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Originally posted by STEPPENWOLF
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Half a dozen of us would take our trail bikes up to Mount Evans the weekend after Halloween, and try to ride to the top. The gates you saw at the start of the video were always closed, so we would ride through the trees to get around them. One upside was that you didn't have to worry about on coming traffic. There wern't many snow mobiles in those days, and they didn't get to far up the hill if the snow was sparse at the bottom. Up higher, the snow would drift across the road, and there would be a small path on the outside edge where the snow blew off, that we could ride, or deep drifts that were impassable. We made it to the top twice in five years.
The last time we tried it, we were almost at the top, when Johnny P hit a patch of ice, went down, and busted his hip. This was before cell phones, so I, having hit the same ice, gone down and gashed my head, decided that I should go back and flag someone on the highway and get some help from Idaho Springs. What a circus that turned into.
It was like the volunteer fire department, the volunteer Sheriffs deputies, the volunteer mountain rescue team, and a whole bunch of volunteer arm and flashlight wavers didn't have much better to do on a Sunday afternoon, and were just waiting for something to justify their having all that stuff ready.
I rode a paramedic back up to the "crash" site, and he stabilized Johnny, and tried to figure out how to get him down.
They finally called the Flight for Life helicopter and found a break in the wind and clouds, and got Johnny off the hill.
That was the last time we tried that.
Good times, some times. And cold has sucked ever since.
CZ
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