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what happened? ran out of time and space in Creel...and nervously anticipating the run down to Batopilas...next morning early start...sort of quiet nervousness but a beautiful smooth run down to Samariche...some of you would have read my mail from here 3 years ago about the horror and the splendour of this road to Batopilas...dropping nearly 2000metres in 140 kms...most of the drop is on the last 70 kms of unmade road from Samariche to Batopilas...slipping and sliding over the most unmade of unmade roads you could imagine...
Like a bat out of Pilas
Bill Shum2006-03-24 22:23:03
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what happened? ran out of time and space in Creel...and nervously anticipating the run down to Batopilas...next morning early start...sort of quiet nervousness but a beautiful smooth run down to Samariche...some of you would have read my mail from here 3 years ago about the horror and the splendour of this road to Batopilas...dropping nearly 2000metres in 140 kms...most of the drop is on the last 70 kms of unmade road from Samariche to Batopilas...slipping and sliding over the most unmade of unmade roads you could imagine...it was pretty scary on the bus but this was to be something else again...to put it into perspective, well, my perspective anyway...since I first cnsidered doing this trip and the inclusion of Copper Canyon on the itinerary I have suffered serios sleeping disorders and drop off nearly every night with visions of dropping the bike somewhere on this road and-or going over the edge...this really has been the nemesis of my whole journey...life even...so here we were at the turn off...the first bit of the dirt is a steep incline of gravel, rocks and exposed boulders...turning of the ABS...the red light on the dash lights up to remind me that everything will now lock up if-when I grab a handful and panic...certain death....the road is fairly straightforward with just a few suicidal corners , patches of bulldust, still very tentative...after about 10 kms I{ve almost drained the camelback...constantly reminding myself to relax...tension equals death...we start the main descent...almost indescribable.....the vista expands to mind-numbing proportions...its vertigo inducing views, kilometres across the canyons, kilometres to bottom almost vertically below....you can see the ribbon of road crisscrossing down into the depths...the extent of this pnorama takes your breath away....it is truly majestic...and
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