[updated:LAST EDITED ON 01-16-03 AT 12:25 PM (EST)]Hi Carlene,

Most of my photos are from the late 1980's I will see what I can do about scanning them. I did some snowmobiling on Lake Dillon, always liked the Snow Sculpting and World Free Style compitition in Breakenridge. I am not sure how to send attachments in the FTE user mail system. But here is a recent one (last summer) looking west toword Leadville from Mosquito Pass.

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Wes

 

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I took this yesterday, it's about 1 mile east of the west Frisco off ramp. I was about 2 hours ahead of a big crash that closed the road.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/weather/1910940/detail.html

 

Dang, that looks slick. Makes me miss the commute over Hoosier Pass. LOL

Wes

 

>Nice Pictures! My wife and I did some passes in June on our
>anniversary, she will not do Black Bear again but did like
>most of them. Here is a picture of Engineer Pass, 12,500
>just East of where alanscott took some of his pictures.
>Note the snow in June, this was a dry year! This was a
>shake down cruise for the fresh motor. The haze in the sky
>is from forest fires.
>
>Wes
>
I'm in agreement with your wife, all the way. I have been over Black Bear on a 4 wheeler but I don't think I would want to in a full size Ford.


A cookie to who can guess what road I was on when I took this last December.
Hint: it's in Colorado

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Someone would have to want to go really bad for me to horse that truck over it again, backed down one switch back. 4 wheelers are a real nice way to go down Black Bear!

Wes

 

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 01-16-03 AT 12:52 PM (EST)]Say that looks like 141 South of Gateway, man I love that country! My nephew was going to the school in Gateway when a big chunk of the West end of that Butte fell off, the locals said that it felt like an earth quake. The Dynamite Shoot there is a Blast!

 

This should keep you busy for awhile. These are all the same day, from both sides of Gateway.


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[updated:LAST EDITED ON 01-16-03 AT 01:06 PM (EST)]Hey alanscott, flash flood just south of your first Gateway Pic. I was very worried about the possibility of a rock comming off a cliff and onto the truck, rocks were rolling across the highway.
BTW Cookie?

Wes

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Nice pics of the mountains - I haven't been out to Colorado in perhaps 15 years or so, and they bring back some memories. I really liked the Ouray/Silverton area, and thought seriously about moving there...though I suppose if everyone moved there it just wouldn't be the same.

Okay, now I have a question for you Colorado (or ex-Colorado) folks. I went out that way a couple times in the mid/late '80s, and I remember going over a pass that at the highest point went through a tunnel carved into the rock - I think they called it the "Eye of the Needle" or something like that. Does anybody remember where this place is? The last time I went out there I remember that the tunnel was closed off because part of it had collapsed, so to get over the pass there was a little two-track that went even higher up the mountain. I went for a walk to the tunnel to see how much had fallen, and I learned that the average midwesterner should NOT go for a long walk at that elevation. I started feeling pretty lightheaded, and was worried that I'd fall down the side of the mountain and not even notice. Gave me a new respect for the people who climb Everest, that's for sure...

LK

 

Hi LK,

Check out Rollins Pass, was this it?

http://www.4x4now.com/pp0497.htm

[link:www.4x4now.com/pp0497.htm]

Wes

 

>Check out Rollins Pass, was this it?

Yup, that's the one! Looks like my dates are off - they say it was closed again in '90, and I thought the last time I was out there was the late '80s. I suppose 1990 might count as the "late '80s". They also say there isn't a way around, but there was a two-track that went even further up the mountain...perhaps that was private property and I shouldn't have driven up there. Oops. I never saw any sign, or I wouldn't have gone that way.

Thanks for the info - I knew the name of the tunnel, but not the name of the pass. Now that I know the name, I can actually find it on the map. Heck, I didn't even know what part of the state to look for it, because I covered a lot of territory when I was out there.

Now if I could only remember that tiny little pass I went across and found an old abandoned mine, and then found that the road had been blown out with dynamite. Unfortunately, I don't even remember enough of that place to come up with any good details. Going back over that pass, in the dark, was about the scariest thing I've ever done on four wheels. The road was cut into the mountainside & piled with loose shale, and my Jeep (was driving a Cherokee at the time) barely fit on the ledge - the only way to fit was to hang the outside two tires off the edge, and fold the inside mirror back so I could hug the rock face. My passengers got out and walked, because they thought I was going over the edge - and so did I!

LK