Ouray
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<jealous>. Should be perfect timing.
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JK Jedi
Member MikeOK was posting a lot a few months ago about heading to Ouray this summer, but can't recall his timing.
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Just an update....
The weekend after the 4th was packed in Ouray, I always ran into at least a few people on the trails. There were tons of UTV's and rent-a-Jeeps running around and on the trails. It was "unusually hot" and very dry in town according to some of the locals, 85 degrees and a couple of 15 minute showers. Apparently they opened up Imogene a few days before we got there so there were still several places where you drove through snow 10+ feet deep on each side of the trail. There was plenty of snow up in the mountains and some of the streams were running pretty good. Not a bad trip this year but now I know why I like August and late September so much. We went on Imogene, Engineer, Ophir and Animas Forks. We actually started up Engineer from 550 and ran into a guy in a stock F-150 coming down with the help of two other Jeeps and some spotters, I have no idea how he had not ripped off his running boards and spoiler by that point?
The weekend after the 4th was packed in Ouray, I always ran into at least a few people on the trails. There were tons of UTV's and rent-a-Jeeps running around and on the trails. It was "unusually hot" and very dry in town according to some of the locals, 85 degrees and a couple of 15 minute showers. Apparently they opened up Imogene a few days before we got there so there were still several places where you drove through snow 10+ feet deep on each side of the trail. There was plenty of snow up in the mountains and some of the streams were running pretty good. Not a bad trip this year but now I know why I like August and late September so much. We went on Imogene, Engineer, Ophir and Animas Forks. We actually started up Engineer from 550 and ran into a guy in a stock F-150 coming down with the help of two other Jeeps and some spotters, I have no idea how he had not ripped off his running boards and spoiler by that point?