Colorado in October 2009

[teotwaki]

Jim,

Your trip got me interested in looking up some history about the area again.

I found several good sites.

Here is one.
http://www.mountainstudies.org/DataBank/History/Miners.htm

Great Report!

That is neat! I like the photos and the colorful words of the folks such as describing the available mining deposits in the mountains as "metalliferous".

Thanks for posting that up!

PS: I need to get back to work and post more photos...

 

[Cypher]

Great pics! I love the San Juan Mountains, and these pics just make me want to back again. Looks like it was a good trip. Thanks for sharing...

 

[DrJohn]

Glad to see more photos of Colorado's historic mining. Thanks for posting.

That muddy/icy trail looks like it was a real hair-raiser

 

[Stan the Man]

Looks like a blast. How many days did you make the trip?

 

[teotwaki]

Looks like a blast. How many days did you make the trip?

Hey Stan!

overall the trip ran from October 10th to the 17th. I drove straight out on the 10th to Durango, switched to Ouray on the 13th, drove out late on the 15th to Sedona and drove home to SoCal on the 17th.

I have a lot of good links and such in the planning thread at:
http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=32234

If you have other questions just let me know. I really want to go back again when the high passes will be open. Maybe next year!

I never really did finish posting all of the pictures. It was sort of tiring to have a newbie one-post wonder start screwing up the thread with argumentative hijacks that he could have at least put in the proper area of the forum. As it is I put the guy on the "ignore" list and his posts don't show up on my screen.

 

[tdesanto]

Otherwise folks just go to your profile, http://www.expeditionportal.com/foru...er.php?u=10537

open "User Lists"

and put you on "Ignore" rather than pay any attention to off-topic posts...

PS: I think that it only takes something like 0.005% of the active users to place the annoying user on "Ignore" and then no one can see any of the annoying user's posts anymore. That would only be for the slow learners who persist in off-topic rants because they cannot figure out the right place to post their diatribes.

Jim, I think it is inappropriate to welcome new members by encouraging others to put them on their “ignore” list.

If you have a problem with DurangoSteve, maybe you guys could settle it like gentlemen. These posts don’t seem like good start in that direction.

Even though this is your trip thread, and a nice one at that with great photos, I cannot think of a better place for me to post than in the same place where you posted the above comments. Since all users can delete or edit their own posts (saving the mods from having to do it), I'll gladly remove this post once the other ones get cleaned up or deleted. This way your thread can get back on topic.

 

[teotwaki]

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Jim, I think it is inappropriate to welcome new members by encouraging others to put them on their “ignore” list.

If you have a problem with DurangoSteve, maybe you guys could settle it like gentlemen. These posts don't seem like good start in that direction.

Even though this is your trip thread, and a nice one at that with great photos, I cannot think of a better place for me to post than in the same place where you posted the above comments. Since all users can delete or edit their own posts (saving the mods from having to do it), I'll gladly remove this post once the other ones get cleaned up or deleted. This way your thread can get back on topic.

I don't see anyone lecturing Durango Steve for his terse little comments such as "Thought I'd inject a little reality". Don't forget, I did ask him to move the comments to a more appropriate area and he responded with more garbage. If the mods have provided us with the "ignore" tool and if D-S did not want to delete his own posts then there is nothing wrong with using a tool the Forum has provided. If D-S spent more time being accurate it never would have been such a big deal... I simply put him on my ignore list and stopped responding to him. Nothing wrong with announcing that, is there?

PS: when exactly is it appropriate to put a user on the ignore list? After a nice trip report is totally trashed the way that the illegal tree climber Frans did to my Salt Tram thread???

 

[teotwaki]

And if you are so opposed to the ignore tool why did you ressurrect my comments when all along I have been ignoring Durango Steve?? Maybe you could have used a PM instead????

 

[tdesanto]

I don't see anyone lecturing Durango Steve for his terse little comments such as "Thought I'd inject a little reality". Don't forget, I did ask him to move the comments to a more appropriate area and he responded with more garbage. If the mods have provided us with the "ignore" tool and if D-S did not want to delete his own posts then there is nothing wrong with using a tool the Forum has provided. If D-S spent more time being accurate it never would have been such a big deal... I simply put him on my ignore list and stopped responding to him. Nothing wrong with announcing that, is there?

Jim, I read your comments as encouragement for other members to do the same. Now, you might say I inferred the intended meaning incorrectly. If that's the case, then why mention it at all? I certainly support your using any tools the BBS software has to offer, but that's not what we're talking about here, is it?

 

[tdesanto]

And if you are so opposed to the ignore tool why did you ressurrect my comments when all along I have been ignoring Durango Steve?? Maybe you could have used a PM instead????

I thought I explained that in the same post?

Even though this is your trip thread, and a nice one at that with great photos, I cannot think of a better place for me to post than in the same place where you posted the above comments. Since all users can delete or edit their own posts (saving the mods from having to do it), I'll gladly remove this post once the other ones get cleaned up or deleted. This way your thread can get back on topic.

 

[teotwaki]

You must have missed the time when my other trip report thread on the Salt Tram was hijacked by the guy who insinuated that artifacts were illegally removed. Turns out that that guy was illegally climbing protected trees. Some font of virtue, eh? Try to understand that I seem to have become a magnet for newbies to drop in and offer off-topic nonsense in my trip reports and I am sensitive to it.

If your first post had said "hey, I had a chat with DurangoSteve and he has already self-deleted all of his off topic posts" you just know that I would conclude that deleting my posts would be a nice way to seal the deal. I'd be much happier to have none of it here, including my responses. All that negative doo-doo is not what I am about.

Give that a try and I'll take the next positive step after that, okay? I'll give you lots of props if you pull that off! :wings:

Please, either let the dead issue lay or just get D-S to delete what he started. I'me tired of any sort of hijack of my trip reports. This sort of stuff really belongs in Fireside Chat, not here.

 

[Ford Prefect]

HEY I have got some off topic non-sense for you!

then again I am not all that new, been lerking for over a year...

And really all I wanted to talk about was the area...

I LOVE Ouray, that entire area is wonderful. Love going out there. The entire family likes to meet up there every year or so.

Looks like you had a great trip, and some nice photos, really like Annimas forks in the snow! Some day I am going to have to go up there later in the year...

If you get the chance... Head back right after they have cleared out the snow on Imogene pass.

It is wonderful! They end up plowing out trenches twenty feet deep (or more) and driving through those with the mountains all around... wow, spectacular.

Thanks for the photos!

Brian

 

[mtnbike28]

Thanks for sharing...

Great trip and report! Thanks again for sharing!

 

[teotwaki]

HEY I have got some off topic non-sense for you!

then again I am not all that new, been lerking for over a year...

And really all I wanted to talk about was the area...

I LOVE Ouray, that entire area is wonderful. Love going out there. The entire family likes to meet up there every year or so.

Looks like you had a great trip, and some nice photos, really like Annimas forks in the snow! Some day I am going to have to go up there later in the year...

If you get the chance... Head back right after they have cleared out the snow on Imogene pass.

It is wonderful! They end up plowing out trenches twenty feet deep (or more) and driving through those with the mountains all around... wow, spectacular.

Thanks for the photos!

Brian

I agree so much that I have to go back! I was supposed to have been there earlier before the snow fell but had to delay for family issues. I'm still glad I made it though and am wondering how to squeeze in a trip in July and make it a forum gathering too.

 

[teotwaki]

Great trip and report! Thanks again for sharing!

I like your photos Jay! Your sig line that says "74 FJ40 - lots of rust" cracks me up :sombrero: