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At a Glance
John Charles Fremont and Kit Carson would
no doubt have made an award–winning television documentary had
they found the Carson Pass route through the Sierra Nevada today
rather than during their arduous, middle-of-winter expedition on
1844. Modern motorcycling mountain men don't have to be quite so
heroic when they explore this track through great high-country
mountain and lake Scenery and down into the thick, foothill
forest east of the Sacramento Valley. Remoteness, which can be
elusive in California, is elevated up here in the Mokelumne
Wilderness, especially in the saddle between Carson Pass and
Silver Lake. Pavement is coarse-grained but effortlessly smooth,
apart from a little winter kill at the higher spots. Combine it
with wide-open, sweeping Twistiness and better-than-average
Engineering—particularly on the lots-o’-shoulder western
slope—and even luxo-tourers will be on this route like starving
frontiersmen on fresh game. Can you say high speed? The CHP STCs
probably can. Assuming they don't explore your pocket-book,
you’ll enjoy a ride with more Character than our explorers had
with their horses and mules. We’re sure J and the Kitman
would’ve happily exchanged their old-tech mounts for a train of
video camera-equipped Wings, Kings or LTs to record their show.
After all, as the song says, “You and me baby, ain’t nothin’ but
ridin’ mammals, so let’s do it like they do on the Discovery
Channel.”
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