WELL, TIME TO RECAP YESTERDAY. (SATURDAY) GORGEOUS DAY TO RIDE. SHERPA AND HIS WIFE LOIS JOINED US FOR A 200 MILE PLUS RIDE.
YEP, THAT IS SOME OF MY HANDY WORK ON SHERPA’S LEFT EYE!
SHERPA VS GLASS WALL….WALL 1 — SHERPA 0!
FIRST SEGMENT WAS SPEARFISH CANYON. OF COURSE THAT WAS AFTER ANOTHER BIG OMELET AT THE WHITEWOOD FAMILY RESTAURANT.
AS MANY TIMES AS I HAVE DONE THAT ROAD, IT WAS THE FIRST TIME IT WAS NOT BUSY. GOOD START.
DID THE LOOP DOWN BY BUCKHORN, WY AND OVER TO CUSTER STATE PARK. SHERPA HAD NEVER DONE THE NEEDLES HWY. IT WAS PERFECT. VERY LITTLE TRAFFIC AND GREAT RIDE.
HERB
JACK & LOIS AT ONE OF THE TUNNELS ON NEEDLES HWY!
(SHOULD I SAY SOMETHING ABOUT THE CAR?)
ON THE WAY HOME WE HAD DECIDED TO GO VISIT THE MOONSHINE GULCH SALOON. IT WAS AN HOUR RIDE RIDE VIA PAVED ROADS. WELL, AFTER GOADING BY SHERPA FOR NOT RIDING ON DIRT ROADS….I SAID, “WHAT THE HECK….SWITCHING TO FOUR WHEEL DRIVE.” CLICK ON LINK BELOW:
CAN’T SAY MUCH FOR THE BURGER, BUT THE BEER WAS COLD! HAD A FEW BEERS AND TONS OF LAUGHS!
RODE BACK TO CABIN. PACKED UP THIS MORNING AND RODE TO LOVELAND, CO. RIDING TO PONCHA SPRINGS, CO VIA ROCKY MOUNTAIN NP AND MT EVANS… 14,440′ RIDE TO TOP! HIGH TODAY WAS 46 DEGREES UP THERE.
I WILL END WITH SOME GREAT NEWS…MY BUDDY TANK CALLED TODAY…HIS VACATION WAS APPROVED..HE IS LEAVING NC ON EARLY FRIDAY MORNING AND MEETING US IN MOAB, UT SATURDAY NIGHT! ONLY A 2,100 MILE RIDE IN TWO DAYS!