Colorado Trip Reports

Wow, I knew they got a lot of snow this year, but figured it'd be open by now, or at least Cinnamon would be. Thanks for the info.

 

Ok, I was thinking late august or early september if it works out this year. Thanks.

 

if there has ever been a year to work on the truck go somewhere else or just be lazy this is the year. there is so much snow up high and honestly all the damage is not even know yet due to the historic avalanche cycle this last march. we are just figuring it out. a lot of stuff my guess will be closed all summer long. I mean they Cottonwood pass is scheduled for an early August opening and its paved.

 

We'll still go to Lake City at least, just more fishing this year! Thanks for the info.

 

That's crazy. It will be nice not to be in extreme fire danger, seems like that's been the case for at least the last 5yrs. Thanks.

 

Here you go for active status of the Alpine loop clean up. Notice they haven't even started on Southern side of the loop.

https://hinsdalecounty.maps.arcgis..../index.html#/2f539793d24d47e8abbf3f27a57a93e0

 

Thanks! I'll have to look at that when I can on my home computer.

 

cool map

 

Hey. I am in Ouray/Montrose for the next 3 days. We had planned to drive Imogene Pass but it’s still closed. We are looking at doing Yankee Boy as we think it’s open but hearing mixed reports. Anyone been there this past week? Any other trail recommendations in this area? Thanks!

 

Crystal today, some huge slides from across the river packed the sides of the trail with debris, probably 4 really big ones. Lot of snow up there still, on top of the fresh foot or so.

 

Where is this?

 

Marble, next to McClure pass, Closest town is probably Carbondale

 

seems like that area has slides every year causing issues.. with everyone else having issues, i'm sure it's a mess up there.

 

Yep, they must run a bulldozer through there to clear it, no way it was done with anything smaller. In case there was any doubt, the sign in crystal said Schofield and Lead King were still closed.

 

explosives would be fun

 

Definitely go early morning if you go. I went last September on my dirt bike and was surprised how many trucks/jeeps were on the route. If I weren't on a bike I definitely would have gotten annoyed with all the passing involved.

 

that's awesome this is my attempt on that line 34s and no lockers lots of turtle time. lol

 

A friend hit me up last minute about running T33 plane crash on Saturday to break in her new 4runner. Despite the weather being 50 and rainy we ran into a lot of traffic on the trail. There were a large number of people in rental SXS bombing up and down the trail, bouncing over the rocks and a group of jeeps that apparently left a bunch of trash and beer cans at the plane crash parking lot. Given how busy it was I wouldn't run it on a sunny day, that's for sure.

We started on the Camp Dick side near where MSV trail starts


Moose and its baby






Not even 5k miles and already on the trail lifting tires



The plane crash is neat and worth checking out. I'm amazed that there's still so much wreckage left behind that hasn't walked off with past visitors





Coming down was nice because there wasn't much left traffic since it was after 4 in the afternoon.






Gotta take a good poser pic




I'm overall very content with how the truck handles though lower gears are a must. On the road 5th is pretty much unusable although I did get about 17mpg (after correcting for tire size) driving to Boulder and back in 4th at 50-70mph. On the trail 1st and 4low is still too fast for my liking and I stalled the truck a few times braking while trying to control my descent down ledges

I also needt to add some more BBs to my tires; they balance out til about 50 then it's like riding in a paint shaker so the drive there and back sucked a bit.

After spending about 50 minutes waiting for my little Masterflow compressor to fill our tires I am eyeballing the ARB twin although the price stings

 

Been wanting to run that trail, sounds like it needs to be a weekday trail ride(@johntoyota) though.

 

That would be a good plan. There were dozens of rental SXS and ATVs on the north east end of Bunce School Road, I can only imagine how chaotic it would have been on a sunny weekend