Glacier National Park 2001 – Day 2: The Spiral Highway & Lolo Pass

May 30 Clarkston, WA to Missoula, MT 238 miles Vince, Trev & Scott Before hitting the open road, we locate the legendary Spiral Highway on the north edge of Clarkston and Lewiston. This road is spoken of in reverent whispers by many Northwest motorcyclists as something that must be experienced.  After coming around a blind …

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Glacier National Park 2001 – Day 3: In Search of the Going to the Sun Road

May 31 Day trip from Missoula to Glacier National Park 435 miles After a hearty Montana breakfast with lots of eggs, bacon and strong coffee, we head North on Highway 93 to Glacier National Park. Along the way we enter the town of Pablo where Paul discovers the Pablo Bar and we stop for a …

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Glacier National Park 2001 – Day 4: Dodging Bees and Chasing Pork Chop Through Lolo Pass

June 1 Missoula, MT to Clarkston, ID 228 miles We emerge from the motel in the morning, ready for breakfast, when Pork Chop notices something amiss on the Barley so Pablo whips out the tool kit and does some repair work in the motel parking lot before we take off. We owners of fine Japanese …

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Glacier National Park 2001 – Day 5: Let’s Show These Tucson Boys What Adventure Touring Is

June 2 Clarkston, WA to Burien, WA 401 miles After driving through clouds of bugs & bees along the Clearwater River as we descended from Lolo Pass and then getting blasted by a fierce dust storm coming into Lewiston at the end of day 4, my ST1100 is really disgusting. Instead of smooth, glossy black …

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