Colorado Trip Reports

Front diff?
or just a rear locker?

 

I fixed that for you

 

Front diff. I'd like a rear locker but lsd has been good so far.
I think my center locker is not fully engaging though.

 

But it still a prerunner and vin tag says it is too

 

*sleeper

 

Got out with @Star-Lord to Greer Road over the weekend. Nice area to explore. Pretty sure we covered it all.

 

man I need to get out in the mtns....

 

Ran Wheeler lake, Breakneck pass and Brown's pass on Saturday. Didn't make it to the top huge drift at the base of bowling ball hill.

 

Heading out to Colorado to get out of the heat of Texas this weekend solo , can anyone point me to some nice places in the mountains that will be nice and cool or cold weather ??

 

If your looking to offroad make sure the White stuff is gone here.

http://bushducks.com/tripreps/passopen.htm

 

I'm gonna be alone so I'm looking for some easy places to go this time .

 

I would aim for the Alpine Loop- either Lake City, Silverton, Ouray but be prepared for mass amount of folks out too (4th of July weekend).

 

Stay away from Mineral Creek (Ouray to Engineer Pass) they had an avalanche this winter and whereas they say it's open it is even more sketchy then previously in that section.

Maybe one of the guys living out there will add a first hand account to this.

 

Closed, had a slide a couple weeks ago. I ran the whole loop last week, have to start and return to silverton or lake city.

 

You might want to shoot Bush Ducks an update because they have this:

 

That's accurate, Road closed signs at both ends of mineral creek road. So the Ouray side of Engineer pass trail is closed and well marked to not take that road.

 

So then the question is, for those with built enough rigs to do it, can you get to Poughkeepsie from lower or upper Mineral and use it to bypass the slide? And the other alternative to going out through Silverton is taking California/Hurricane/Corkscrew out from Animas. But that wouldn't be a faster way to get to Ouray, just more scenic.

 

Hello fellas,
I'm planning to take a trip to SW Colorado to Ouray, Telluride, lake city, in October. Never done anything like that before, but how is the camping? Is it primitive? Or do you need a permit or pay something? My understanding was it was all public land. Everything in Texas is private, so there really isn't any off the grip camping here. Also will there be any snow at that time? Maybe only on the top of mountains? Thanks in advance for any help. Sorry if this has already been discussed here.

 

in October I would expect to see snow...I've been caught in a 2ft storm down there in September

a lot of the prime trails might be closed at that time...

keep an eye on bushducks, http://bushducks.com/tripreps/passopen.htm

 

So Oct is basically winter there and most camping sites close by the 15th, passes and trails close as soon as snow doesn't melt off.

Push it up to Sept and get Fall colors in with Snow, etc.



Opps forgot pic