05 Trip Pictures
Days 11-12, July 23-24 – The Long Ride Home, Part 1
 Outside our room in Estes Park |
 Could have been fishing at breakfast |
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 (Picture through a dirty windshield) |
 Hit 95,000 |
 95,000 and counting |
 Back in Gillette |
 Visiting Gary at home |
 Gary's wife Colleen |
Day 10, July 22 – Passing through lots of Passes
 The Cliff Dwellings in Manitou Springs |
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 Wilkerson Pass |
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 Fairplay, aka "South Park" |
 Rocky Mountain National Park |
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 The Continental Divide |
 Granby Lake |
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 Rest Stop at 12,000+ feet |
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Day 9, July 21 – Panic in the Garden of the Gods
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Day 8, July 20 – The Durango / Colorado Springs Dichotomy
 The Mystery Cars |
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 View from Wolf Creek Pass |
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 A rest stop outside of Pueblo, CO (100+ degrees) |
Day 7, July 19 - The Dance to 4 Corners and Durango
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 Railway car used in Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid |
 The San Juan Mountains |
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 Lizard Head Pass 10,222 feet elevation |
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 At the 4-Corners Monument |
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Day 6, July 18 - Gold Rush and the Colorado Monument
 GWTA Executive Director Bruce Keenon |
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 Elvis came to the GWTA dance! |
Day 5, July 17 - Grand Ride to Grand Junction
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 Tara & Jennifer from the GWTA office |
 Russ Grimm |
 Good friends Fran & Darrell Broten |
 New Region A Director, my buddy JR Phillips |
 GWTA Chairman of the Board, Dave & Bump Willenborg |
 Denny Ness & Vince Ash |
Day 4, July 16 - Cruising to Steamboat Springs
 Buffalo Ranch |
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 Independence Rock |
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 Entering Colorado |
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 Sunset at Steamboat Springs |
Day 3, July 15 - Doing Devils Tower
 Bad-Ass Bikers Jerry & Larry |
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 Devils Tower at Sunset |
Day 2, July 14 - Bumming with Buddies
 Jerry & Gary |
 Larry & Jerry |
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 An antelope on our walk |
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 My buddy Brad |
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Day 1, July 13 - Saddle Sore 1000
 7-11 worker Oralia- my Start of Ride witness, 3:40 AM PST |
 Quincy Stop for gas |
 Fell asleep in Ritzville |
 Beautiful day in Post Falls, ID |
 Look-Out Pass, just before Montana |
 Gas in Missoula |
 Met nice Canadians for dinner in Billings, MT |
 Me & Larry in Sheridan, WY |
 Finish line in Gillette, WY, 1:40 AM MST, 1057 mile in 21 hours |
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