Black Bear Pass, on the Trans America Trail 

Great video w/ outstanding scenery! Like your narrative style. No drama, no annoying background music or excessive verbiage. Straight up descriptions. Thanks for "taking me along" on this trip! Be safe. Looking forward to the next one.

Wow, I gotta say, this was one of the best ADV ride videos I have watched - my palms were literally sweating at some points. Heard and read alot about Black Bear. I don't think I would ever attempt it (even on a smaller Dual Sport). You guys rode it amazingly well. Really great stuff. Bravo, gentlemen.

OMG! My BP is up and I'm fully puckered while watching this and I've been riding over 40 years. Thanks for shooting this video, now I won't feel that I need to do Black Bear Pass on my loaded Africa Twin!

The house was the first hydro electric plant in North America. Also that’s called Bridal Veil Falls.

You can see the phone drop out at 8:23 and you can see it on the ground in the bottom right at 8:26. Great video by the way, looks like a ton of fun!

Have never ridden an offroad bike but having just acquired a R1250GS, it's begging me to go. Somebody STOP ME!!!

That was intense! You can tell by the way I was leaning in my chair as you were going through the switchbacks! And the drop over the edge on some of those shots - hoo boy!

Just wow. Thank you!

looks so fun! a challenging ride makes the best memories

mind-blowing and those riding skills were sharp AF too

Stunning ride. Appreciate the commentary. It helped to understand what was going on.

Great footage! Thanks for sharing

Wow! Great video! This looks like a lot of fun... once you're done and reflecting on how crazy it was. Amazing views.

I love watching y’all ride this stuff! Thanks for the videos!

What an awesome ride. Hoping to get down that way this next season.

What a great video Billy! i remember this day in Colorado, its very steep pass with a lot of attention need from you as a rider+ experience in rocky terrines. You are absolutely right in your recommendation about this pass. You and Jack are great riders!!

You guys are great riders! Y’all made it look easy! I have watched a lot of riders on RU-vid really struggle on black bear pass!

Beautiful landscape. Great video! Gnarly pass!!

Both you guys have got some skills, been leaning your bike into the hill from my seat at home 🙈👍

You guys are awesome! Thanks for making this video!

What a ride! Sometimes I felt like riding myself. Well done, nice cool talk also. The long way down could easily end in a short cut to death, in that super landscape!

Great inspiring video. Thanks for having the courage.

Awesome video, great commentary!

Awesome great video loved it

Absolutely fantastic track and country side lol us the fact that you are having fun and learning and experiencing some of the best ways to enjoy life is just awesome. I can’t get enough of riding my bike around New Zealand and seeing new places!

I loved this video! Thanks for sharing.

One hell of a great adventure ride you just took us on! Thank you

Wow that looks like a really great time. Love the intro part 👍

This is the bike for that kind of stuff. Breathtaking views.

Thanks for taking us along on your adventure!

Thanks for the reminder why I need to go back there!

Excellent Video!! I grew up in those mountains riding with my big brother there is still a treat!. You are correct the riding isn't super technical but even a small mistake "such as poor choice of motorcycle or bravado" can be catastrophic "the mountains do not suffer fools :) " Glad you get to enjoy rides like this with your son. Safe travels

Thanks so much for sharing your adventure with us. From Australia

Nice video! I love having a volume so much rambling.

une vidéo splendide. Des paysages exceptionnels. Merci. Continuez. Bravo

Great video. Best I’ve seen yet of Black Bear Pass! A+!!!

best quality video of its type that I've seen. Content, sound, steady, well done.

Love it!!

Great video, great riding and great commentary. I've ridden in that area a fair amount the past few years, but haven't done Black Bear yet (my 350 isn't street legal, so kind of a PIA). Seen many videos of this pass and love how you guys just blew threw it even in the not-so-ideal conditions. Thanks for posting this!

Great video !

Good job guys. I agree, one of the better documented videos of it on a motorcycle. A buddy and I rode it last year.

Awesome video! Thanks for sharing!

One of the best Moto vids of black bear pass I’ve seen. Great job and we’ll done.

