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Monday, July 9, 2012

postheadericon Cheri July-9-12

8:44 PM | Posted by Sharp's Travels

We had one more ride to do before we leave Gunnison.  We took a back road called Ohio Creek up Ohio Pass and up over Kebler Pass, at 9,980 elevations, then down into Crested Butte and back into Gunnison.  It is a 90 mile loop.  


The road began as a paved road and the climb up the mountain was beautiful.  There were lots of old buildings and grazing meadows for the cattle.  We soon ran out of paved road and once again traveling on a hard packed dirt road.  We went by a formation called The Castles, inspiring spires carved from the West Elk volcano, extinct for thousands of years.  One could easily see why it was given the name Castles.   


The tall pines were beautiful.  It wasn’t long before we were into the Aspen.  They lined both sides of the road and as far back as you could see.  As we neared the top, it leveled out again and we had Aspen on one side of the road and huge pines on the other side.


The road now was dirt with rocks to weave around.  The wild flowers were beautiful on top of the pass.  It was hard to get good pictures of them as we traveled.


We headed down the pass into Crested Butte.  We picked out one of their many restaurants and settled in for some lunch.  We didn’t spend much time there because we had already checked out all the little shops in town last week.  This trip was just a sightseeing day.  


It was only 27 miles back into Gunnison and we can’t believe the sun is still shinning.


We made a stop at the Traders Rendezvous.  We spent a little time in this shop.  They had every wild animal native to this area, stuffed and ready to sell as well as thousands of antlers.


We walked out of the shop and guess what, it was SPRINKLING!  We jumped on the bike and headed for the 5th wheel.  We just wanted one day that we didn’t have to put the rain suits on.  Now that I have 2 rain suits!  Hopefully I won’t ever have to wear one.


To see pictures of the day click on this link https://picasaweb.google.com/sharpstravels then click on album: Ohio Pass Ride.

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