TY. Road trips are my favorite thing. Due to money and time I do not opportunity to this often. Thank you from all of us who need to get away virtually

i love driving in the rain. and the view from your rig is the best! these journeys are truly relaxing. be safe on the road. thanks for the ride

Does anyone besides me watch more than once? It’s one of my favorites when I have insomnia. Tonight it’s insomnia and a cold. I hear the engine and I already feel a little better. Thanks Mountain Man Mike 🙂

I used to run this back in 1970's, 1980's, 1990's .....too old to run now..... thanks for the video .... yup

@ridingshotgun1251

5 жыл бұрын

your welcome Jay.. Thanks for watching

Did you know that a lot of that dinosaur bone is radioactive? A rancher friend of mine, had a small place out by Fruita, Colorado, in the 50's during the uranium boom, he ran a minerals drilling rig. He collected tons of the bone and other interesting fossils and rocks. Apparently, the dissolved uranium salts, were the minerals that petrified the bone. He was showing me a huge pile of his finds one time, i went to sid on the edge of the pile, and, he warned me not to, if i ever wanted to have normal children. He once tried to haul a large femur bone in an old pickup, when the loader dropped it into the pickup bed, the bed folded in half, that, stuff is very dense rock. I love your videos, reminds me of when i used to get out in that country.

Thank you, never been to any of those places. Much enjoy your travels

@ridingshotgun1251

5 жыл бұрын

right onJoe..thanks for watching!

Born on the Left coast. Im seeing it all now... thanks to you ❤ getting a tour in grand fashion. Love being w a Prof driver. ❤😊 .

I do remember going to visit that dam in 1990! Wow! 29 years ago..I may be considered one of those fossils now.. 😢 We were visiting people in Vernal. Beautiful country! 109 miles from Vernal to Rock Springs. LOL, I find myself wanting to answer you. I miss trucking with my husband. He’s gone now. Truckin’ in Heaven. Lung Cancer. That was a bad habit back in those days..made every thing stink. Love your video’s. They are really enjoyable. Find myself wanting to get the Thermos out and pouring some coffee...

You have to be on top of your game. Never been there until now. I'm enjoying riding with you. Please be careful.

Love the state of Utah ,it is gorgeous as well as NM and AZ

Love this stretch of road. Drive it several times a year. It never gets old.

I have to say Mike you take the most interesting roads! Thanks for sharing! peace.

I love driving longhauls on lesser routes in South Africa, (private car). Your trips and scenery are beautiful too. I'm learning a lot about your area that is not shown anywhere else. I also like your driving style, keep up the safe road use and good vids. Thanks. Ken.

I grew up on a ranch just off 191 about where the video started. I been up that road countless times. I now live in Colorado and have not been there in 10 years, thanks for the ride.

Riding Shotgun has probably the BEST EDUCATIONAL videos ever posted on the internet. My students have been assigned classwork to watch vids of Geologist Dream, and of Colorado trips. Those trips thru the mountains are awesome!!!!

Thank You for the carefree ride, have a safe trip and always be careful!

I saw this video in my lineup. The title caught my eye. I live in Vernal and have travelled that road many times. I'll have to comment more when I have more time. Thanks for the video!

According to Google they're mining phosphorus-phosphates.

its interesting to watch such an amazing place with the turbo diesel engine music behind the scenes.. ohh and the rain makes it more beautiful gotta love those moments to make a perfect romance there.

What a road trip Used to go to Helper and Richman back I'm the day Sure is some pretty country Take me home country roads Thanks for the ride You are the best host by far keep up the good work cause sure do enjoy watching it .alot.

Thanks for the ride! Always heard and read about it, now I've seen it. On my list of must see.

Thx for film these routes Mike! I can come here to see the routes the wife and I have traveled on our recent road trips With much better video quality than we can do ourselves. You have a much more stable Platform, and an elevated one as well! LOL! Just did 191 southbound from the Tetons this past June of 2022, all the way to Vernal, Dinosaur, Rifle, Glenwood Springs, to Denver in a rented class B motorhome. Loved this route, But wished I was Doing it on my Goldwing Motorcycle on that stretch for sure! We turned in the motorhome in Denver and took our bike out of storage and went all over Colorado for the 2nd week of our trip!! We are from south Florida..

hey shotgun, we really enjoy your show, best tours on you-tube. we especially appreciate it when you watch your language, you don't to prove that your tough. To do what you do you alone on the road you have to be strong and tough.

Shotgun is driving a Volvo Allison automatic, notice how quiet the motor is compared to older semi-trucks. The click sound of the gears and he has mastered driving this vehicle. Impressive!

Flaming Gorge Reservoir is the largest reservoir in Wyoming, on the Green River, impounded behind the Flaming Gorge Dam. Construction on the dam began in 1958 and was completed in 1964. The reservoir stores 3,788,900 acre feet (4.6735×109 m3) of water when measured at an elevation of 6,040 feet (1,841 m) above sea-level (maximum). The reservoir is known for its world-class fishing for lake, brown and rainbow trout.

I did this trip in reverse in 2012, your video bought back many memories, thank you.

