Well, they renamed it from Mt. Evan to Mt. Blue Sky. (Change is on Google Maps). Apparently there is another Mt. Evan farther south that is supposed to be the actual Mt. Evan from the git-go.
I got to make the summit a few years back.
I waited a few years before I made the trip up on the bike. The road had been closed for years prior.
Finally opened and got to make it to the top. I had been under the assumption that the entire road was redone.
That was not the case. There were long stretches that were just like being in a rodeo with frost heaved roads.
But there was a stretch, about 200 yards long of perfect, wide, well marked pavement. Then it turned to crap again for a while.
And the mountain goat herds. We had some issues. They are not road goats. They begged to differ.
There is a long story on that trip, with a daughter blowing up her car north of Omaha on the way to the airport to fly out to Denver, I was in Idaho Springs mid-week at the time, torrential rains, a really late start to get the ride in for the summit, tornadic winds in Denver out by the airport, (my wife was flying in for the weekend), and the hail storm from hell when we were in downtown Denver. Had some other weird stuff happen too.
Ultimately we survived.
Anyway, got a picture of me at the summit when it was still Mt. Evans
