Monday, August 10, 2015

Ouray Jeep Adventure Day 2 Imogene Pass

You'll notice water seems to be the theme today...

At this point I was a little intimidated by driving on this narrow road with the rock overhang and the long drop off on one side. If only I knew what I was in for in the coming days...






Marmot - these are talkative critters


 

The Red Mountains - these are the same mountains you see when you drive up the Red Mountain Highway - aka the million dollar highway.

This is Imogene Pass - we'll follow this road into Telluride.

Love the colors...Even if my side of the road drops off quickly.

We were so impressed when this biker passed us we failed to take a picture. Imogene Pass is 13,114 ft - I'm assuming he climbed from Telluride which is at 8,750 ft. I could barely breathe just walking and this guy was riding his bike up the pass...



Scott, Stan and Turbo

Scott, Stan and Larry


The funniest picture of the trip...what else can I say?


This is Black Bear Pass - we'll go down this in a few days...


Turbo must have run miles every day going back and forth across the Jeep watching everything that was going on.

Jeepers recognize this Jeep everywhere we go - it helps that Ken is such a wonderful trail ambassador.


From Telluride we took the highway back to Ouray since Anna's family was coming in. We then drove up to Yankee Boy Basin just above Ouray.





None of these pictures capture the true beauty of the area. It was amazing...

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