Mountain Pass Pics - Post Yours!

[Justin]

I've always had a thing for mountain passes, I just think they are cool, and usually very beautiful places. So post up your pass pics if you've got em

Here's some I pulled out of my riding pics from the last year, that I wanted to share.

Berthoud Pass - US 40 Colorado



Gore Pass - CO-134



Poncha Pass - US 285 Colorado



Cumberland Pass - some crap dirt road a sport bike had no business on Between Pitkin and Tincup Colorado. I think this may have played a part in the early demise of my fork seals



Cottonwood Pass - CO RD 306, West of Buena Vista



Independence Pass - CO 82



La Veta Pass - US 160 CO



Indy Pass again - this one is one of my faves, almost looks like an ad. I'm not a great photographer, this was just luck.  



More to come..

[Justin]

Some more passes

Wolf Creek Pass - US 160 CO



Coal Bank Pass - US 550 CO



Spring Creek Pass - CO 149 (Silver Thread Scenic Byway)



Red Mountain Pass - US 550 Colorado (Million Dollar Hwy)



Slumgullion - CO 149 (Silver Thread Scenic Byway)



Cumbres Pass - CO 17 between Antonito and Chama NM



La Manga Pass - CO 17 between Antonito and Chama NM

[Justin]

A few more to go

Emory Pass - NM 125 - which they ruined weeks before this ride with a shitty chip seal job   - note the piles of gravel in the road




UT 12 between Torrey and Boulder



Willow Creek Pass - CO 125



Cameron Pass - CO 14

[gradus]

It blows me away thinking about those 10-12k altitudes.  We go a little higher than 6k in the Appalachians.  

[scottzilla]

So Justin, I assume you haven't had a gulp of oxygenated air since you left NY, huh?

[expatbrit]

I think I have a few, somewhere -- Molas, Coal Bank, Red Mountain, etc. Oddly, I seem to have missed most of the NM ones.

Tried to stop to get Douglas pass on CO139 last week, but the wind at the top was fierce enough I was afraid that the bike was going to blow over on the kickstand. That's a low one, too, at, what? 8,000' or so.

[JonS]

Lizard Head Pass, Hwy 145- CO. About 10,200ft


Washington Pass, WA. N Cascade Hwy. About 5,477ft

[Rockin SV]

Sorry to thread jack, but Justin it looks like you put on some serious miles, do you mind if I ask how many miles you've put on that Busa?

[Justin]

Sorry to thread jack, but Justin it looks like you put on some serious miles, do you mind if I ask how many miles you've put on that Busa?

At about 39k now - registered oct, 2009 with 9k. So far no issues other than routine maint. and fork seals due to me abusing it

[Mr Sunshine]

Took this one 14a just East of Lovell, WY about 20 mins ago. 

[Justin]

Took this one 14a just East of Lovell, WY about 20 mins ago. 

Nice Going over the Bighorns?

[blakebird]

Been over all those passes....but I don't always stop for the pictures. I have pictures of La Manga, Cumbres, Gore, Cameron, etc - they're just not uploaded to my Photobucket.
IMO you're missing out by not hitting some of the good offroad ones too...

10,857 ft Wolf Creek Pass



12,095 ft Independence Pass



8,763 ft McClure Pass


11,307 ft Berthoud Pass




Headed for La Veta Pass (Spanish Peaks)


13,185 ft Mosquito Pass



10,842 ft Marshall Pass


12,015 Cumberland Pass


12,154 ft Tincup Pass


11,789 ft Ophir Pass



12,800 ft Engineer Pass


12,640 ft Cinammon Pass


13,114 ft Imogene Pass



12,200 ft Kingston Peak
(my XR628)

(taken from my KTM LC4e)


14,130 ft (parking lot) Mt. Evans


On the way....

...to 11,796 ft Fall River Pass and  10,758 ft Milner Pass (Trail Ridge Road)


11,939 ft Hagerman Pass

[Justin]

IMO you're missing out by not hitting some of the good offroad ones too...

Well, I did get Cumberland pass on the Busa - Think that is why I had to change the fork seals at 32k  

And yeah, one of these days I will have an offroad machine. I've taken the Jeep Grand Cherokee over some, but it's not the same.

[expatbrit]

View from Coal Bank, CO550



View from Red Mountain, CO550



Lizard Head Pass

[919]

I hit a bunch of passes in CO when I was there for a week and a half.  Only stopped to snap a picture of this one.

Hoosier Pass (you can read the sign.)

[Bad Dad]

South of Ouray CO. on our trip to Colorado last summer....great time

[Jonathan]

I was wondering, what is the highest pass in the Continental US.  Both paved and unpaved.

[Justin]

I was wondering, what is the highest pass in the Continental US.  Both paved and unpaved.

Highest unpaved pass is  Argentine Pass in Colorado at 13,205 feet - and I think Independence pass is the highest paved in CO as well as the lower 48 at 12,103 feet

The highest continuous paved road is Trail Ridge (RMNP) at 12,183 ft, and the highest paved road is Mt Evans road at 14,120 ft.

[Mr.Black]

You are all nuts! Says the guy with acrophobia.

[Mr Sunshine]

Nice Going over the Bighorns?

Yeah that the name of where that photo was taken.

In Cooke City now coming back from the national.