DZ: The BMW is ready to go. I'm just waiting out traffic then heading towards Tahoe.
That little orange thing is our SPOT tracker which sends our position to a satellite every 10 minutes so our tracking page can be updated.
All packed up... Heading out (PixUp)
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Taking turns opening the cattle gates
The first of about 20 times Giselle fell over in the sand on the Pony Express Trail. Got heavier each time.
All kinds of fun things to do in Fallon. Gun & Knife shows, concealed firearms classes, even a ladies only intro to firearms.
Sand Mountain
Hwy 50
We really did see a badger just before we took this pic.
Dave Frank and Dave. Picture is purposely blurred because that's what things looked like to us after closing the bar in Eureka, NV with Frank, whose TAT ride report we'd been reading online.
Whole lotta this heading east on the TAT out of Eureka. After focusing on the sage brush whizzing by for hours, when you looked up at the clouds it looked like the last 20 minutes of Ghostbusters.
Maybe Giselle doesn't always run but she always looks good.
Cooling off.
Walker being patient.
Great roads through Humboldt Forest
Wild horses on the hill
Goggle tan is the problem with going second.
Seemed like the best lunch/early dinner ever at Whipple's Country Store.
Picture of a pretty horse. Pay attention, this is important.
Road into Sawmill Canyon. 6 pm on Tues.
Road kept getting worse and worse which was better and better for us.
On the switchbacks
Meadow at the top of the switchbacks. Shame it was too early to camp.
At this point the track was on grass. Felt like we were riding on a golf course.
Exact exclamations when I saw this “Whoa, a mule! No, a deer? Deer mule? Elk? Mule elk? Elk mule? Wait, mule deer? That sounds right.”
Not a bad view from our campsite on the top of Bullwhack Summit.
Basking by the glow of the laptop enjoying a squiskey (whisky in a squishy cup). Actually, reviewing the video to figure out when the SPOT fell off the back of the BMW. It was sometime between when I stopped to take the picture of the pretty horse and when I passed Walker halfway down the road.
Cave Valley (moving east on the TAT to a cutoff where we could double back to look for the SPOT).
The spot where we found the SPOT on the road into Sawmill Canyon.
Victory...
...deserves breakfast. So back to Whipple's.
Road up to Patterson Pass.
And down the other side.
The spot where the SPOT used to be.
Afternoon sub-tree nap and hydration.
Desolation around the southern end of Great Basin.
Back on Hwy 50 heading east out of Baker.
Back to cell reception. Checkin' in and charging gadgets.
Walker has been going through iphone withdrawl but now is back to playing online chess and checking his Facebook. (PixUp)
Waiting to hear from the BMW place and looking for wifi. Now where the F is the Flying J? (PixUp)
No stalls today but we still needed a rest.
Baby marshmallow-sized rock kicked up from the the truck in front of me.
Early morning on Independence Pass heading from Basalt to Denver.
Coffee in Idaho Springs (PixUp)
49 Special at the swing station in Laporte, CO (PixUp)
49 Special's response to our “constructive criticism” from the peanut gallery.
Picture's worth 1000 words. Okay, maybe I was feeling a little bitter after hearing so much trash talk about the BMW.
The mainstage at RockyGrass
Are we on a motorcycle trip or at a festival?
Elk in Rocky Mountain National Park
Ann on the back (PixUp)
After about 2 minutes in the hail, we decided to try to outrun this storm.
Guanella Pass
Nice to have a dedicated photographer
Self portrait
285 was closed because of an accident. The guy directing traffic took one look at the bikes and said “Well, with those things I'd head up over Weston Pass.” So we did.
Heading towards Buena Vista
Our first stretch of the Transamerica Trail heading west.
White elk?
Notice Walker speeding away from the baby cow.
Again although this one's a little bigger.
Say cheese!
I call this “Petals and Metal”
Waking up in buena vista (PixUp)
Approaching Lake City
Yellow Bellied Marmot. I am not sure if they are “lily-livered” as well.
Chimpmunkus Skavengus
Pulled in early. Nap time before heading up Engineer Pass.
Check out this bridge to the house
View from near the top of Engineer Pass.
There's always time for History
On the trail to Lake City, CO (PixUp)
Too many sweet jumps for the topcase
Heading up Cinnamon Pass
Top of Cinnamon Pass
The altitude has gotten to Ann... She's on the moon.
After the moonwalk.
Looking down into Animas Forks
"We're here to pump, you up!"
Up California Pass
Heading up Ophir Pass
Ophir Pass Local (look right above the sign)
License and Registration please...
Atop Cinnamon pass this morning (PixUp)
Adventuring is HARD.
Rolling out of Telluride
Our fueling system. We took turns on credit cards.
Telluride
Entering the San Juan National Forest
Huge puddles everywhere made for fun until our back knobbies got clogged with mud.
How'd this chimpmunk get a red M&M? Ann?
Lunch break at the West Dolores Campground
GPS said the track went right through these cows.
Other side of the forest was FLAT.
Farm land
Heading towards the Manti-LaSal National Forest and into UT
Skirting the thunderstorms on the plains.
Guess the landowners decided they didn't like all those motorcycles riding across this section.
Into the Manti-LaSal and the trails were the rockiest and loosest yet. Much harder than the steep, precarious passes in CO.
Rush hour traffic
Canyonlands from Manti-LaSal
Camp
Down towards Moab
You don't want to get a dualsport tan.
Ann has decided she's tired of riding on the back.
Heading along the Colorado to cool off
One of the 20 plus (each way) watercrossings on the Onion Creek Trail,.
Fisher Towers?
Heading out for adventure on the White Rim Trail.
Top of the switchbacks
First bathroom stop of the day.
Leeeeezard
Hardscrabble Hill
Making a break for shade
Murphy Hogback
Finding shade when we could
Switchbacks on the way back up
Doug Walker's recommendation in Moab (PixUp)
