Good morning from Taylor Park:
This morning I rode my bike up to Cottonwood Pass at 12,126 feet. Cottonwood Pass is the highest paved mountain pass over the Continental Divide:
Clay and I motorcycled the area:
Had a little fall, breaking off the mirror and the end of the clutch handle:
Rush hour on the trail:
Goodnight:
Today, I said goodbye to Jason and Clay, drove south from Crested Butte, then East to Taylor Park. The welcome wagon came by to welcome me to the neighborhood:
Not a bad spot:
See the trip map for today’s drive.
Shabbos was pleasant dispersed camping north of Crested Butte. I went for a walk and met Jason and Clay, who are also up here with their motorcycles.
Today, the three of us rode up Washington Gulch into Paradise Basin:
Interesting mining area:
Seemed like a good place to turn around:
We crossed Schofield Pass and visited the ghost town of Gothic. Mount Gothic in the background:
This morning I motorcycled the bicycle down to Crested Butte, then took the free shuttle with the bicycle up to Mount Crested Butte:
I rode Snodgrass, Lupine, Lando Calrissian, and Lower Loop, and ended up back in downtown Crested Butte:
I then motorcycled the bicycle west of town to ride Canal, Strand Bonus and Strand. I rode along with three riders I met at the trailhead. A thunderstorm moved in during the ride, making a slippery mess of the trails. It also meant that I had to cross a flooded canal, which was ankle-deep when I started but on the way back was waist-deep:
Good Shabbos from near Crested Butte, Colorado!
First morning in my new dispersed camping location, with cell service:
I lashed the bike to the motorcycle and drove up to the trailhead to ride Crested Butte’s most famous trail, Trail 401:
The ride up to the beginning of the trail follows a dirt road:
Trail 401 did not disappoint! The wildflowers were incredible:
On the way back to the motorcycle, I visited the town of Gothic:
Gothic is home to the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory:
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