RedBird
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Yesterday I fired up the CB and went for a ride in the foothills of the Colorado Rockies. It was a warm but not stinking hot afternoon so I headed west out of Berthoud to Larimer County Rd 23 then south to CO 66 then west again to Lyons. I headed out of Lyons on CO 7 up the canyon and turned left onto CO 72 - the Peak to Peak Highway. The smoke from the wild fires was not bad as I went through the ups and downs and twists and turns to Nederland. Out of Nederland I headed to the very little town of Eudora. The paved road ends at Eudora so I turned the bike around and headed back north on the Peak to Peak highway to where left CO 7 and continued west on CO 7 to Estes Park. Then I headed back east on US 34 until the turn to Carter Lake and from there on to Berthoud and home.
A great 4 hour ride but the best part was when I headed north out of Nederland on the Peak to Peak and saw a momma Moose and her half grown calf up close. The just walked out of the trees and across the highway looking at me as they crossed and disappeared into the trees again. I was grabbing a hand full of front brake and pressing on the rear brake pedal to get stopped quite quickly. I must have been 50 feet or less from them at that point. I thought "this is great" and "sure don't want to hit a BIG Moose" at about the same time. This is the first time I have seen a Moose this far east of the Continental Divide. Over on the west side of Rocky Mtn. National Park, sure, and I knew they were east of the divide also, I just did not expect them to be almost to the plains. So, in addition to the deer, elk, sheep, etc. watch out for Moose.
A great 4 hour ride but the best part was when I headed north out of Nederland on the Peak to Peak and saw a momma Moose and her half grown calf up close. The just walked out of the trees and across the highway looking at me as they crossed and disappeared into the trees again. I was grabbing a hand full of front brake and pressing on the rear brake pedal to get stopped quite quickly. I must have been 50 feet or less from them at that point. I thought "this is great" and "sure don't want to hit a BIG Moose" at about the same time. This is the first time I have seen a Moose this far east of the Continental Divide. Over on the west side of Rocky Mtn. National Park, sure, and I knew they were east of the divide also, I just did not expect them to be almost to the plains. So, in addition to the deer, elk, sheep, etc. watch out for Moose.
