Day-22

July 28, 2006

Lake City Colorado to Monticello Utah...

Steven’s cleaned his air filter and thrown some carb cleaner in his gas and he’s ready to join Michael and I as we leave the beautiful Lake City. There are very few places that we have come across that are as quaint as Lake City Colorado. It’s a bit of a tourist spot, but it’s not as bad as some places and it really is beautiful. It’s like an old wild west town that’s still alive in the 2000’s with fun restaurants, inns, and bars to go to. And it’s located in this tiny little valley between enormous Rocky Mountains. But nonetheless we ride on.

We climbed some really fun passes today including Cinnamon Pass, California Gulch and Ophir Pass. Today was full of amazing scenery, great riding with a few jumps and stream crossings for good measure. The only embarrassment came when I crashed my bike because a Marmot freaked me out by jumping back and forth in front of me.

One of the highlights of the day came when Steven and I climbed a snow drift on the top of Cinnamon Pass. We then turned around and slid on our butts down the snow drift and I had the miss fortune to hit a rock under the snow with my tail bone. OUCH!!!

Ophir Pass looks like an alien planet with no life, millions of rocks and the Black Mountains of Mordor lingering in the distance. We soon crossed into Utah as the sun went down and found our chase vehicle in Monticello Utah.

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Photography Copyright © 2006 Motorrad Media and Chris Rankin. All Rights Reserved.

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