner has an article about touring western MT - they went through Yaak. I'd love to get out there some day.

The Yaak.....:fart Montana is just a state of mind. The land of no land use planning big time and it shows. Only thing maybe as bad is Idachoke. I wouldn't be riding a beemer in the Yaak what with the good ol' boys in abundance.

Try Metaline Falls, WA for remote and the scenery will put the Yaak to shame.
 
Our adobe in Big Bend Country of Texas has to be in the running. We're about 26 sMiles from Mexico and 30 from the ghost town of Terlingua. The border control stop is 41 miles NORTH of us and our nearest real grocery store is in Alpine, 53 miles north. Not a traffic signal in all of Brewster county.

We really are in the frontier! The last frontier as Alpine claims.

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Voni
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Zounds Paul and Voni! IÔÇÖve heard you describe your place in Texas and how you have tried to make your lives less complicated, but didnÔÇÖt realize how much you have minimized and simplified things. Annie and I are talking about doing the same thing and your example sets a high standard. I find we work to make money to maintain a house that is much more than we need, and buy other things we can do without. There is much to recommend having a place that is pure peace and a location to plan for your next road trip. Congratulations on taking the leap that others only talk about.

By the way the current temperature at the Fort Wainwright Army Airfield is -45 F. I was going to take a picture of the ice fog for the ice thread in the photography forum, but my camera froze.
 
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