Summer along the lower Colorado River is hot. Come July or August, 123 degrees in the shade is common around Lake Mohave. And that Lake Mohave country is as treacherous as it gets. You can be riding along and suddenly the ground will just open into a canyon or a cliff that takes you hours to get around. Then you look back and you aren’t 100 yards from where you started three miles before. But in the back of your mind, there’s always that cool blue water that keeps pulling you to get a dri


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