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electric_blue68

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12. Interesting! May they have a great adventure!

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Mon Jun 8, 2026, 02:54 AM

23 hrs ago

Only once in a motorcycle but fabulous experience!
Trip mostly across tbe US by bus in '80 with several places that I stopped at. One - met my cousin in Denver (studying at Denver U).

He took me by motorcycle 1st to Red Rocks Amphitheater, then an old still existing mining town, 3rd up to Echo Lake about 10,200 ft where the mountain SW still have some snow at the top (? 2nd week of July), and the line of snow covered atmospherically blued mountains in the NW distance were the Continental Divide.
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Finally we went up even higher, stopped, and showed me a fir tree covered, roadless valley. Thousands & thousands of trees!
Then back down to Denver.
Extroidinary mini-adventure!

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