Into the Moronosphere

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Road to Pang!  India 2014!    My Head Hurts

Up early to head out of Keylong.  First time on the trip I didn't spend 30 minutes trying to navigate us out of a city, Keylong, one road in and one road out.  Couple of shots from town and the surrounding area.  The thing most impressive is we are up hanging out at just over 10K the mountains around us are dwarfing the Bozo Brigade.  We headed north on a slow climb to 15.5k and enough water crossings to choke a horse and of course, two passes.  Overall good day with no drama and always a success when arriving in one piece.  Here we go!

View from our balcony looking north! 

Downtown Keylong.

 

Followed the valley north for about two hours before starting our first climb.

Couple thousand feet down with no guard rails, standard, considering there roads were built forever ago and their idea of maintenance is bulldozing rock slides out of the way.

I been hit by a bus, low sided on my way to a Yoga class, T-boned a clown car......150KM's of water crossings ain't got nothing on me EH'.

Nakeela pass coming in at a modest 15.5K complete with tingling in the hands and lips.

So......I'm reveling in our highest pass yet and look over to the right and see this bad boy.  This place just keeps going up and up.

Had lunch with these cats.  They just sat there talking to each other pointing at different parts of our gear, cameras.  I think they were nomadic goat herders, because there were camps set up everywhere along this portion of the route.  No I am not some Freak'n artiste trying to do some cool contrast shot.  Had camera on wrong setting.

Climbing the Gata Loop.   One of the ten famous roads on the planet.  I think there are something like 36KM of tight switch backs as we climb up back into the nose bleeder section.

Pass number two for the day, up over 16K now, feeling pretty good!

Finished off the day motoring through the high desert.  Reminded me of Fallon back in the day except we are up above 15k.  It was warm, around 70F, but dusty and gritty like you read about.  We have been joking that every ride of the day ends up behind big ass slow TATA's spitting thick diesel exhaust and kicking up so much dust we can only see about 10 feet in front of us.