San Juan Mountains, Colorado

[FishPOET]

Imogene Pass at 13,114'

[FishPOET]

Bridal Veil Falls near Telluride

[USMC 0369]

Bridal Veil Falls near Telluride

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[COLOR="darkred"]What a horrible place to live...


your sarcasm meter should be pegged out.[/COLOR]

[Mike]

[COLOR="darkred"]What a horrible place to live...


your sarcasm meter should be pegged out.[/COLOR]

Actually, it would be a 'horrible' place to work. It is a power plant believe it or not!

[sarah]

Soooo prettyyyy!

[Mike]

Clear Lake

Sunday afternoon was the Clear Lake run. Sergio (50yj), RAT, and I left Cortez, CO in the morning and headed to the campsite. On the way we stopped by the Hogan Trading Post:


At the campsite, we were greeted by some very hefty Golden Mantled Squirrels:


After we set up camp, we headed up to Clear Lake. There is a cool waterfall beside the trail:


When we got to the lake, Sharon and I took a side trail to overlook the group at the lake:




We checked out the lake and did a little fishing in a hail storm:






We saw several marmots during the trip:


We also stopped and hiked out to another really cool waterfall:


Afterward we went to dinner at the Bent Elbow:






Then we toured around Silverton and checked out some of the sites:


Some local four wheel drives:




It was a great start to the trip!

[Jason]

Fishpoet said Epic! You weren't kiding.

A few things I just noticed;
1- Rat forgot to pack a jacket?
2- Whose baby?
3- Chuck, you're left handed? That explains alot.

[Mike]

Fishpoet said Epic! You weren't kiding.

A few things I just noticed;
1- Rat forgot to pack a jacket?
2- Whose baby?
3- Chuck, you're left handed? That explains alot.

1. Yes.
2. Ryan and Cathy's
3. Chuck????

[Jason]

3. Chuck????

That's not a watch on his right arm?

[FishPOET]

Stony Pass. We crossed the Continental Divide and found the headwaters of the Rio Grande.


Durango Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad in the Animas Gorge

[Russ Chung]

Slow upload speeds and not much time. Here are a few pics:

Sunday--Clear Lake Trail:





Monday-- Alpine Loop:

















Tuesday--Black Bear Pass:

[InlandZJ]

Thank you guys for posting these awesome pics and shareing your adventure!

[Mike]

Monday

On Monday, a group of us went to Animas Forks ghost town before the run around the Alpine Loop:









We took a spur up to Hurricane Basin:






We stopped for lunch at a great waterfall:


We spent most of the Cinnamon Pass trail in the rain, but it just made it that much more fun:




On the way back out on CR 2, the road ended up being blocked by a big landslide:




So we had to take the California Gulch trail to get back to the pavement:




Dinner was BBQ at "Thee Pitts Again":

[FishPOET]

Gray Copper Gulch


Sound Democrat Mine Mill in Placer Gulch


Mickey Breene Mine


Chuck towing Ryan up "The Obstacle" in Poughkeepsie Gulch


Danny climbing "The Obstacle"

[FishPOET]

Everyone is on their way home now. This thread will explode in the next week as we guestimated that the group took 50,000 photos and 250 hours of video.