Vespas at 14,000 feet - an adventure
Don't miss the travelogue recently posted by David Westman about his group's trip up to the top of Mt. Evans in Colorado. It doesn't need an intro, just start reading:
When you live in Colorado, there’s always an adventure awaiting you around every corner. White water rapids call to you like sirens, beckoning you to raft down their rushing torrents. Snow-laden mountains invite you to swoosh down their slopes. And fifty-four 14,000-foot peaks taunt you to reach their summits. In Colorado, we call them “fourteeners.”
Every day as I scoot west towards work, I gaze upon Mt. Evans silhouetting the Denver skyline. It’s snow-capped 14,264-foot peak rises above the city into the clouds. The Mt. Evans Scenic Byway, completed in 1927, snakes its way around the peak, forming the highest paved road in America. A paved road all the way to the top of a fourteener? If you build it, they will drive. And if it’s tempting, I will scoot.
It seems I’m not the only scooterist in Denver who likes to give in to temptation. When I put out word to the SQREAM Scooter Club (Scooter Queers Riding Everywhere And More) that I wanted to make an attempt on the Mt. Evan Summit, five other kindred souls signed on for the mountain expedition. We had Kim on her Vespa GT 200, Vicki on her Aprilia Mojito 150, John and Freda on “his and hers” Vespa GTS 250s and Kathy on her white and polka dot Vespa GT200. I rounded out the team riding my glow-in-the-dark flaming green Vespa GTS 250, the “Atomic Scooter.”
continued on the SQREAM web site...
