Denver to Durango Off Road Trip

jrob

Observer
I posted up in a different section a while back asking for input on my route for this trip and received some great info. Big thank you to everyone that contributed. Now that it's been completed I thought I would share some pictures and a brief report.

We departed Denver around 10pm on the 23rd. Late start but we made it out I-70 to Keystone and about 4 miles up Saint Johns road where we found a cool little spot to camp.

Headlights:
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All the lights:
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And Since I am sure someone will ask, I am running 2 50W 6.7" Light Cannons up front with spot covers and a 40" curved roof bar from Zero Dark Lighting/explorationoutfitters.com Outstanding product I gotta say. Extremely happy with my 450 dollar light bar.

Woke up to frosty tent and a moose about 15 yard away. Beautiful creature, but I couldn't get a picture. I know this is blurry, temp was probably high 20s and the Camera on my phone wouldn't focus.
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Onward to North Fork Swan River and Breckenridge.
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We saw a Golden eagle take flight up here. I thought it was a freaking pterodactyle. Massive Birds.
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Onward to Alma and Mosquito pass.
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Where we encountered this rock slide debris. I couldn't fit through without incurring some major body damage so I actually got to use my hi-lift jack to move some rocks out of the way.
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From Leadville we skipped Hagerman's and just took Indy pass, we were kind pressed for time.
It didn't suck.
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Then made our way out to the start of Pearl Pass where we found an awesome camp spot.
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Pearl Pass was a little rowdy. It would have been nice to have another vehicle. We rolled solo.
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From here it was down 50 to the other side of Blue Mesa Reservoir and Owl Creek Pass to Ridgeway.
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That completed the Trip to my house but a couple nights later we went and camped on top of Ophir pass in the tent and woke up to this...
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We were toasty warm inside the tent but packing it up in those conditions was a bit of a chore. Coming down into Telluride we were treated to some pretty amazing colors.
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Everything took a little longer than expected and we had to shave off a lot of the original route due to time constraints, but it was amazing.
All told it was 410 miles total 90 of which being dirt.

Cheers.
 

SIZZLE

Pro-party
Great report and cool trip. Looks like you got some great weather, including a bit of everything. Beautiful pics, thanks for posting.
 

taz223

ExplorationOutfitters.com
Great report, looks like an awesome trip, makes me want to pack up the Jeep and head back to CO. Also, thanks for the positive words on our products! If you get a chance, send me a shot or 2 of your rig with the lights if you don't mind us using them!

Matt
EO/ZDL
 

jrob

Observer
Thanks for all the kind words everyone. I found this video of the difficult section on pearl pass. Really its only difficult because of the water running through it. Sorry it's just an Iphone video, but you get the idea.

Taz223 I will try to get some good night time/dusk shots of the truck with the lights on for you. We recently got a Cannon T3 but I don't really know what I'm doing with it.


[video]https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152792769159267[/video]
 

el_topu

Adventurer
Nice report and awesome pics!!
How do you like those light canons from vision x?


Enviado desde mi iPhone con Tapatalk
 

jrob

Observer
They're great. Ridiculously bright, and interchangeable lenses. They're very bulky and seem to run pretty hot for an LED but I'm happy with them.
 

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