Sunday Ride–Dollarhide/ Ketchum/ Copper Basin/ Arco - 8/28/206

Loop ~ 435 miles

Riders – Chris , John

I put out a “call” that I was going to ride the Big Bike into Ketchum .

Chris joined me ( he’s a bad influence , never says “NO” ).

We met at the Emigrant Road * HWY20 intersection.

Couch Summit Road

Dollarhide Summit looking toward Ketchum

 

 

 

 

 

Burgers and beer at Grumpy's.

We had the Benchmark Atlas out looking at routes and decided we had
plenty of time for a bonus loop through Copper Basin !

Wildhorse Canyon

 

Being the weekend before Labor Day we had a reprieve from UTV’s and
ATV’s , only seeing a handful of cars .

 

Copper Basin , we didn’t have time to the loop or any side canyons .

There are several really nice houses along the river. Don’t appear to get much
use ,maybe they are on AIRBNB .

 

Antelope Pass was on my punch list for this year and I want to go back.

 

 

View toward Arco , even in the haze you could see the INEL that is in-between
Arco and Idaho Falls.

 

Copper Basin from the pass.

The atlas showed a road from Antelope Creek to HWY26 allowing you to
bypass Arco. We “found” it but thought it was a ranch access and ended
up riding all the way to HWY93.

They were chip sealing about 10 miles of highway into Arco which seemed
like it cost us an hour .

We were bucking headwinds and crosswinds along HWY26 through the
Crater of the Moons .

We had highway all the way home.  A  throttle lock would be nice
on long highway stretches. Probably the longest stretch of pavement
I ever have ridden .