Riding Into The May Snow - A Moving Medication in the Rocky Mountains

Three feet of snow in early May and we still point the bikes toward Rocky Mountain National Park. With my buddy Jake, we leave Estes Park and climb Bear Lake Road toward 9,500 feet, watching temperatures, scanning shadowed corners, and keeping one rule front and center: no ego. If it gets sketchy, we turn back. That’s real motorcycle safety, not bravado. Past the park gates, the fear evaporates. The Park Service has the road clear, and Colorado delivers that rare contrast of dry black ...