Guess the Route Contest
The winner of our "can you guess the route" contest is Terry Krysl from Houston, Texas but he grew up in Rawlins, Wy.
Terry has been on the Tour the last five year and, before that, he volunteered for two years.
Honorable mention goes to the following who also guessed the route: Holly Cunningham and Richard Karpay.
Second Honorable Mention goes to the following who had the correct towns but in the opposite direction:
Heide Rewarts, DuWayne Zuehlsdorff, and Kevin Haukaas.
Thanks to everyone who joined in the fun!
Here are the daily hints and tips that were given (one each day):
- Hint: We stay in one town for two nights and one of our overnight locations is not in a town. The tip will identify the nearest significant topographic feature.
- The tips may or may not be in the order of when we stay there. We have five overnight locations plus the start and end location.
- Tip 1:This town is named after a man who was once a scout for the U.S. Army’s 5th Cavalry and earned the Congressional Medal of Honor for valor in 1872. He served as a frontier scout for northern armies during the Plains Indian Wars, working for and with such men as George Armstrong Custer. He became well known for his entertaining shows that featured his bison hunting prowess.
- Tip 2: Named for John Wesley ________, the famed Grand Canyon explorer and early day proponent of federal reclamation and irrigation systems.
- Tip 3:This town was hit particularly hard by the Great Depression. To make ends meet, the manufacture of illegal bootleg liquor, labeled cough syrup, became an economic mainstay and was sold as far away as Chicago and San Francisco. One of the early residents was John “Liver Eating’” Johnston.
- Tip 4: First town in the region but was originally called Camp Colter in honor of mountain man John Colter.
- Tip 5: Nearest topographic feature: An Indian sentinel posted on top of hill thwarted army soldiers who were in pursuit of Nez Perce Indians who had attacked some of their fellow soldiers. The soldiers followed the Indians but opted to wait until morning to continue pursuit due to the sentinel. It wasn’t until the next morning when they noted the Indian had not moved that they realized they’d been fooled by an Indian corpse propped up on the hilltop.
- Tip 6: Ag; and the way through a fence.
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