- Week Fall ride in Colorado

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Spent four days and did our last ride of the year before the snow flies here in Colorado. This ride took in Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and Utah - a quick 1,700 miles or so.
Joining me on this last ride was a friend from Missouri on his Duc Multi. Todd.
First off, we spent half a day riding within a few miles of my house in north central CO amongst the old gold mines and mills ...

 

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Next day and we headed southwest, past the Taylor Reservoir. Looks like a bit of rain moving in so we bolted around it. My bet is that the guy in the boat got wet ...

 

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Up and over Slumgullion Pass near Lake City. Deserted road with tons of curves. It'd be a shame not to hit it at 75 mph...so we did.

 

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A little off road action near Creede and the Bachelor Mine from years ago, Huuuuge ore house and lots of old structures to explore ...

 

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Great views from Spring Creek Pass of the valley below.

 

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Next day and we're heading towards Durango. Stopped for th

e obligatory fall color shots ...

 

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In fact, it was hard not to get some color into each shot with so many trees ....

 

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But we're here to ride some rocks so we took off on the Alpine Loop / Animas Forks route ...

 

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Animas Forks is an old mining town that has been abandoned. Had to be tough living up here back in the day....

 

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More of the Forks ...

 

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Todd wasn't loving life at this point as he had streety tires and shitty rims on his bike ...

 

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My bike was loving it with newer Trailmax's though ...

 

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Not wanting to look like complete

fat asses, we got off the bikes and attempted to hike a bit..

 

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Hiking in our riding gear made me sweat like a fat girl in gym class ....

 

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You should never enter old mine shafts as they are dangerous, so of course, we did just that as we aren't all that smart ...

 

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Starting to rain, so it's time to beat feet to a hotel ....

 

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Bullwinkle says "hi" to you all ...

 

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Stopped in Ouray for some chow and saw one of the locals chowing

on some vines on a house .[..

 

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Despite the misty conditions, it was a great day to ride...

 

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Not everyon

e was having as great a day as we were ...