Alpine Loop and Ouray Area - 7/22 - 7/26/15

yup kayla and eric need another crack at the wall as well...i was the only one our group to make it up unassisted

 

We did it, it was allsome.

 

Through Animas Forks, up Cinnamon and found a camp site on the way up Engineer as planned.

 

Some of my pics from that day...

Mountain Rat


On the way up Poughkeepsie



Little obstacle just before the wall


@09blacktaco gettin after it on the wall




onwards and upwards


more mine stuff...

 

This trip looks amazing. What's the window for these passes to be well, passable? From what I understand they are covered in snow most of the year and impassable.

 

this trip makes me want to get one of those EAF grills!

 

I was honestly surprised at the usefullness of the thing....

It'll never look like it did when it was new, but it worked well to cook on.
Saw some options at the ol' wally world the other day and thought about it.

 

I used that second one in Montana last year, the height adjustability was really cool and useful.

 

Most of the ones we ran had opened just a few weeks prior. They actually plow most of them as well, if they didn't might not be until August. Check out the drifts below, these were fairly small, some of the bigger ones were still 5-10' walls next to the trail.

A few of the trails up closer to us are only open for 3-6 weeks all year, very small window to hit them.

 

Nice trip report! Looks like the conditions were close to identical from the week before when we were there. The wall was impassable with the amount of mud and the rain/sleet coming down. We all had to winch up.

 

I know the drifts on Imogene were taller than my truck when we went

 

Here are my pics from that day!

The turn right before the wall






No pics of the wall. too busy helping pull winch cables and getting rained on.
but here is one after the wall.


this section was harder then it looked!


Lunch Spot




Turned into a shit show when we got to the top of the pass with a bunch of side by sides showing up.

 

Nice reporting gents!

 

Great trip! i'll be down there in two weeks!

 

So as I read through this it appears that in your group the only truck with a locked front end made it up the wall? That would be the same thing with us since @NYCO is the only one locked in front.

 

No, Matt doesn't have a front locker. He does have bigger tires than the rest of us, and got a chance to hit it before the harder rain set it.

I would've liked to try the father right line where Matt made it up, but being last in the rain with people waiting it was time to pull line and continue on with the trail. Next time....

 

I don't think Matt's locked up front....
He is on 35's with LT though, and it was drier for him.

Plus he's an excellent driver

 

Ninja'd by @Home Alone

 

Nice photos!