We're off to Colorado! All told, we had 5 guys--4 on motorcycles, and our good buddy who was headed to Farmington, NM to go ride mountain bikes. He was eventually an important evac driver...
Starting in Trinidad, CO, we eventually made it to the first real look at the stunning San Juans (this is east of Lake City).
Apologies for the slightly disturbing pic here. My half-paralyzed face makes for some, um, very pirate-y pics at times. I was giddy because I had just made it up a very loose and sketchy California Pass with a bike that was very poorly jetted and with a slipping clutch (all on me, the bike was a trooper).
Many gaps in the pics here. We're now trying to figure out how to extract our buddy's disabled Triumph after he perfed the oilpan east of Stony Pass off the Alpine Loop.
Disabled Triumph loaded. From here, we took driving shifts to make it all the way home to OKC.
All told, it was an incredible trip. We covered around 500 miles of our planned 850. The remaining miles would have been very easy ones--my buddy damaged his bike (and broke his ribs) on what I think would've been the last mile or so of nasty trail for the whole trip.