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The following is Wende Cragg's copy of the Seventh Annual Crested Butte to Aspen Pearl Pass Klunker Tour registration form mailed out to her. This year,1982, features an option "to hell with Murdoch's bean sprout stew, and join the members of the…

Telluride Sports hosts the first annual Ptarmigan Lake Cruiser party and this is its application form sent to Wende Cragg. The application itself goes in depth of each ascent and descent scheduled for two days in elevations mostly 13000'+.

These are images of the 6th annual Pearl Pass Tour applications and envelop received by Wende Cragg.

The Grubstake was a bar in downtown Crested Butte, CO where mountain bikers gathered and used as a passing for Pearl Pass Klunker Tour.

Party in progress out in front of the famed Hotel Jerome, terminus of the Fourth Annual Crested Butte to Aspen [(via) Pearl Pass] Klunker Tour, Aspen, Colorado, September 1979

Howie Hammerman poses with his modified Colson at Pearl Pass’s false summit, 1979 Pearl Tour.

Matt Hebbard poses with his modified Colson at Pearl Pass’s false summit, 1979 Pearl Tour

Chris McManus poses with Joe Breeze’s 1937 Schwinn Excelsior X. Stripped of extraneous metal such as fenders, chainguard, racks and baskets, top tube “tank,” and kickstand, the bike weighed in at 48 pounds. Klunkers like this were king of the…

Charlie Kelly and Chris McManus, with his 1937 Excelsior ride, pose at Pearl Pass’s false summit. Same fork reinforcement technique used on the Schwinn, and Chris McManus not reprimanding his sock can be seen. 1979 Pearl Tour

Charlie Kelly at Cumberland Basin camp, Fifth Annual Crested Butte to Aspen [(via) Pearl Pass] Klunker Tour, seen wearing Velo Club Tamalpais wool jersey.