Black Bear Pass - OPEN

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woody

Discussion Starter · Jul 17, 2008 (Edited)

Jon Robichaud, Jay Tischler, and myself took a late run Wednesday afternoon and were the FIRST vehicles to run Black Bear Pass for 2008!

Jon and Jay ran our Trail Team rig, and I had my ol'yeller with 88k on it....AWESOME ride!

lookin forward to tomorrow's runs!

IH8MUD Photo Gallery - 2008 FJ Summit

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FJ-Piper

· #2 · Jul 17, 2008

Absolutely stunning photos! I don't know what else to say... :bigthumb:

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SkyKing

· #3 · Jul 17, 2008

"You people" are going to have to show me the ropes next year, that trail look spooky to me...:mecry:
What can I say, I am a noob... And, on top of that, I did roll a truck a few years back...3 rolls...:boohoo:

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woody

Discussion Starter · #4 · Jul 17, 2008

group one is safely down and in Ouray.....GREAT bunch of folks, really enjoyed everyone!

More pics up in the gallery...here are a couple fav's...

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Sean K.

· #5 · Jul 17, 2008

Cool. Glad to see it opened in time for Summit.

Sean

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4RnrJ

· #6 · Jul 17, 2008

It opened about 2 hours before it needed to for us to have runs on it. Sadly, Poughkeepsie is opened all the way through, but I think we can still reach the wall.

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FJ FunJunkie

· #7 · Jul 17, 2008

4RnrJ said:
Sadly, Poughkeepsie is opened all the way through, but I think we can still reach the wall.

Did you mean isn't??
See you 740 am folks in the morning for the BEAR!!:clap:

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GoISU

· #8 · Jul 17, 2008

Just got back to the Hot Springs Inn from the Black Bear run. Thanks a lot Woody for such an excellent job leading/spotting/photographing! As a first time mountain wheeler from the flatlands of Illinois Black Bear was one hell of a way to start off Summit! The wife took a ton of pics that we will post up when we get home. Being the first "group" to go over the mountain in "08 was awesome! We hit the trail at 7am and we could still see the tracks from the bulldozer that was clearing the trail yesterday. We took Ophir back to the Million Dollar Road and then into Ouray. Awesome time!!

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seal13il

· #9 · Jul 17, 2008

4RnrJ said:
It opened about 2 hours before it needed to for us to have runs on it. Sadly, Poughkeepsie is opened all the way through, but I think we can still reach the wall.

Poughkeepsie is not green all the way!, I got there on my own (by misteak) with the wife, 2 rubicons got stuck i went a bit a head till i hit walls of snow beds.......this is as of July 17th 15:00.

some beautiful crossings though...:rocker:

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Cadaver

· #10 · Jul 18, 2008 (Edited)

Thanks for the guide Woody!

As another one of the "first to run Black Bear" team this is what it looks like from the FJC when trying to negotiate a switchback. Nothing to see but blue sky and Telluride a couple thousand feet below. This trail is the icon of Colorado Offroading.... I did it... now I need to remove the seat cover from my a$$.