45 Days on a Gen3 Hayabusa - 2023 Pashnit Touring

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Great pics Tim. I love it up there when snow lines the road.

 

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Dropping a few thousand feet in a few miles, and the snow subsides

Highway 4 Ebbetts Pass is still a single lane mountain road in this section

 

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Our route takes us through this valley & popping out along the very edge of the California-Nevada border

 

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The snowmelt creates rivers of water across the road

 

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Scossa's Cow Camp, circa 1881 at the 6200 ft level

Dating to 1862, this white house had a smelter beside it although now all that remains of the smelter is the chimney. Ore was pulled from nearby mines, and then smelted, or burned in fires, to extract the ore through a process of heating and melting. Heating the ore drives off the other elements and leaves the base metal behind.

Next: Highway 89 Monitor Pass

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Alpine County Motorcycle Rides - Montor Pass

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See that building atop the peak dead ahead. I want to ride up there. Dirt road to the summit. Very bumpy/rocky ride.

 

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Reaching the summit on Highway 89 Monitor Pass, saw something I've never seen before. There was a small lake at the summit from snowmelt. Never seen that before & I've been coming up here for 25 years.

Highway 89 | Monitor Pass | California Motorcycle Roads | Pashnit

Alpine County Motorcycle Rides - Montor Pass

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View of Slinkard Valley from atop Monitor Pass

James Slinkard, who was the road supervisor of Douglas Co., Nevada from 1862 to 1865, built a road alongside Slinkards Creek into what's known as Slinkards Valley. A dirt road still flows up the valley and connects with Highway 395 as Mill Canyon Rd.

 

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The view up here never gets old. Have to come here with every bike & retake the same photo.

 

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Topaz Lake. Storm clouds ahead.

We decided to get some lunch in Walker and chance our luck.

Started to rain as we set out after our lunch stop. I left the rain suit at home.

You'd think I'd know better, the mountains create their own weather.

 

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A turn onto Highway 108 - Sonora Pass. That looks like rain ahead.

Highway 108 - Sonora Pass | California Motorcycle Roads | Pashnit

Ride Sonora Pass across the Sierra Nevada Mountain, California Motorcycle Ride

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Mountain twisties ahead. And it stopped raining.

 

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Highway 108 - Sonora Pass | California Motorcycle Roads | Pashnit

Ride Sonora Pass across the Sierra Nevada Mountain, California Motorcycle Ride

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Dry roads, awesome ride to the summit! What a view!

This valley is known as Leavitt Meadow.

 

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Better view of Leavitt Meadow

 

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Still climbing, passing through the 7000, 8000, then 9000 ft level on Sonora Pass