Elevations, Passes, High Places

[Willsmotorcycle]

Raymond I see your sea level and raise you as high as I can.

 

[W0QNX]

OK how about the highest point in Kansas. Mt. Sunflower. Better take your oxygen bottle with you it's 4039 feet!

 

[dduelin]

Slumgullion Pass, CO. Miserly 11,530 feet.


How cold was it up there?

 

[W0QNX]

Now back closer to sea level. Highest point in Florida. 345 feet.

 

[the Ferret]

 

[ChucksKLRST]

I am glad you all had the opportunity to visit and ride my back yard. Now you all need to ride Cottonwood Pass. Not has high as the others but just a s beautiful. And then loop around and ride Independence Pass.

 

[Uncle Phil]

Blue Ridge Parkway Highest Spot - 6053'

Loveland Pass - 11991'

Lizard Head Pass - 10,222'

Monarch Pass - 8312'


All the major Sierra Passes (rode them in one day -http://www.unclephil.us/West2007Day04.htm) -
Donner Pass- 7057'

Yuba Pass - 6701'

Echo Pass - 7382'

Carson Pass - 8574'

Ebbetts Pass - 8730'

Monitor Pass - 8314'

Sonora Pass - 9624'

Tioga Pass - 9943'


And few of those passes across the pond -
Stelvio Pass - 9045'

Timmelsjoch - 8231'

 

[the Ferret]

I spent a week in Colorado riding passes and canyons with my buddies Offroad and Longranger ( a local who lived in Evergreen Co) a few years ago. It is indeed a beautiful place. Loveland Pass, Berthoud Pass, Gore Pass, Tenessee Pass, Freemont Pass, Guanella Pass, Kenosha Pass, Ute Pass, Wilkerson Pass, we had a grand time.

 

[ChucksKLRST]

I spent a week in Colorado riding passes and canyons with my buddies Offroad and Longranger ( a local who lived in Evergreen Co) a few years ago. It is indeed a beautiful place. Loveland Pass, Berthoud Pass, Gore Pass, Tenessee Pass, Freemont Pass, Guanella Pass, Kenosha Pass, Ute Pass, Wilkerson Pass, we had a grand time.

Wish I had known when you were here. Could have joined you for a day.

 

[dwalby]

All the major Sierra Passes (rode them in one day -http://www.unclephil.us/West2007Day04.htm) -
Donner Pass- 7057'
Yuba Pass - 6701'

Echo Pass - 7382'

Carson Pass - 8574'

Ebbetts Pass - 8730'

Monitor Pass - 8314'

Sonora Pass - 9624'

Tioga Pass - 9943'

Hey Phil, you have to come back and ride them all again, in the opposite direction. The mountain roads tend to have a different look when you're riding uphill, or downhill, the views change considerably.

 

[Uncle Phil]

Hey Phil, you have to come back and ride them all again, in the opposite direction. The mountain roads tend to have a different look when you're riding uphill, or downhill, the views change considerably.

I actually rode over them and then rode them back ...

 

[Erdoc48]

All very nice pics- I was in Colorado 6/17- 6/24- went to the base of Mt. Evans (now called Mt. Blue Sky for some reason) and you need reservations to go to the top, which we didn’t because we didn’t know you needed them. I was at lower elevations: Estes Park, Peak to Peak Highway, Left Hand Canyon, Rist Canyon, and some other roads that escape me now- my brother had his 2001 VMax and I used the 04 ST. Great riding overall and I believe > 1000 miles for the week (A->A trips, usually ~ 150 miles round trip). I was just out this AM on the scooter, but it’s really hot in SC now (left at 6:30AM and was back ~ 9:30A). Up at altitude in CO, I was never cold, just really comfortable with the armored shirt and airbag vest on.


Sorry, no pics at altitude, just the bikes at a stop in Black Hawk.

 

[ChucksKLRST]

How many of you have ridden Kebler Pass, (9980ft) Or better yet for the more adventures, Cinnamon Pass (12620ft) or better yet Mosquito Pass (13986ft) and those of you that are very daring Schofield Pass (10707ft) and those of you that are crazy Black Bear Pass. (12840ft) Kebler can be done with a road bike as long as it is dry. The rest, better bring your dirt bike. I must confess I have not ridden Schofield Pass or Black Bear. and now I am just too old and wiser to try. Although I have a good riding buddy that has done Black Bear on a BMW R100GSPD. He is the one who taught me to ride dirt. We have ridden a lot of the Colorado Back Country together. He grew up in Durango and Gunnison so he knew all the dirt adventures. O I forgot did a third attempt at Mosquito Pass with OKcKeith a few years ago. Did not make it to the summit that time, but we did Hagerman Pass (11925ft) with no issues. For a flat lander OKcKeith did great on the dirt.

Kebler Pass thru the Aspen





First trip up Mosquito with some of my riding friends. I am in the middle




Second time up with another riding buddy. I am on the left.




A great adventure over Cinnamon Pass on the way to the BMW National in Durango




Mosquito Pass third attempt with OKcKeith






Hagerman with OKcKeith

 

[the Ferret]

I remember riding Monitor and Ebbets passes in the Sierra Nevadas

I don't leave pavement on purpose so those others passes..well, I would pass (pun intended)

 

[Erdoc48]

^^ Requires special bikes and tires to do that. I’m not at all (as far as I know), good at off roading.

 

[Shuey]

I actually rode over them and then rode them back ...

. . . and with only one tire on the road . . . the front one, only coasting once started; using only 1 pint of fuel!

Shuey

PS: This absolutely would't surprise me to be true!