Short Ride with Blanche
Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2014 7:14 pm
This was the route I took ... roughly 200 miles of up/down/twisties/slab this AM out of Salt Lake City. Left the house at about 74 F and had to put on heated gear when I got to Kamas as it was in the low 50's and knew that I would be heading to higher elevations. Warmed up to mid 80's while in Evanston, Wy. Traversed two major mountain ranges (Wasatch/Uinta) went from about 4500' to 11,000' during this trip. Blanche performed flawlessly and certainly love the Kriega solution over the bags.
Mirror lake boat launch just coming down from Bald Mountain in the high Uinta Mountains about 75 miles from Evanston on 150. Stretch from Kamas, Ut (marker B) to Evanston, Wy (marker C) goes over Bald Mountain pass and has twisties, deer and open range animals moving around. Dodged more "spandex" on this ride than ever before.
Bald Mountain in the background which sits at almost 12,000' above sea level. The snow usually does not stay this late in the season. To the right of Bald Mountain about another 5 miles sits a few boy scout camps where they warm the lakes with ice cubes. A season or two before, there was a huge fire that shut down most of this area - did not see any evidence of this fire on my ride. You get a chance to ride Utah, there are TONS of great rides throughout the state.
Its nice to have such great rides close to home!
