The pass is the culmination of a ride of two days to get there. The ride took the bikes through what is described at the countries wildest and most remote areas.
The road of 90 miles follows a river Lochso, its self a major river but one that joins the Snake River and this joins rhe Columbia River.
There are almost no phones, stores, or people.
Its is a very wild, remote and beautiful area.
10,000,000 acres of vigiln, wild, natural forest and home to wolves, bears, deer, Elk, Moose, mountain loins and Cougar.
The great advantage of the river is the gradual rise the road takes over this distance, great for the bikers to gather height slowly and enabled the riders to cover a lot of ground and climb. The road does have a sting in its tail though. The last 6 miles are a hard, severe climb to the top. When we did this the snow and wind joined the party and made the ride very difficult.
At the summit you would think the two intrepid cyclists would be tired, wet and cold, well of course they were but were they despondent? Well no!
And Alvon did what he does so well......
Have a good day and think of us with another climb, 6,200 feet this time.
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