Ouray-Silverton Wheelin

[yzergod]

Here is a picture of my club up on Black Bear during a trail repair stint with BFGoodrich. You can see my gray 3 on the right. I live in Durango, which is about 45 minutes south of Silverton. Each year the Hummer Club comes to Durango for a week of wheeling in the area. I'd be happy to play tour guide as the trails you mentioned are my playground! [thinking to self...]Hmmm, maybe an Elcova run during the summer? Hmmm... [/thinking to self...]

[K9sH3]

I like the way you think....

[RuggedH2]

Yzergod you are a fortunate dude to live there. I've been through Durango lots. (I miss the old Iron Horse motorcycle rally).

The off road options within 4-5 hours of your house are unreal! I think a Summer run there would impress a lot of people. People have heard it is a beautiful area, but until you see it you just don't get it.

Moab is close too, trip could easily include wheeling in both places for anyone interested. Even though you could easily spend days in either place.

Cool offer to guide.

[Crash ?]

Something else ya might think about with Ouray and Moab...

Run 145 and 141 out of the Ouray/Telluride area up towards Gateway, CO... Just south of Gateway is a road called John Brown Road.. Run it east into Utah and if you get lucky and follow the right paths it'll run you right into Moab.

I haven't confirmed this first hand, but have heard the route is there... It's broken up on MS Streets and Trips, but I've found a couple of routes across on my Garmin Navigator v.7 maps.

I may be looking to confirm the route in late June...

Rob

[RuggedH2]

Neo lives in Moab, I'm not trying to volunteer him against his will, but he could confirm that in a few free hours.

[Crash ?]

Originally Posted by 0313H3

Neo lives in Moab, I'm not trying to volunteer him against his will, but he could confirm that in a few free hours.

Now what fun would that be for me..???

Rob

[RuggedH2]

Originally Posted by Crash ?

Now what fun would that be for me..???

Rob

Good point Crash. I was looking at that from a selfish point of view, those are two of my favorite places. I was seeing it from a shortest distance between two places perspective. I had never heard of that route before.

[yzergod]

Originally Posted by 0313H3

Yzergod you are a fortunate dude to live there. The off road options within 4-5 hours of your house are unreal!

Cool offer to guide.

True dat! Moab is 2½ hours West of me, Silverton about 50 minutes North with Ouray another 30 past that, and as an added bonus, Choke Cherry Canyon in Farmington, NM is about 45 minutes South of me. Choke Cherry is the site of numerous rock crawling race stages/events throughout the year. It is a playground of sandstone/slickrock that is vastly different than Moab. What is neat about it is that you can follow a trail or find an area to play around in. Since it is all BLM, you can drive anywhere. Fun, fun!

Here are a few pics of Choke Cherry. Remember, since it is a 'playground', everything has a bypass if wanted/needed, and no... not everything is at that level of difficulty!

Club member in his Scout buggy...


A few shots taken from one of the ARCA (now RCAA) races...

[NEOCON1]

sweeet i wanna come play over there

[yzergod]

Originally Posted by NEOCON1

sweeet i wanna come play over there

You're invited next time we go play!

[Wisha Haddan H3]

Originally Posted by yzergod

Here is a picture of my club up on Black Bear during a trail repair stint with BFGoodrich. You can see my gray 3 on the right. I live in Durango, which is about 45 minutes south of Silverton. Each year the Hummer Club comes to Durango for a week of wheeling in the area. I'd be happy to play tour guide as the trails you mentioned are my playground! [thinking to self...]Hmmm, maybe an Elcova run during the summer? Hmmm... [/thinking to self...]

I'd be up for that. I've never been to Durango or the Ouray/Silverton area and it sounds awesome!