jonharis
Adventure Imports
With the Success of the 100 series run at Cruise Moab this year, there has been significant interest in doing a 100 series weekend in the San Juan Mountains near Ouray. I have been speaking with several members via PM of the past few weeks and I think we can get a good turn out. Thanks bluecruiser for your interest and helping with preliminary planning.
I will be in the San Juans several times this summer with different clubs but would also really like to do a 100 series only run also.
Here are the dates. The dates below were chosen to avoid the larger off road, running events.
August 19-21 (this could be interesting as it is the same weekend of StarTrails 2011, an annual Mercedes 4x4 event.)
Friday would be intended as a travel day, camp set up, meet and greet. We will be camping in Ironton Park (See page 4 for maps and directions), near Ouray, CO. This is the best home base for most of the trails in the area. It also features 2 brewery's, several great hot-springs and shops. Ouray has some great hotels for people who don't want to camp.
Saturday will be the longer of two trail days. We will run the Alpine Loop. This set of trails will take us 65 miles through some of Colorado's (and the world's) best scenery including 2 passes over 12K feet. Dependent on the group we will do a aide trip up Poughkeepsie Gulch! We will enjoy Lunch in Lake City, CO or on the trail. We may truncate the Alpine Loop by running the more interesting California/Corkscrew route after completing Engineer.
[STRIKE]Sunday will be one of 2 runs based on the confidence of the group. We will either run Black Bear Pass and Imogene Pass or Ophir Pass and Imogene Pass. Lunch will be in Telluride. [/STRIKE]
We will be running Blackbear/Imogene pass. This is suitable for a stock 100 series. You will have good spotters. I ran this on July 31st 2011 and it is in great condition.
Most of the obstacles on most of the trails are avoidable but there will be some ledges and rocky sections (the road up Engineer is the worst we will encounter). If you are planning on doing all the trails above I would recommend at minimum Sliders with the expectation that you may lightly damage your bumper covers. The preferred setup would be Sliders and Front/Rear Bumpers. I would also really like it if everyone had a CB but it's not required.
Lets see what we can do with this! I think it could turn out to be a great gathering!
I will be in the San Juans several times this summer with different clubs but would also really like to do a 100 series only run also.
Here are the dates. The dates below were chosen to avoid the larger off road, running events.
August 19-21 (this could be interesting as it is the same weekend of StarTrails 2011, an annual Mercedes 4x4 event.)
Friday would be intended as a travel day, camp set up, meet and greet. We will be camping in Ironton Park (See page 4 for maps and directions), near Ouray, CO. This is the best home base for most of the trails in the area. It also features 2 brewery's, several great hot-springs and shops. Ouray has some great hotels for people who don't want to camp.
Saturday will be the longer of two trail days. We will run the Alpine Loop. This set of trails will take us 65 miles through some of Colorado's (and the world's) best scenery including 2 passes over 12K feet. Dependent on the group we will do a aide trip up Poughkeepsie Gulch! We will enjoy Lunch in Lake City, CO or on the trail. We may truncate the Alpine Loop by running the more interesting California/Corkscrew route after completing Engineer.
[STRIKE]Sunday will be one of 2 runs based on the confidence of the group. We will either run Black Bear Pass and Imogene Pass or Ophir Pass and Imogene Pass. Lunch will be in Telluride. [/STRIKE]
We will be running Blackbear/Imogene pass. This is suitable for a stock 100 series. You will have good spotters. I ran this on July 31st 2011 and it is in great condition.
- Black Bear is highly dependent on road conditions as it often has rock slides that close the road for months. It is a steep tight road traveling into Telluride. There really are not any major technical spots but a wrong move, bad brakes, horseplay can mean death. Many of the switchbacks will require 3 and 4 point turns.
- Ophir Pass is drivable by stock vehicles (even cars with good clearance). It does not have the epic feel of Black Bear but still offers incredible views and history.
- Imogene Pass is is moderate in difficulty and is the preferred route out of Telluride. Imogene drops into Yankee Boy Basin with options for several side trips before returning to Ouray.
Most of the obstacles on most of the trails are avoidable but there will be some ledges and rocky sections (the road up Engineer is the worst we will encounter). If you are planning on doing all the trails above I would recommend at minimum Sliders with the expectation that you may lightly damage your bumper covers. The preferred setup would be Sliders and Front/Rear Bumpers. I would also really like it if everyone had a CB but it's not required.
Lets see what we can do with this! I think it could turn out to be a great gathering!
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??? Its OK, I'll be bringing harder libations. 
