{"id":4182,"date":"2013-07-18T13:04:42","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T19:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/?p=4182"},"modified":"2013-07-17T23:05:31","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T05:05:31","slug":"ofmc-heads-out-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/ofmc-heads-out-on-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"OFMC Heads Out on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4184\" style=\"width: 507px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/OFMC_ride.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4184\" src=\"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/OFMC_ride.jpg\" vspace=\"10\" alt=\"the OFMC on the road\" title=\"OFMC ride\" width=\"497\" height=\"330\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4184\" srcset=\"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/OFMC_ride.jpg 497w, http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/OFMC_ride-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4184\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>The OFMC on the road last year.<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p>OK, I know I intended to tell about the <a href=\"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/exploring-colorado-off-the-pavement\/\" target=\"_blank\" >road to Silt<\/a> here but that&#8217;s going to have to wait. It&#8217;s time for the annual OFMC trip.<\/p>\n<p>We leave on Friday. That&#8217;s tomorrow as this is published. There will be nine this year, at least at times. Everyone is leaving at different times, and in some cases different days.<\/p>\n<p>Most of us are heading up on Friday to Poudre Canyon, where we&#8217;ll be staying at a lodge in the canyon. The next day we&#8217;ll ride several passes to get to Dillon, where Johnathon will be joining us after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homesliceband.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">his band<\/a> plays a gig there.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll head up through Kremmling and over Gore Pass and ultimately to Meeker. Next day our destination will be Powder Horn ski area. I don&#8217;t even know where Powder Horn is.<\/p>\n<p>From there we head to Crested Butte, then to Pagosa Springs, and then into New Mexico to Eagle Nest. This will be our only night out of Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>After that it&#8217;s back into Colorado, to Canon City, and on Saturday some will head home while others stay out one last night at Cripple Creek.<\/p>\n<p>What we&#8217;re doing here is trying to vary things a bit. We&#8217;ve been riding all around Colorado for so many years that it&#8217;s hard to go some place new. If you leave Denver and ride a reasonable time that puts you in a fairly consistent arc of possible destinations. So let&#8217;s try this: Make the first day a really short one. Then your next day&#8217;s arc hits some very different places. Then pick out some place we&#8217;ve never stayed before and that&#8217;s that day&#8217;s destination.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, we&#8217;ve never stayed at Hot Sulphur Springs. We&#8217;re not staying there this time either, but some day we will. We&#8217;ll just make a point to. And <a href=\"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/exploring-colorado-off-the-pavement\/\" target=\"_blank\">as I said previously<\/a>, I&#8217;m adding Vega State Park to the list of future destinations. As for this year, we&#8217;ve never stayed in Pagosa before. We&#8217;ve never stayed in Canon City, we&#8217;ve never stayed in Dillon, and we&#8217;ve sure never stayed at Powder Horn.<\/p>\n<p>So it should be fun. I&#8217;ll tell you all about it.<\/p>\n<h3>Biker Quote for Today<\/h3>\n<p>People tell me I have a motorcycle problem. I tell them, I may have problems, but motorcycles are the solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I know I intended to tell about the road to Silt here but that&#8217;s going to have to wait. It&#8217;s time for the annual OFMC trip. We leave on Friday. That&#8217;s tomorrow as this is published. There will be nine this year, at least at times. Everyone is leaving at different times, and in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197,8],"tags":[537],"class_list":["post-4182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colorado-motorcycle-rides","category-ofmc","tag-colorado-destinations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4182"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4188,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4182\/revisions\/4188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}