Duke goes to Taos!

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marcusorelius

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We are one of the last to leave Taos, as we only have 140 miles to go to pagosa springs ,co. (a bit hungover!)A very nice ride too! After a night in pagosa springs we head up to Montrose Co. Tuesday we go to the black canyon of the gunnison nat'l park!

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A park ranger was at one of the view points with just me & duke and we had a good talk

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A 2000 ft drop to these rocks in the river!

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The ranger asured me there was no gravel on the road down to the bottom ( a 16% grade for 5 miles)

So we went down to the river & had a snack of beef jerky

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After the park we headed to the 92hwy which goes around the canyon, And I have to say this turned out to be the best day of ride'n ever! The weather-perfect, scenery-beautifull, road-awesome curves just made fer the fjr!

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There was a view point along hwy 92 that rivaled the nat'l park!

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Week 2 pt 2 later!

 
Mark,

Thanks for that report. I've heard people describe Black Canyon, but haven't see pics posted as nice as yours! I'm gonna plan a trip. Looks like you hit the Fall Colors about right.

 
I wish I would have followed you home.

The way we went was way boring.

Looks like you and Duke had a good ride.

 
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