{"id":5581,"date":"2017-09-18T15:07:55","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T19:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=5581"},"modified":"2019-02-12T07:22:29","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T12:22:29","slug":"stw3-hop-3-ennis-mt-to-missoula-mt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/18\/stw3-hop-3-ennis-mt-to-missoula-mt\/","title":{"rendered":"STW3 Hop 3: Ennis MT to Missoula MT"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"STW3<\/a>

STW3 Hop 3<\/p><\/div>\n

198 miles on US 287, MT 359, I-90 and US 93. Cumulative tow miles: 386. Truck miles: 208. Cumulative truck miles: 497.<\/p>\n

This hop, except for the first 40 miles, was almost exclusively on I-90. We did make two stops: a rest area stop about 150 miles into the trip and an emergency stop a few miles later because I noticed that one of the rear truck tires – the spare put on the night before by AAA – was wobbling. I tightened the lug nuts and made it the final 20 miles to the campground where I tightened them again.<\/p>\n

That was WAY<\/strong> too close to disaster. I never, ever want to see my tire wobble again.<\/p>\n

Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the trip? Just fine, thanks. Beautiful, in fact, though still chilly, with snow-covered mountains everywhere.\u00a0 There were also a couple of long uphill climbs that surprised me as Missoula is at 3200 feet elevation, a 1700 foot drop from Ennis.\u00a0 In fact at one point we were at 6400 feet, a 1500 foot climb from our starting point. Up and down.\u00a0 But the truck handled it just fine.<\/p>\n

Except for almost losing a tire.<\/p>\n

\"Snow-covered<\/a>

Snow-covered mountains nearby<\/p><\/div>\n

Our one-night stay was at the Ennis RV Village<\/a> in Ennis MT (population about 900), in the middle of nowhere.\u00a0 As I explained before, the sole reason for being in Ennis was that it was lower – and warmer (low of 32 versus 25)\u00a0– than West Yellowstone.\u00a0 It was not a good place to look for tire repair, though AAA eventually came through for us.\u00a0 And there was a food store less than a mile away, so we didn’t starve.\u00a0 The site was large and flat.\u00a0 More than adequate for an overnight stop.<\/p>\n

\"Plains<\/a>

Plains and mountains<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

198 miles on US 287, MT 359, I-90 and US 93. Cumulative tow miles: 386. Truck miles: 208. Cumulative truck miles: 497. This hop, except for the first 40 miles, was almost exclusively on I-90. We did make two stops: a rest area stop about 150 miles into the trip and an emergency stop a … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,73,4,7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-places-mt","category-places","category-routes","category-rvparks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-1s1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5581"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7488,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5581\/revisions\/7488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}