This shotgunner seat feels a lot like home! Been near, but not here! Curved-arch dams are amazingly strong, concrete monoliths! Such a massive, sturdy dam structure as Flaming-Gorge literally, never feels the weight of normal vehicular traffic across its top! Thanks Mike!

@foxiedogitchypaws7141

5 жыл бұрын

Before 911 you could go right up to Hoover dam and I thought that was incredible, but seeing this, I have to make a trip, just breathtaking views.

@edwardjones9631

5 жыл бұрын

Foxie Dog ..I drove across and also walked across Hoover Dam several times, back when the lake was almost full. It's lit up like Vegas if you fly over at night!

Thanks for the ride along, it's been several years since I've driven up US 191, brought back some sweet memories! Take care... peace

@ridingshotgun1251

5 жыл бұрын

glad i can help Les...

Whole different view if driving out of Rock Springs and making the loop back to I-80, just gorgeous any way we view it, thanks for a great ride and video. My favorite was the ride from Lewiston to Missoula, And I know how you feel about rv people but that’s how I roll. PEACE

Mercy sakes! What a journey! I'm sure glad you are such a good driver--I just about fell off my couch on a couple places. Thanks for the THRILLS. Peace.

Thank you again for a great ride along. I'm going to put this drive on my personal bucket list.

Thabks for the ride over the Damn and the awesome beautiful mountains to see as you drive. Mike you have a safe and happy XMASS

I enjoy your travelogue and comments along the way. Lots of places are new and beautiful discoveries. This one was a regular monthly business trip, north to south. Name pronunciation corrections if we may: Vernal= Vernl, Uinta=Youintah. The mines north of Vernal are phosphates, San Francisco Chemical Co. The EPA legislation of 1972 require land reclamation to the same topography as was before extraction, and the use of native flora. The country is habitation of mule deer, elk, moose and antelope, along with the usual coyotes, badgers, skunks, squirrels, fox, and a plethora of birds. Thanx again for the videos.

Miles and miles of road goodness I send some of your videos to my dad we used to go on vacation in summer time he's enjoying them as well Thanks so much for sharing The road trips help not so bored here thanks to you Keep em coming Happy trails to you Be safe

That mini rubber chicken always makes me laugh out loud 😂😂❤.

Very interesting view of Flaming Gorge in Utah, thank you, peace!

Thanks your Country land is so beautiful the landscapes roads mountains pass Thanks I'm living in South Africa I love it to open You tub and follow your most beautiful land I'm follow the PD Troopers I'm love it all Rain snow storm That took my mind a way far away I'm feel I'm sit in the passenger side wail you drive Thanks

@ridingshotgun1251

5 жыл бұрын

enjoy

@Larrywhite00

4 жыл бұрын

Stay in south Africa,, we dont want you here

Took this exact route only other direction in August 2020. I have been over the Flaming Gorge Dam several times but I have never gotten the view you gave me into the canyon. I am always driving and not as high as in your truck! Awesome! I have taken the other route on the west side. I have pictures of the bridge. I also have pictures of the dam from the direction you were going. There is a spot to pull off and read about the dam. I think they repaved the road from Grand Junction to Rangely because I don't remember it being that bad last year. I could be wrong. Thanks for the ride!

Geologist here. I couldn't help chuckling a bit with the terrain described as "hills". It's the Uintah or Uinta Mountain Range, one of the few east-west ranges in North America. The Uinta's have a quite unique origin having begun their existence as a widening chasm, one arm of a 3-armed radial rift system. The Uinta's are a failed arm, the Pacific Ocean opening for the first time as the other 2-arms lengthened and split off some sized chunk of North America and it began drifting west. As a failed arm (aka aulocogen), both sides of the chasm gradually collapsed allowing the deep rift basin to fill with silica rich sediments that now exist as a quartzite mostly. 191 is one of the really good geologic drives in the west, especially since they began marking the road with the various formation names.

Thanks for taking me on this trip. It beautiful & never been there & never been up north of United States.

Beautiful ride! Thanks!

WOW 😮 that’s long ride..But, I enjoyed watching the beautiful views from natures! Thanks...

Between fossils and gold, I'd be in heaven!

watching from Guyana South America. Love the videos bro. Keep trucking.

Wow Mike, I was holding my breath when you passed that simi! The scenery is incredible!!! This is my next road trip and if it takes me 2 months to get home, it will be your fault for showing me the stunning views

This is one of my favorite videos yet..im still trying to get caught up..thank u and please keep making videos!

Hello from Europé/Sweden thanks for the very cool rides you are posting.

@ridingshotgun1251

5 жыл бұрын

thanks for watching Peder,, enjoy peace!!

Such great videos brother -a privilege to watch!!!!

Thanks for your lovely videos!

Thanks for the ride. Never been on that part of Hwy 191.

Looks like a lot of tremendous forces were forced upon this land. Thanks for the "Tour." Being a secondary road it's in really good condition.

Mike. Thanks for the ride through Utah on rte.191. Be safe.

