Road Less Traveled - A Documentary by James Beatty

Day-21

July 27, 2006

Salida to Lake City Colorado...

So it’s time to leave Salida Colorado. It’s been great place to stay and ride around, but we’ve gotta make it to the Pacific Ocean. We had a heck of a time trying to find our way out of town and back onto the Trans-Am Trail for some reason, and when we finally did, Steven’s air filter, full of dirt, bogged out on him. So we called up the chase vehicle and they brought us lunch and then hauled Steven away. While the crew and Steven go to a local 4-wheeler shop to get some more foam oil and foam cleaner to take care of his bike, Michael and I rode off to Marshall Pass on our own.

Riding over Marshall Pass was a lot of fun. Sometimes it’s necessary to step off the trail markers and go explore the area trails and this was one of those times. It was beautiful on the Continental Divide at Marshall Pass so I had to take advantage of some of the cool little trails and go explore a little.

Meanwhile, Steven, Chris and Mathew rode a sky lift to the top of the Continental Divide on another mountain top. During which, Michael and I were flying over really fast open dirt roads. The trail between Salida and Lake City has a lot of landscape that looks like what I imagine Scotland to be. We were reaching our fastest speeds, over 90 mph across wide open plains and straight dirt roads with no speed limits. Just an hour outside of Lake City, nature called and I had to go find a bush to hide behind. While I was in one of the most compromising positions a person can be in, a bull walked out and stared me down. Not much I could do about it and luckily he walked away. We made it into Lake City as the last bit of light was in the sky.

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