Westgard Pass - By NechoBike

If you're going to do this route, I STRONGLY recommend you hang a north and head up to the Bristlecone Pine area. There is literally no other place on earth like it. The geology and the vegetation of the White Mountains is unique, and has provided paleo-ecologists huge datasets by which we understand climate change far better. The Bristlecone Pine is unique (endemic) to this area. Some of the oldest living organisms we know about on earth (at least on land).