Ride through the Carson Pass

[Savago]

Dear friends

About 2 weeks ago I did a ride to Lake Tahoe (CA) through the Carson Pass (CA-88) together with a friend to test ride my new to me ST1300.

We started the ride at 7AM and made back to the Valley at 8PM. The weather forecast was for thunderstorms around 2PM, so we started the 'climb' of the Carson Pass around 9:50AM starting from Jackson.

Thanks to the winter this year, the pass (altitude of 8500ft or close to 2500m) still had lots of snow in the side of the road. While up there, the weather was perfect, balmy 60-62F.

We arrived at Tahoe around 1PM (as we stopped quite a few times in the pass), had lunch and started heading back.

The weather forecast was pretty good at the afternoon, and as a result, we decided to return through the Carson Pass (as the Ebbetts Pass was still closed), therefore avoiding riding through Sacramento.

Overall, a perfect ride (450 miles), with great weather and awesome roads. My ST1300 did 45mpg on the way up and 47mpg on the way back. That allowed to refuel only once in Tahoe (as the ST1300 has a 7.7 gallons tank).

Here is a video of the ride:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLQ_QiefgTw

[msb]

Nice job on the video, thx for posting. 47 MPG... sometimes I wish 

[The emperor has no clothes]

There is some great riding in those neck of the woods. 

[hubcapsc]

Thanks for posting. I went near there on bidness last year and we drove around the lake,
I could tell in some of those places the traffic would be awful... it was OK when I
went, the season wasn't quite started yet... I could see all the boats staked out
in the lake in a few frames of your video...



The Cartwrights of Bonanza owned the whole upper part of the lake 



-Mike

[henry 008]

nice vid, thanks for posting!

[Jess from VA]

Thanks for posting.   

I tried swimming in Lake Tahoe once.  Even in summertime, your nuts actually shrink enough to be completely invisible.      Shortest swim in history.