Where Have You Off-Roaded Today? 3rd Gen

Headed down to the Silverton area to help out with the Hardrock 100. Friday I was helping setup the Engineer Pass aid station (yep, I was FORCED to do Engineer Pass as part of my volunteering).
Setting up a 30'x40' tarp was interesting (besides having to haul it from Engineer Pass down 1-2 miles to the race course).
And a quick stop at Animas Forks on the way back down (not many pictures on the way up because we had to get the aid station ready).

 

After my first day of volunteering up Engineer Pass, day to was another horrible assignment. I was the driver for people clearing the course, and the section I was driving required me to hit up Ophir Pass. As you can tell, this volunteering thing was a very selfless activity that I got nothing selfish out of. Roger (ended up with only one person sweeping the course) was amazing as he covered about 20 miles by foot, and I would guess around 6K feet of elevation gain in those 20 miles. But, the driving was really tough too...

 

Had to look it up ...

Hardrock 100 At a Glance
100-mile run with 33,050 feet of climb and 33,050 feet of descent for a total elevation change of 66,100 feet with an average elevation of 11,186 feet - low point 7,680 feet (Ouray) and high point 14,048 feet (Handies Peak).

 

And I thought the Badwater 135 was tough, but it’s much less elevation, only 14600’ … though I suppose most or even all of the Badwater is hotter.

 

Tooled around up near Browns Camp on Sunday.

 

Wheels up

 

Just got back from staying a few days in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park and checked out Ocotillo Wells SVRA as well
Not the best time to go at all and did not take many truck pictures as it was 108+ degrees

Mandatory serpent sculpture picture:

 

Canyonlands National park in Utah. Stopped here for a day during a road trip last week. Amazing country out there.

 

More fishing and nice to have this lake to myself, but too damn hot for fishing. Not a good trend these recent summers.

Might have to leave the boat at home for a while and just spend the time exploring for new small fishing holes.

 

Elbe Hills, Wa this last weekend. Ended up caving my driver fender/door in some more, but nothing half ass un fixable so thats nice.

 

There's a chance this will inspire me to break my truck.

 

Just got back from Ouray/Silverton, Co, running trails with some FJs and 4Runners. Always a great time up there.

 

Heintooga round bottom road/balsam mountain road
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
(From this past weekend)

 

Was it as bad/scary as people say?

 

bad and scary? It’s a logging road

 

On Imogene, there are a lot of shelf roads and a few spots where you need to pick a good line, but overall its a great trail. There are other trails in the area if you want to build up to Imogine or Black Bear.

 

Cool thanks for the response it’s on the to do list for sure!

 

literally thousands a year take these roads, not sure what’s so crazy?

 

My guy not everyone is on the same level... to a lot this trail isn't shit, to others its a big deal. Regardless of how difficult you find it, its got amazing views!

Crazy you just joined Friday an already have more posts than I... but not hard to see why.