2024 Pashnit Touring on a Hayabusa
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Ha Terry, it's known as Sherman Pass.
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I meant a pass that connects all the way to 395. It could originate anywhere from the Huntington Lake area east of Shaver Lake or from inside Kings Canyon or Sequoia NPs. Sherman looks like sort of a circle ‘pass’ that reaches a high summit. I’ll have to give it a try but not in the middle of summer.
Terry, you ever ridden Kaiser Pass? It's a dead end road, single lane, 12% grade, and goaty, but only an hour from you.I meant a pass that connects all the way to 395. It could originate anywhere from the Huntington Lake area east of Shaver Lake or from inside Kings Canyon or Sequoia NPs. Sherman looks like sort of a circle ‘pass’ that reaches a high summit. I’ll have to give it a try but not in the middle of summer.
Kaiser Pass is narrow, bumpy, & single lane for the last 12 miles to the 9100 ft summit but it's paved all the way. It’s 22 miles long, running from Hwy 168 (near Huntington Lake) to Florence Lake. It dead ends at Florence Lake deep in the Sierra Range & was built in the 1920s for dam building.
I've never ridden it. Never had a reason to come up here, but it's not far from you.
It’s all snow covered now but when I’ve been up there I’ve seen the signs that indicate 2-3 more lakes deeper east into the wilderness but I’ve always figured they’d end up being dirt or worse so I never tried one. My lightest bike, the Kawasaki is best for mountain exploring. I rode it completely around Huntington Lake and I’m glad I did. There were several slow steep sharp corners and all of it is one lane. I’ll have to try the Kaiser since you said it’s paved. If you’ve never ridden it how do you know it’s paved?
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One of my ride buddies, Mike, is a huge goat trail fan, rides a v-strom, and has ridden Kaiser Pass up and back several times to Lake Florence at the 9100 ft level. He's constantly bugging me about it. You gotta ride this, he says, paved all the way but single lane mountain road. We have ridden the loop around Huntington Lake with a Pashnit Tour group several times. For several years (2015-2018), I based my tour group at the Huntington Lake Resort. I'm gonna build the Huntington Lake loop into my tour season next year for my new 2026 China Peak Tour and base out of Bass Lake at The Pines Resort, right outside Oakhurst.
The Mammoth Pool Loop is across the street (Beasore Rd) from our homebase at the Bass Lake/The Pines Resort.
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One of my ride buddies, Mike, is a huge goat trail fan, rides a v-strom, and has ridden Kaiser Pass up and back several times to Lake Florence at the 9100 ft level. He's constantly bugging me about it. You gotta ride this, he says, paved all the way but single lane mountain road. We have ridden the loop around Huntington Lake with a Pashnit Tour group several times. For several years (2015-2018), I based my tour group at the Huntington Lake Resort. I'm gonna build the Huntington Lake loop into my tour season next year for my new 2026 China Peak Tour and base out of Bass Lake at The Pines Resort, right outside Oakhurst.
The Mammoth Pool Loop is across the street (Beasore Rd) from our homebase at the Bass Lake/The Pines Resort.
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The one time I borrowed a Busa from Matt / @Lodi to lead the China Peak Tour of the Central Sierra Range
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Yeah Bass Lake is just a few miles away. When I first moved here I rode zig zag thru some of the roads east and south of North Fork and Bass Lake. Some very secluded areas out there. Don’t think I went as far as Mammoth Pools though.
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Several years ago, I arrived at the meet spot for the Northern California Pashnit Tour in Sausalito an hour early. With an hour to kill, and the Golden Gate Bridge just around the corner, I wandered that direction towards the ocean. Soon found myself at Fort Cronkhite, a former US Army post dating to the 1930s & active WWII through the Cold War into the 1970s when it was opened up to the public.
Tunnels for the military base through the mountain
Welcome to the SF Bay Area - all you see is fog, the Clearwater lights help a lot
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Several years ago, I arrived at the meet spot for the Northern California Pashnit Tour in Sausalito an hour early. With an hour to kill, and the Golden Gate Bridge just around the corner, I wandered that direction towards the ocean. Soon found myself at Fort Cronkhite, a former US Army post dating to the 1930s & active WWII through the Cold War into the 1970s when it was opened up to the public.
Tunnels for the military base through the mountain
Welcome to the SF Bay Area - all you see is fog, the Clearwater lights help a lot
The road ends at Rodeo Beach, a popular surfing site close to downtown San Francisco. On that date, there was a blanket of heavy wet fog, the sun was barely able to illuminate the dull close of night through the fog and I watched the sun come up a few feet from the crashing waves of the Pacific Ocean. That was divine. Still smarting from my late arrival at the Coast Range Tour in July (I’m never late), up at 3am and did the 2-hour ride to the ocean to the same exact spot at Rodeo Beach and walked out onto the beach. No fog, no surfers, not a soul around. Same ocean.
Pre-dawn on the ocean - surfers are already here
Somewhere over there is San Francisco
Pre-dawn on the ocean - surfers are already here
Somewhere over there is San Francisco
I was thinking, wouldn't it be cool to re-shoot this pic of the Golden Gate Bridge & San Francisco from 20 years ago - this shot was the first motorcycle tour I ever offered in 2004, 21 years ago - a lifetime ago.
I thought I was the only person out here, but nope, I wasn't the only one here for the sunrise over the Golden Gate Bridge. Pretty sure this was the same spot, 20 years on, but the four young ladies were in my spot.
I thought I was the only person out here, but nope, I wasn't the only one here for the sunrise over the Golden Gate Bridge. Pretty sure this was the same spot, 20 years on, but the four young ladies were in my spot.
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