2024 Pashnit Touring on a Hayabusa
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Highway 89 | Monitor Pass | California Motorcycle Roads | Pashnit
Alpine County Motorcycle Rides - Montor Pass
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Heenan Lake is a 130-acre lake at 7200 ft elevation, alongside Highway 89 eight miles in that is known for its lahontan cutthroat trout, a native species of the east side of the Sierra Nevada. The lake is strictly catch-and-release open to fishing only in the fall. The Dept of Fish & Game takes up to 2 million eggs annually from the cutthroat in Heenan Lake during May for restocking 30 other lakes in California & Nevada.
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That's my go-to example of an incredible view that you have to see in the flesh, doesn't translate to pictures at all. Been there dozens of times.
Gonna try something new. Got a new windscreen. This is the Zero Gravity SR clear screen. Changes the look of the bike a wee bit from the tall Sport-touring screen I normally use.
Well kids , it's summer now and enough snow has melted in the Sierra Nevada Range to get up and over the Sierra Nevada Passes.
20 years ago, we started the Sierra Nevada Tour in Livermore, on the edge of the San Francisco Bay Area, then zipped across the Central Valley and into the Sierra Nevada Range. We even offered the Sierra Nevada tour three times per season way back 20 years ago. But this is also the 230th Pashnit Tour and we've got to change things up a bit by meeting in Colfax at the 2400 ft elevation in the foothills. We're here because of Iowa Hill Rd.
Heading for the meet spot early in the morning with the rising sun. We meet all over the state, but this one is only an hour from my homebase
Highway 49
Meeting Luc & the riders in Colfax - Iowa Hill Rd is just a mile from the meet spot
Well kids , it's summer now and enough snow has melted in the Sierra Nevada Range to get up and over the Sierra Nevada Passes.
20 years ago, we started the Sierra Nevada Tour in Livermore, on the edge of the San Francisco Bay Area, then zipped across the Central Valley and into the Sierra Nevada Range. We even offered the Sierra Nevada tour three times per season way back 20 years ago. But this is also the 230th Pashnit Tour and we've got to change things up a bit by meeting in Colfax at the 2400 ft elevation in the foothills. We're here because of Iowa Hill Rd.
Heading for the meet spot early in the morning with the rising sun. We meet all over the state, but this one is only an hour from my homebase
Highway 49
Meeting Luc & the riders in Colfax - Iowa Hill Rd is just a mile from the meet spot
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Iowa Hill Rd is paved, single lane, and nearly a 20% grade making it one of the steepest roads in the foothills, found in the American River Canyon dropping down 1500 ft in a few miles and back up out of the canyon to Iowa Hill. A gold rush town of course, the town site was producing about one hundred thousand dollars per week in gold in 1867. You've likely never heard of Iowa Hill because they don't even have electricity here despite it being 2024, and being a mere nine miles from a major freeway. What they do have is an awesome single lane canyon ride to the tiny mountain community and through the forest to Sugar Pine Reservoir and on to Foresthill. We're headed for Mosquito Ridge Rd, closed for the last few years, which just opened up a few days ago.
Hairpins dropping into the American River Canyon
yea buddy, Single lane backroads
Hairpins dropping into the American River Canyon
yea buddy, Single lane backroads
Iowa Hill Rd winds through the forest and pops out near Foresthill
600 Curves in 36 Miles. If you are anywhere near Mosquito Ridge, add it to the To Do List.
Mosquito Ridge has been closed the last few years due to the 2022 Mosquito Fire which burned on both sides of the road in the canyon, but it opened up a few days prior to our tour <score!> and we made tracks to ride it. From Foresthill, Mosquito Ridge drops into the El Dorado Canyon, across the Circle Bridge, and right back up the canyon wall headed for the French Meadows Reservoir. It's a famous road in local riding circles for its 600 curves in 36 miles.
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600 Curves in 36 Miles. If you are anywhere near Mosquito Ridge, add it to the To Do List.
Mosquito Ridge has been closed the last few years due to the 2022 Mosquito Fire which burned on both sides of the road in the canyon, but it opened up a few days prior to our tour <score!> and we made tracks to ride it. From Foresthill, Mosquito Ridge drops into the El Dorado Canyon, across the Circle Bridge, and right back up the canyon wall headed for the French Meadows Reservoir. It's a famous road in local riding circles for its 600 curves in 36 miles.
Mosquito Ridge Rd | California Motorcycle Roads | Pashnit.com
Best Northern California Motorcycle Rides - Ride Mosquito Ridge
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600 curves and 36 miles later, we finally reach French Meadows Reservoir at 5200 ft elevation deep in the Sierra Range.
French Meadows Reservoir is a man-made lake 36 miles northeast of Foresthill in the Middle Fork of the American River. The reservoir is 2.9 miles long, 0.6-mile wide, with 7.3 miles of shoreline.
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