Charlie

This was definitely one of my most memorable legs. Right as we left Maupin, we headed up and out of the canyon on some crazy hairpin switchbacks. I remember going through one of the first ones, looking in my mirror, and seeing Mike blow off the road in a cloud of dust. He managed to pull it off like a pro and get the bike back on the road- no falling or stalling, just some dust and shaky nerves. Anyhow, Mike was quick to shake it off and we made our way to Shanko. From this little ghost town tourist stop we headed towards Antelope (population 37). This was my favorite stretch of road. Not another vehicle anywhere in sight (which became the norm from here on out) we had the road to ourselves.

This stretch had us up on the high desert and dropping down and back up canyons. There was a section of road descending into Antelope that had PERFECT banked hairpin turns- it was unreal. I'm so thankful we all had these little maneuverable bikes that we could take full advantage of.

From Antelope, we hit Fossil and went through the amazing John Day Fossil Beds. From there we arrived at Spray to finally get off the bikes and fuel up.