Sunday was the monthly Tiger Troop Ride. This was a dual sport month, so I was looking forward to riding some unknown dirt roads. The loop was to start with a meet up at the Range Café for breakfast. You know riders, there is always food on the docket especially group rides like this one.
Once everyone was present, we headed up to 550, to San Ysidro, to 126 past Fenton Lake, over to Cuba. Traffic made it a longer trip than it needed to be. I still love the scenery in the Jemez, after all this time. I hadn’t been on the whole 126 for years, like close to 20 years. Dang. I’m getting old. What can I say NM does deliverer with the views.
Once we hit Cuba, it was on to more food at the El Bruno’s Restaurante y Cantina. We weren’t in a hurry and it’s a good thing. It took over an hour for the food to show up once we got around to ordering. It was great food though.
After that it was another scenic tour down 197 to Torreon, to San Luis on 279. That took us back to 550 just north of San Ysidro. Once back to the Y there, I split off from the group I wasn’t quite ready to head back to Santa Fe. So I headed to the Ponderosa off 290, from there the road turns into forest road 10. I rode that back to hwy 4 up near the Valle Grande. The road was in great shape. I was thinking it would be a great ride for the November Tiger Troop ride which is to be a dual sport ride. I’d love to ride 144 again, I don’t think it would make for a fun ride for some of the group. That’s just way too many miles and has a couple of sections that are complicated. I struggled with it last summer. So it puts it out of the group ride routes.
After that I was finally ready to hit the road toward home. What a shame that I had to ride the rest of hwy 4 to Los Alamos. I had a great full day of riding with some great sights.