Thanks for the ride-a- long ... nicely done!

I hate ridding in the rain, makes stuff slippery! The day we rode BBP there was a guy on a BMW, dont know the size/model but I dont think they make small bikes, he made it ok, slow but.......He said that he had no experience on trails like this and at times it showed but he got to the bottom. Enjoyed your video and I'm a bit jealous of your ridding cross country with your son, that would be a blast. thanks

Great videos thanks

Great video, thanks for sharing, I did cinnamon and engineer pass in September of last year on my 690, I hope to do bear pass this year, and I totally agree this passes are more of a dual sport territory, and ideally with no luggage, Cheers

Done all those trail around that area most of my life, it’s definitely where my hearts at

I agree, this is one the best videos. Great camera perspective.

Wow great video. I plan on riding the black bear pass this year.

Beautiful

Thanks for video. I rode pass years ago in spring before it was officially open, big snow cuts. From your video it looks like the road is rougher and more eroded than when I was there. Good video.

That was some the most suspenseful content. I was on the edge of my seat for ya. I can relate as far as the drop offs. Kinda anyways. None that long. Great video.

Great videos guys. I really enjoy them. Been up and down that pass many times. When riding the CO 500, My buddy and I always have an engine-off race from the top to the bottom down into Telluride.

Hello from Ouray! Thank you for sharing your ride!

Great video. Excellent commentary

Great video and commentary. The views on clear days are spectacular. I have done Black Bear many times on 250's and 400's, plus Jeeps and even a (modified) Suburban. The worst trip was when I ignored the "road closed" signs and the switch backs on the West side were washed out and we had to ride two 400's UP the Steps. Not a fun day, but still an adventure!

Excellent commentary

Realy beautiful 👌🏻

Awesome!

Been down with covid, really miss being outdoors and on my bike. Living vicariously through your adventure. All your videos have been great, partial to the rainbow trail one.

Doing that in the rain. A bit sketchy. Glad you made it. Great riding. Great video!

Some of those drop offs make me nervous. That view is AWESOME and I can only imagine how much fun you’re having

Me and a few buddies are heading there the last week of July this year. Very excited!

I keep coming back to your videos. I can't wait to try the TAT someday on my trusty, bulky, KLR (maaaaybe not the steps!). Thanks so much for sharing. Wishing you and your son well.

I’ve been wanting to do this my whole life and just can’t get anyone interested in it, I admire you guys for doing it

Great video

Masterful!!

yall are bonkers love it

thanks Boy's...for sharing Your 'Experience' at Black Bear Pass..on 'BIKES'!...But My Riding 'SKILLS' Are Not EVEN 'CLOSE' to your Ability! Glad yah Guys made IT SAFELY! Cheers From Canada!

Such beautiful country.... the scenery is very different along this trail. Made the trek in 2015, driving my FJ Cruiser. Breathtaking for sure!!! Glad I did it, and made it safely down to Telluride.

Great video Billy! I too am a 450L/RL rider and planning on riding the Alpine Loop in Colorado one day.

Excellent video. Great editing and narrative not to mention some very skillful riding!

Really enjoying this journey. Excellent videos. Sorry to hear about the phone. I had noticed on the prior Rainbow Trail video that the Ram Xmount for the phone oriented sideways (the phone was not in it) and thought to myself, "I hope he turns that mount up to the vertical position before he puts the phone back in it, because the phone will bounce out (as mine did) in the rough stuff with the mount oriented sideways. " Those mounts work better when oriented upright, but super rough riding may still drop the phone. Have since moved on to a mount that clamps the phone in place. Keep the videos coming!

If memory serves, the house used to be the pump house getting electrical power off the waterfall and powering the town. There used to be a cable system that ran up to the house that was initially used for supplies and possibly people, but its since broken loose and fallen within the past 15 years. You can still see some of the cable at the base of the falls, where most of the Subaru owners and hikers gather near the end of black bear. I've been wheeling in that area since I was in a car seat with my parents, so a lot of these views have become almost a second home to me. its refreshing to see someone's reaction who has never seen it before, it breathes new life in what might have started to become boring. I havent heard you mention yet which map for the TAT you guys are using. Your extreme single track route is one id likely want to replicate if I could ever get the time. I have faith in my skills and I trust my XR650L to get me wherever I point it, I just need the time and a safety buddy to go along!

