Hey, here’s an alert to a cool new moto blog from good buddies Val and J. It’s focused on an area that is arguably one of the best riding locales in the US, and that’s the northern Sierra Nevada mountains. The site is appropriately titled Sierra Mountain Passes and it’s impressive. My advice is pay it a visit and add it to your favorites list (it’s now on mine).
Sierra Mountain Passes grabbed my attention for a couple of reasons. One is that I did an article for Motorcycle Classics magazine on the area a few years ago (Five Sierra Nevada Passes), the other is that J and I will be hunting deer in Idaho later this year. That’s going to be fun.
Thanks for the shout-out, Joe.
We’ve been working on the project for quite some time and we were finally ready to go public with it just this week. We rode all 22 paved passes in the Sierra in a few months last year. Most of them several times. It’s been fun.
And I’m really looking forward to Idaho this fall.
-J.
As am I, my friend.
I rode from Mammoth up 395 and over Tioga Pass and down into Yosemite Valley on bicycle, but not yet on a motorcycle. Sounds like a good maiden voyage for my RX4 when it becomes available.
That’s a hell of a bicycle ride, Chris.
Tioga Pass took 2 days on the bicycle. I camped overnight and finished the ride the next day. While camping I found a small stream and took a much needed bath. During my bath I heard some rustling in the bushes. I thought it was a bear, but it turned out to be some kind of park ranger. He informed me the stream I was bathing in was the drinking water for the near by town of Lee Vining and that I better move on. I only drink bottled water now.
I pass through Lee Vining from time to time. That’s good to know.