Colorado Wheeling - July 2019

[andy29847]

Imogene Pass Road on the Telluride side approaching Tomboy Mine.

 

[andy29847]

Climbing up Enginerr Pass from the Lake city side. This road is part of Colorado's Alpine Loop. Near the end of the movie we enter the Alpine Tundra. Terrain like the Tundra is found only in far north, at high elevations, and in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

 

[andy29847]

Imogene Pass road, near the top, on the Ouray side. Some steep spots here.

 

[andy29847]

I literally have hours of video from Imogene Pass. I boiled it down into 20 minutes. I called it "Excerpts From Imogene Pass". I'm trying to show the incredible variety of terrain long the way as well as some of the "thrills". The video starts on Tomboy Rd, just outside of Telluride. Set you computer for high def if you can.

 

[psrivats]

Very good videos and really great scenery. Thanks for sharing.

How fast can you typically go on these roads?

 

[andy29847]

Very good videos and really great scenery. Thanks for sharing.

How fast can you typically go on these roads?

That's a hard question to answer. The variety of terrian is seemingly endless, and the weather and road conditions change constantly. Throw in different vehicles, skill levels, and traffic too. My wife and I started Imogene Pass at 1000A. We got to Ouray around 300P. We ate and shopped, then rode Ophir Pass back across the mountain. We were off of Ophir around 600P.

 

[Squatch]

Here is a video from the same day. We caught another group of Jeeper going towards Ouray on Corkscrew Gulch. You can really see the avalanche damage in this video.

Took me a sec to realize I was watching you, and listening to "Kelly's Heroes"!!!

 

[andy29847]

Took me a sec to realize I was watching you, and listening to "Kelly's Heroes"!!!

We were a group of 4 coming down from Corkscrew Pass. We caught a group of 6 Jeeps getting around a group of 20+ Landcruisers, and we all ended up in a line going out to 550. It felt like an army.