CCR2000 attendees... your attention please... :)

[mattadams]

anyone who was NOT in my group (Ophir pass on Saturday, Engineer Pass on Sunday)... can I get some volunteers do a little write-up on those particular trails?

Also, if anyone has any pictures of the event they haven't previously posted in other threads, please post links to them here. Please note by doign so you give me the right to put em on the trail write-up .

 

[mattadams]

anyone?

 

[tdavis]

bueller?

bueller?

 

[Ray Hutchinson]

Sat Write up??

Matt.

Well here goes:

The Saturday group, led by Warren (Wabbit) and Christine (Kwistine), of Montrose Co. , started the morning by heading out with the whole group, participating in the head turning Explorer Convoy through Ouray We all traveled out highway 550 South, splitting off from the Back Bear Pass group at the BB Rd. entrance. We continued on to the entrance to FR 679-Ophir Pass Road, pausing to set the hubs. Ophir Pass Rd is another shelf Road, for the most part, that takes you and up over to the town of Ophir. From Ophir we went down the Ophir Loop rd, to Highway 145, and into Telluride. In Telluride we drove out to Liberty Bell Mine to watch the Black Bear Pass group, far up on the Mountainside, inching down the switchback road past Bridal Veil Falls.

Tiring of waiting for the Black Bear group, we left the village of Telluride, out FR869 up to the Imogene Mine for lunch and to wait there for the BB Boys. From Imogene Mine, the entire recombined group traveled over the Imogene pass, FR853, down Sneffels Canyon Creek Rd. joined the Yankee Boy road, passed under the "Colorado Car Wash" falls and back into Ouray. The scenery was absolutely spectacular, the shelf roads sometimes terrifying, and the roads fun, but otherwise unchallenging.

Matt: feel free to edit, delete, ignore, or whatever you like. Mostly a pretty interesting, but uneventful from a 4X standpoint, day. Face it, we kept being dogged and passed by that pesky Honda Civic!

 

[mattadams]

Ray, that works for me... did anyone do a trail write up for engineer pass? I might just avoid including it, but it would be great to get some pictures of the stock group doing cinammon pass.

 

[DarkMan]

Okay, I FINALLY got all my pictures of CCR2000 scanned and on the web. Sorry it took me a MONTH to get them up. Everybody come look!

http://members.home.net/legacydesign/wheelin/

Edit: Three years later, I found this post. Just in case anyone is leafing through old posts, my write up on this trip is now at http://www.light-spark.com/4x4/ccr2000/ .
7-17-2003

 

[Peter Weber]

Darkman,
I went and looked. Great pictures.
Still kinda bummed I didn't make it this year (I was at last years inaugural run). But I just couldn't pass up the Rubicon run with Tom, Colin & Winter.

 

[Scott B.]

DarkMan,

You have some great shots! Do you mind if I grab the ones that include my truck? Nothing commerical, just wallpaper and such.

Thanks,

 

[DarkMan]

Anyone is welcome to the shots on my wheelin' page. Especially you, Scott. I gotta get me one of those ARB compressors. By the way, are you still interested in selling those Rancho 5000s? I'll pay shipping!