45 Days on a Gen3 Hayabusa - 2023 Pashnit Touring

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Enough of this walking nature hike stuff, back to the bikes, and onward!

26% grade is the steepest part up to the top of the Sonora Pass.

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We made it up to 9624 ft

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If you've following this thread for its duration, it looked like this a few months ago.

Same spot. And now that I look at it, same bike, Gary's GS, behind me in June also.

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Horse to the barn, the group took off and suddenly it was just me n Gary

It's all downhill from here

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I asked Gary if he'd ever been to Twin Lakes, it's just up the road. He said let's go check it out.

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Twin Lakes

This place is right outside Bridgeport

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Awesome day of riding, great way to wrap it up

Gary & I were last ones back to our lodging, Ken already had the KTM loaded up and was showing off his van.

Nice setup if you want to take the bike to the places you want to ride. He's off to Salt Lake City the next day.

I think all Ken does in his retirement is ride motorcycles. Hopefully, when I'm 78 like Ken, I'll be doing the same thing.

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This tour was the close of 20 years of running these motorcycle tours.

Hana, who wishes to remain mildly anonymous, but she's not on this forum so neener, neener- made this photo album of all the group shots I've taken over the the last 20 years and pulled them from the 50,000 shots I've uploaded to Flicker of these tours.

We all marveled at the many memories, many shared miles, and many, many tours we've all done together, there were over 140 group photos of tours I've led over the last 20 years.

The photo album came with a card.

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And I finally got my group shot.