Today I wanted to get out early and head towards the town of Mocoa and stop at the Hostal de la Montana, ecotourism to meet up with Anica, my friend I meet more than 6 months ago in the US. I zipped down to meet her and we rode to Macoa for coffee.
We found a nice little coffee shop and chatted a bit to catch up and then we started to head over the trampoline of death to the city of Pasto.
I think they call it that because there were a number of deaths on the road there's a lot of cliff type areas and the guardrails are sometimes they are sometimes they're not. And from all the reports I've read online just the very top is dirt road well those are false claims if you ask me because we spent about 4 hours on a muddy dirty rocky road It certainly wasn't paved and we were standing on our pegs most of the time It was raining and off and on but on the way up was raining pretty hard and there was mud coming down everywhere.
The first stream crossing from the East was really the hardest and the deepest and it really wasn't that bad in my opinion we got there we got to this big crossing and there was another scooter there with I think two people on it or a small motorcycle. They were surveying the situation and trying to figure out how to go across Annika was first on the scene and she stopped and was looking and I pulled up did a quick assessment and just started blasting through the water to the other side and Annika followed me shortly thereafter and we almost gave each other a high five after we were on the other side and then kept on going.
There must have been about five crossings with the majority of them being concrete with water flowing over the concrete so those were not really crossings in my mind but certainly we had to go through water the last one was was not very difficult at all there was mud there were ruts they were guardrails missing but overall it was a fairly simple straightforward ride It did get very cold at the top I'm not sure what the altitude was but it was quite cold and cold all the way down to Pasto. It was also quite late when we got there and we spent the last probably 45 minutes or an hour in the dark which neither of us really wanted to do.
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