All is still open now, 2.5 weeks could be a different story. I'll be in the area again next weekend and I'll let you know how things look. They've gotten some snow but not enough to close the passes yet.
As for your trail selection... Have you been to the area before? I would take my parents over Engineer a thousand times before mineral creek. Engineer is gorgeous but it's a glorified dirt road....i did the whole thing in 2wd 2 weeks ago except for going down west from the summit where I used 4 low just to control my descent. The toughest and most narrow parts people think of as Engineer are actually mineral creek because it often gets lumped in as it connects Engineer to Ouray.
Photo is from mineral creek. I'd had it lumped in with my imogene photos and was trying to find the spot in my gopro footage until I finally checked the timestamp and realized it was taken between imogene and Poughkeepsie.
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