2nd Annual Colorado Jeep-CJ.com Trail Report

[Old Dog]

I just got back in town, great pic's. and yes cj post them all.
Good to hear you all had a great time and noone broke anything.

 

[Petescj]

I just have to for now. Its all I can do to keep from crying. One day...

 

[BusaDave9]

One day...

One day ...

... next year?


It would be great if you could join us Pete.
We met many time in cyberspace but never in reality.

 

[73CJ]

Nice photos!

Thanks

Looks like everyone had a blast. Mighty hard to beat that scenery

 

[007]

Here's some pictures I took on my Black Bear trip (same day as IO and Busa). Just to give some more perspective...

This one is of the guy in front of us walking the steps before driving them...



Here is one of him heading down...



Here's one of US heading down...



Here's a look back, circled is where the off-cambered steps are... DO NOT BE FOOLED, JUST RIGHT OF THE LOWER PORTION OF THE TRAIL IS A SEVERAL HUNDRED FOOT DROP OFF - you fall off the "steps" you fall off the mountain...



This next one is on Imogene, looking back east at the Red Mountains - circled is a portion of the Corckscrew Gulch trail...



Here is another view of the Imogene trail (seen on right) as you get below the timberline...

 

[CJ]

Great pictures!

Here are two I found in Busa's picture shots that I thought were 'interesting' !

 

[CJ007]

One of these things is not like the other...






I am guessing it has to do with height.

 

[BusaDave9]

^ ^ ^ yes, what's different about those Jeeps? ^ ^ ^

 

[BusaDave9]

Koda in a marmot hole.

My dog, Koda, chased a Marmot down it's hole and thought he could dig him out.


EDIT: for you flatlanders, a marmot is like a groundhog but found only in the mountains.

 

[coldair]

^ ^ ^ yes, what's different about those Jeeps? ^ ^ ^

IO's jeep doesn't have the jeep-cj.com banner

 

[BusaDave9]

Here's what happens if you stray off the Black Bear Trail:

http://www.jeep-cj.com/forums/f63/black-bear-imogene-passes-6540/#post56779
And here's my original thread about this trail:
http://www.jeep-cj.com/forums/f63/black-bear-imogene-passes-6540/

 

[PaRenegade]

Winch still looks good!! Wow, what was it? a wrangler?

 

[BusaDave9]

It was a TJ. You can tell by the turn signal that was on the front fender.

 

[Niedhogg]

Jeez... I think I see a couple lug nuts that are still good...

 

[BusaDave9]

Here's a few more pictures I took.
This is shot near Mineral Point on Lower Engineer Pass trail.

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Then the next day we headed for Black Bear Pass. This next shot was after the rough section but before the high switchbacks.
This is IO passing the waterfall.

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On the switchbacks I took this pic of Telluride.

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Here is Bridal Veil Falls. At the top is the old power station that is now a private residence.

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This next shot is on the way to Clear Lake (Day 3, Aug. 29, 2012)

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Here are Larry and Dan tagging along on the way to Clear Lake

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[BusaDave9]

Then on Day 4, Aug. 30, 2012 I headed to Poughkeepsie Gulch but I traveled on Lower Engineer Pass trail (same trail we were on the 1st day)

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Here's a mine on the way

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On Poughkeepsie I climbed this ledge

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After the wall I had to decend this next ledge. I got out to make sure I was taking the best route. I ended up going more to my left.

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After Poughkeepsie Gulch it started to hail at Sunnyside Saddle and I took these 2 pics:

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Then I headed for the Red Mountains and took this pic of my '79 CJ5 :

 

[BusaDave9]

On Friday (the last day of trail rides) we headed to Beartown Site. Here is Larry's CJ5 :

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And here is Larry crossing Pole Creek (the first water crossing of the day)

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Here we took a break at about where Beartown site was (we never did know for sure since there were no remnants left of Beartown)

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Then when we got to Kite Lake I took this picure of my dog Koda

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Then on the way back down from Kite Lake I took this picture of Dan looking for the best way down this rocky section.

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Here is a picture of Dan and Denise being followed by Larry.

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That was it, the last day of the 2nd annual trail ride.

 

[Purple77CJ7]

That sure is some awesome scenery!

 

[Niedhogg]

I hope the thread CJ puts together can show full screen size photos of this trip... It's hard to see the details! I can't wait to go with you guys next time!

 

[BusaDave9]

I hope the thread CJ puts together can show full screen size photos of this trip... It's hard to see the details! I can't wait to go with you guys next time!

I'm sure you know you can click on the bar at the top of the picture to make it a little bigger but I don't like this web site's "feature" to downsize images. Even at full size the images in our gallery are not very big and fit just fine on a laptop display with only 1024x768 resolution.

As a matter of fact the full size image downloads to our PCs and then you can see the images resize so this "feature" doesn't even help with download speeds.