Gorgeous footage. There is definitely a pucker factor here!

Thanks Billy, that was fun.

Great video. Good job editing keeping it simple almost like Im there with you. I watch a lot of these style videos and very seldom subscribe but you got me. Keep up the good work and thanks for what you do bringing great content.

Amazing

Wow that was amazing. I think I am a pretty skilled rider but I do have this thingy with heights and I was getting on the edge of my seat just watching the video. Slippery rocks, loose boulders and 1,000+ drops pretty wild. Glad I can appreciate the views you captured, don't think I could do it in person.

I can't wait! Summer 2024 for me.

Awersome ride guys

Black Bear definitely has a series of beautiful views! But, the consequence of riding and looking at the scenery might not be too good! Great video! Best one I’ve seen of this pass. Thanks. Be safe out there!

Now, this is my type of fun!

With rainy conditions - you guys are amazing riders! I have an Africa Twin and would never ever do this on that bike - maybe I’d walk it down the mountain.

Not sure how I found your channel but I’m happy I did. 👍

You lost your phone when you hit the big ditch at 8:23… haha! Great videos. Thanks so much for sharing!

This is an amazing video. Great job - riding, filming, narration, editing - excellent work! I was just in Colorado and did many of the passes in this area. The only one harder than Black Bear may be Poughkeepsie Gulch coming down from Hurricane and California passes. I don’t advise it on any bike. Grateful that me and my 701 LR survived intact!

Excellent video and nice riding down the steps. It captures BB better than any other I've ever seen. I did BB and Imogene on my Hypermotard and I was very scared the whole time. I crashed hard on some of those ledges above the steps, but not on the steps.

I haven't seen all of them but your vid of Black Bear is the best I've seen. Well done. I've got the bike for it (WR) but I'm to old and slow now!

I've been down it at least a dozen times, it isn't hard at all. I even road it on my KTM950SE without any issues what so ever. I even saw a guy do it on a GS1200! There are a lot more technical rides in Taylor park. The ride from Telluride back to Ouray is amazing, so much fun. Great video, tnx.

Silverton is stunning. There are lots of trails around there that have drops that are several hundred feet. The reality is it doesn’t really matter arter that. There all deadly if you make a mistake. As long as your patient, take your time, and use some common sense you’ll be just fine. It’s hard to understand how stunning the scenery is until you experience it. Great video!

Takes me back to my youth in the 70's when I rode a lot of the passes on a Honda SL 125 with reduced jets and a 62 rear sprocket. Got caught on a pass in the Sangre de Cristos and in a heavy down pour ended up sliding on my butt down part of it. Many of those pass roads seem tore up compared to then. No way I would attempt some of them now unless I was on a 450 perhaps. That, and I'm closing in on 70 pretty fast. Thanks for letting me live through your ride.

Man!… I really enjoyed this video. As a former motocross racer for many many years and former Enduro rider. I so much enjoyed this! I found myself leaning physically do the uphill side of the trail no matter which side of the switch back you were on. Haha. I would’ve gone slower than you guys did and I would’ve had a Yamaha DT 200 with the forks that are stiffer than stock

beautiful part of the world

Smuggler-Union hydroelectric power plant is the house by the falls below Black Bear pass. I’ve seen it on a hundred videos but never thought to find out about it. So after you said that you had no idea what the story was I decided to look it up. Enjoyed watching your ride.

Beauty of a ride. I can appreciate how the camera makes the trail look easier. But I guarantee the r1250 can do that trail.

Great video. Scared the hell out of me, and I’m laying in bed haha.

Absolutely beautiful but wow hang on

Great video series. I think a stand alone video with an in depth dive on route selection and navigation would be really helpful. That has been the toughest part of the trail to research for me. I'm planning on riding the trail in the near future. I want to pick the most difficult path and camp most of the way. This information seems to be far less available than what I'm used to with thru hikes.