Any Members in Arkansas?

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Made it back from CO at 3:30 AM Tuesday morning. Spent 17 hours driving back from Ouray. We spent the last two days in Ouray.

Picture from Black Bear Pass - The Tacoma was parked on the trail. The owner must have been hiking.

 

What all did you run out there? We're leaving in a month for that area if plans hold.

 

Cinnamon Pass
Super Secret
Alpine Loop
Stony Pass
Ophir Pass
Imogene
Black Bear

We made sure to be heading back to town in the afternoons before it started raining -- usually around 3:00 PM.

 

Awesome! You guys packed them in. How were trail conditions? We're talking about running Stony east to west from Creede. Any obstacles or really tight switchbacks that might give me problems pulling my trailer over Stony? Ophir looks pretty straight forward, and Imogene looks really exposed, but not difficult.

 

The tight switchbacks were on Black Bear. Trail conditions were generally good. Check local trail info for any mudslides. I didn't take Stony to Creede -- though a couple of members in the group did at the end when they departed.

https://www.ouraynews.com/news/storm-triggers-rockfall-mudslides-red-mountain-pass

 

Rain is the best to be on the scenic parts. No traffic. (Of course, slickrock becomes.... Deadly....)

 

After crossing the deep step on Black Bear (the one where trucks flip over the front wheels), I thought I was safe. Then a ways up I'm riding the edge over a wet rock and feel the rear begin to shift toward the cliff. Hitting the brakes would have made it worse, so I had to lightly accelerate down hill to get out of that spot.

Like driving on ice.

Then one evening just before dark and it started raining we sent on an uncharted trail that was one lane around a mountain with no place to pull over for a long distance. That was the scariest trail of them all. I think the name was the little giant trail.

 

Jealous of that Colorado trip. Sounds awesome!

Nice zinger for an old man!

 

A guy in the CO Black Bear Pass FB club made a video of the steps the day before I ran them. This is how it looks.

https://youtu.be/cf-xscTNce0

 

The trail cam and backup cams were a huge help that let me run BBP in the LX470 without a spotter. I could tell where the front bumper was on the trail when I needed to get up to the edge on a 2 or 3 point switchback.

This is looking down on the BBP trail from the front bumper.

 

Need to get me one of those. The higher up my truck goes the less I can see...

 

I think Imogene Pass was my favorite.

https://youtu.be/Vf04P_NsA4U

 

^^^ Agree^^^

 

Just ordered my Quik Fix seat spacers from @mrproduxn.

Also, I have a serious case of the jellies for that CO trip. I got chills watching the steps video. Thanks for posting these pics @CS_AR

 

You can see the rocks that have been piled up on the last big step before the right hand turn to make it less off camber and shorten the step. Clencher, for sure.

 

Here's a vid of bike going off Schofield into the Punch Bowl. Lucky dude. Rich and I opted not to run this last year, it's super shelfy. Only one section of Lead King Basin was this skinny, and that was more than enough excitement. Lesson learned: Always eat at the famous BBQ joint in Marble after the run, never before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlb8ic6ivcg

 

Of all the places to fall, i think he chose a good spot... but, DAYUM!