Or even third or fourth contact with the enemy, India traffic or road conditions. If you do the math, we cannot make it back to Dehli in the next week or so. Our plan now is to set up base camp in Leh and ride out from there, returning for a day and then going out again. We are shipping the bikes back to Dehli at a whopping 90 bucks 'Murrican and then flying back to Dehli for our trip back home. Let's get to it!
Find us here.........Where is the Bozo Brigade?
Out of Pang for a leisurely 180km or so jaunt to Leh. Right out of Pang we had 40km of good tarmac on a plain at over 16, 000 feet. Kind of like driving through Wyoming on I-80, but in the Moronosphere. Then the climb to Tanglang La, gnarly. Peaked at 17.5k and the climb was on a 10 foot wide road with ten foot snow and ice walls on opposite sides of us. We ran into a small traffic jam and had to dig a path to widen the road.........small delay........some dudes who left about two hours after us were stuck on the pass 10 hours with one of their Australian dudes getting pretty bad AMS and having to ride in the support truck while a mechanic road his bike to Leh........weak sauce!
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Down the back side with ease and any easy stroll into Thicksey. We stopped at a ginormous Gompa (monastery) for a little photo shoot and I talked a little sports with a few Monks. As we cross into Ladakh, the military presence is crazy. The road went through several Army bases the size of Camp Pendelton, I'm talking tens of kilometers long.
15KM to Leh and we arrive in one piece at the Yak Tail Hotel......oldest joint in Leh!
Find us here.........Where is the Bozo Brigade?
Out of Pang for a leisurely 180km or so jaunt to Leh. Right out of Pang we had 40km of good tarmac on a plain at over 16, 000 feet. Kind of like driving through Wyoming on I-80, but in the Moronosphere. Then the climb to Tanglang La, gnarly. Peaked at 17.5k and the climb was on a 10 foot wide road with ten foot snow and ice walls on opposite sides of us. We ran into a small traffic jam and had to dig a path to widen the road.........small delay........some dudes who left about two hours after us were stuck on the pass 10 hours with one of their Australian dudes getting pretty bad AMS and having to ride in the support truck while a mechanic road his bike to Leh........weak sauce!
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| Look back at climb up Tanglang La........massively long steep straight away cutting up the valley on either side of the mountain! |
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| The altitude and ZERO suspension on my Royal Kidney Shaker is crushing my program. Note the small snow capped mole hill in the background laughing at our 17.5k speed bump. I'm about fed up, I'm climbing Everest so I can finally look down on things! |
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| W after going five rounds UFC style with a 50 pound bag of flour. This part of the ride was a dust bowl. |
Down the back side with ease and any easy stroll into Thicksey. We stopped at a ginormous Gompa (monastery) for a little photo shoot and I talked a little sports with a few Monks. As we cross into Ladakh, the military presence is crazy. The road went through several Army bases the size of Camp Pendelton, I'm talking tens of kilometers long.
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| Perspective doesn't do this place justice, it is huge and towering out of a mountain. |
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| Just inside the gate looking up to one of the main temples. |
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| After this dude was done praying, he came over and asked if I was "Murrican. He asked a lot of questions about sports and was a big baseball fan. We rapped about Cricket and the World Cup. |
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| Good shot of the prayer wheels. Gotta spin them walking "up the stairs" and they must spin clockwise or you'll be in the hurt locker. |
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| Good feel for how high I was. Not even on the top floor and only half way up. Even though we are now in the "high desert" at 11k, the valley was very green with farmlands and people actually have grass on their property. |
15KM to Leh and we arrive in one piece at the Yak Tail Hotel......oldest joint in Leh!
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