Hello Mike . A nother great video I did not know there was that big dam in Ut. Keep up the videos see you on the next one Stay Safe PEACE

I’m enjoying watching this video. I live in Vernal my whole life and been on that road many times. It’s a beautiful area. I keep making comments to my tv as if you could hear me, lol

JFK spoke a parking lot at the dam site in 1963. There were a few hundred people in attendance and I remember be about 20 feet back.

I really enjoyed this video the first time I drove this road was in 1982 at night in February

What a great ride! Thanks!

Luv ur videos, keep on trucking.

Thanks Mike beautiful ride!!!

Wow. US 191 looks wonderful from Douglas AZ all the way to Canada.

It's a beautiful route you are driving through

Awesome landscape.

Google map of the dam has great photos...nice video. thanks.

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I enjoyed the ride. That is one of my favorites.

91 miles length of water body. 534' deep.

That was an awesome Trip

Beautiful

Greatly enjoy riding with you.

I worked at the Jones Hole NFH and drove this road frequently on trips to Flaming Gorge to stock trout. It can be beautiful or treacherous depending on weather. Jones Hole fish hatchery is 42 miles NE of Vernal, UT...the road ends in the parking lot.

Thanks for the ride!

When I was a little boy I saw JFK start the first generator and speak a few months before he was shot.

I never took the northern rout when I drove cross country in my car. I wanted to avoid the mountains as much as possible. What a dunderhead! I missed all that beautiful scenery cause I was in to much of a hurry.

Thanks for the Ride Choked Chicken & Mike

glad you're driving !!! all i want to do is look out the window !!!!! thanks for the ride lady !!! ( scary movies from creepshow)

Love your wonky wipers. LOL

I just drove 191 south from Rock Springs Wyoming to Flaming George September 2019. Wish I had continued south to Arches NP. Maybe next time.

Think you for the ride nice.

Another great ride Thanks Mike. You really need to get that wiper motor changed.👍👍👍👍👍

@PeterALoch

5 жыл бұрын

John, what do you think of having those wipers in winter?

@johnbutton4013

5 жыл бұрын

@@PeterALoch don't think I would drive in winter or summer.

nice lest time out there was in a car in 1991. been driving 43 years now all east maine to fl. first 25 years . now just new York city and Washington dc area .dale n3reb

That mountain range is the only one that runs east and west in the lower 48 beautiful country.

the mine (J.R. Simplot) is phosphate which is slurry pipelined to Rock Springs. And from the base of the mountain to the Red Cloud Loop turn off over the years there has been a lot of trucks lose their brakes and crash on those switchbacks. Every place you see the concrete barriers trucks have left the road and most drivers get killed. Before the run-a-way truck escapes were put in (only 10 or so years ago) there were generally 4-5 truck wrecks a year coming down off that mountain from I-80. At 6:24 and 7:01 are the two curves where most truck wrecks occur. We refer to those truckers as "Flatlanders" You are correct the green fields are where they have mined and reclaimed the land which were once covered with Utah juniper cedar trees.

@dennisdunton6530

5 жыл бұрын

@Doug Kirk you seem to know everything BUT evidently DON'T know that there are no actual Cedars in North America.......only Junipers and some cypress varieties that are called cedars.

They used to grow a lot of alfalfa for seed out in Nevada and Utah, one variety was called "Vernal" i wonder if they named the town for it. That lake is pretty good sized, but, as i look out of my house i see Lake Superior, it contains one tenth of all of the fresh water on the planet, ant the only bigger lake by area is Lake Victoria, in Africa. Lake Baikal in Russian is smaller in area, but bigger in volume and millions of years old. Superior is only as old as when the Glaciers started to melt a little over ten thousand years ago.

I have never been on this hiway, but that is going to change.

your dodgey wind shield wipers made me nervous!

Drive Safe Ive been on them mountains

love the video...hate the ongoing wipers...where's the rain or snow?

This is my third trip on this route with you Mike and I may return ❤

I only comment about res, caus its been a few years since i spent happy time visiting, driving the US. Many of these roads we drove, but I just cant read the road signs an spot Motel names,places etc we stopped at. Yeh i would send a Camera if i lived in USA but here believe it or not prices are a rip off, a 30$ dash cams 75.! , along with Customs n Excise.

go mike go

What is the name of that dam? That was incredible

31:00 - the rock strata - Nice!

Do you think that the boat may be a a tour boat for those who would like to see the scenery of the lake? When I go on vacations I would like to hear the history and to film a lot of their of their scenery. Olso I always take my fishing with me. I also release my fish and mostly find a nice restaurant for a nice Rib Eye1

road trip to the mountains

There's a phosphate mining operation in that area.

What resources do you use to find out weight limits in order to plan your routes like this one? Thanks.

When the first issued CDLs, I thought it was idiotic to allow drivers that couldn't read to take an oral test. Many drivers took the oral true/false test because they had a 50/50 chance of getting the correct answer compared to 25% on the multiple choice written test. Reading is very important to driving a truck. I found out that we had 3 drivers that graduated high school that could barely read.

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What is this route like the end of October? Class C RV

the part you seen was only part of it its huge