{"id":809,"date":"2009-07-23T14:17:16","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T20:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/?p=809"},"modified":"2009-07-22T18:18:44","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T00:18:44","slug":"i-finally-make-it-to-kebler-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/i-finally-make-it-to-kebler-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"I Finally Make it to Kebler Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have to admit I was feeling a bit peeved with myself with my failure to have ever made it to Kebler Pass, especially with all these out-of-state riders coming through and doing that route. That shortcoming got rectified this past weekend, and I have to say, it was long overdue.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 10pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); color: rgb(102, 102, 102);\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" height=\"270\" width=\"360\" alt=\"Kebler Pass\" src=\"http:\/\/www.motorcyclecolorado.com\/images2\/KeblerPass1.jpg\" style=\"padding-bottom: 5px;\" \/><br \/>\n&nbsp; Kebler Pass is gorgeous<\/div>\n<p>Kebler Pass is the extremely well-maintained, hard-packed gravel road that run from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motorcyclecolorado.com\/crested_butte.htm\" target=\"_blank\" >Crested Butte<\/a> down to CO 133 over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motorcyclecolorado.com\/mcclure_pass.htm\" target=\"_blank\">McClure Pass<\/a> between Hotchkiss and Carbondale. This road may not be paved but even the biggest bagger can take this route with no problem whatsoever. That&#8217;s especially great because otherwise, when you go to Crested Butte, you have no choice but to go back the way you came in.<\/p>\n<p>An additional benefit to doing Kebler Pass is that you can take a short side-trip and hit Ohio Pass as well. Just a short distance downhill from the sign marking the Kebler summit, Gunnison County Road 730 heads off southwest to Gunnison. Ohio Pass is just a short distance away and then it&#8217;s a rough road heading on down, good primarily for a dual-sport bike. Don&#8217;t take your Road King on this one. Extremely scenic, however.<\/p>\n<p>So I want to thank Steve Smith, a rider from North Carolina who used this site to help plan his trip and then sent me <a href=\"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/17-passes-in-32-hours\/\" target=\"_blank\">his report<\/a>. I didn&#8217;t even know where Ohio Pass was until he described his ride. And now I don&#8217;t feel so bad that he has been to Kebler Pass and I haven&#8217;t, because now I have.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recent from National Motorcycle Examiner<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-378-Motorcycle-Examiner~y2009m7d21-Motorcycles-101-What-to-buy-as-a-first-bike\" target=\"_blank\">Motorcycles 101: What to buy as a first bike<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Biker Quote for Today<\/h3>\n<p>Enjoying life one ride at a time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to admit I was feeling a bit peeved with myself with my failure to have ever made it to Kebler Pass, especially with all these out-of-state riders coming through and doing that route. That shortcoming got rectified this past weekend, and I have to say, it was long overdue. &nbsp; Kebler Pass is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[228,4,9],"tags":[49,252],"class_list":["post-809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle-touring","category-routes-to-add-to-website","category-suggested-rides","tag-kebler-pass","tag-ohio-pass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809","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=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":814,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions\/814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}