Show us your pictures on "THE GREAT PLAINS"

Love the old/new photo comparison.

One of my favorite places to go!!!

Here are some pics of some plains states. This was a trip we took in 2008.

Dealing with the rain in Oklahoma...


Kentucky Storm...


Sun shining in Nebraska...


Who said the plains were just flat?!


Day started with sunshine in South Dakota...


and then....

Awesome! Thanks for the pictures.


(crossing that flood was inadvisable)

It wasn't as bad as it looks in the photo. We deliberated over it for a while. We walked it and found that it we could cross safely. Good point though, for anyone who does encounter anything like that.

Taken just across the border between Kansas and Colorado



Taken between Denver and Colorado Springs



Taken between Denver and Colorado Springs

Best I've got from my ride thru ND and MT last fall.

Now that Sodbuster's a Washingtonian, can it be all that long before we see detailed historical accounts of those prairies east of the Cascades, Battle at Steptoe Butte, the hunt for Harry Tracy, history of the Omak Stampede, etc??

My family homesteaded up above Omak (Disautel pass) and I grew up north of Spokane. There's some fascinating country out there and some history as well. I live in the mountains now but miss the open spaces and go back every chance I get.

SR

When I was a kid, I worked on a ranch in the Sandhills of Nebraska. The air was clean, the days were long and hard and the sunsets were spectacular. My parents are buried at a tiny cemetary on top of a hill in Hyannis, a small town about 45 miles north of Lake McConaughy. If you drive north from the lake you come upon Arthur, Nebraska. This a town of around 50 people. What makes it unique is that the fence posts leading up to the town are covered with the boots of cowboys. Some of these boots have been hanging there for decades. I'm going back in a couple of weeks. Loved your photos!

We'll be looking forward to some of those boot pictures in a couple weeks..

"long live the Sandhills"

Comanche National Grasslands...

Very nice!

leaving thurs to ride from central PA to SLC for the WSBK races. looking forward to seeing some of this scenery myself...

Thanks to guys like you, this thread has got some of the best pics in RR
I have always enjoyed my trips through Kansas and Nebraska always being awed by the vastness of the plains.
I have never understood some of the negative attitudes of traveling through them.
It must have been one helluva sight to crest one of those gentle rises on the plains and have thousands of buffalo come into view.

Thanks
Glen

Great Plains Documentary

Spent the week traveling with the film crew making the PBS Documentary Film about Mike Forsberg and the making of his "Great Plains" Book.


"Prairie Smoke"

The region known as the "Duck Factory" because of its role as the largest waterfowl and shorebird production area in the Lower 48, is an ocean of wild flowers this time of year..


Its also teaming with wildlife and few humans.



Sunrise on one of the abundant lakes



One of the more unique residents, the Western Grebe is known for its courtship display, or Rushing Dance.






Sunset with the Shoveler


Great place to spend time, even greater place to ride..


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Wow, great pics Bill.

Hey, nice avatar!

Finally starting to green up..

Hey Dusty,

Great Shots, especially the one with 990 in it...