From the Aspen Daily News
April 30, 2015
I am truly disappointed this was on my Bucket List and I had posted on this site that I was going this year!
You cant get to the Crystal Mill from Crested Butte going north over Schofield Pass!! (Story from local newspaper below)
A massive rockslide has destroyed part of a U.S. Forest Service road that serves as a popular jeeping route over Schofield Pass between Marble and Crested Butte.
The No. 314 road, near the Devil’s Punchbowl in Gunnison County, is utilized in the summertime by jeepers, dirt and mountain bikers, and hikers.
Already a rutted and rocky path, the recent slide punched four large holes in the road and covered what is left in enormous boulders, effectively closing it from any use beyond walking. The damage is about a mile past the ghost town of Crystal, but it doesn’t affect the route through Lead King Basin.
Glenwood Springs native Tays Anderson told the Aspen Daily News this week that he was traveling up the road on a 4-wheeler with his father about two weeks ago when they came upon the slide.
“There are large chunks of the road missing,” he said. “I don’t think a 4-wheeler, or possibly even a dirt bike, could get past there. It’s impressive.”
But few others were aware of the slide.
Gunnison County’s public works director Marlene Crosby said in an email that her department didn’t know about the slide, and staff at the Forest Service’s Aspen-Sopris Ranger District hadn’t heard of it, either.
One of the holes in the road is roughly 15 feet wide, 9 feet long, and around 4 feet deep. Some boulders on the road are around 5 feet in diameter, and others, larger than vehicles, lay just off the road. :surprise
April 30, 2015
I am truly disappointed this was on my Bucket List and I had posted on this site that I was going this year!
You cant get to the Crystal Mill from Crested Butte going north over Schofield Pass!! (Story from local newspaper below)
A massive rockslide has destroyed part of a U.S. Forest Service road that serves as a popular jeeping route over Schofield Pass between Marble and Crested Butte.
The No. 314 road, near the Devil’s Punchbowl in Gunnison County, is utilized in the summertime by jeepers, dirt and mountain bikers, and hikers.
Already a rutted and rocky path, the recent slide punched four large holes in the road and covered what is left in enormous boulders, effectively closing it from any use beyond walking. The damage is about a mile past the ghost town of Crystal, but it doesn’t affect the route through Lead King Basin.
Glenwood Springs native Tays Anderson told the Aspen Daily News this week that he was traveling up the road on a 4-wheeler with his father about two weeks ago when they came upon the slide.
“There are large chunks of the road missing,” he said. “I don’t think a 4-wheeler, or possibly even a dirt bike, could get past there. It’s impressive.”
But few others were aware of the slide.
Gunnison County’s public works director Marlene Crosby said in an email that her department didn’t know about the slide, and staff at the Forest Service’s Aspen-Sopris Ranger District hadn’t heard of it, either.
One of the holes in the road is roughly 15 feet wide, 9 feet long, and around 4 feet deep. Some boulders on the road are around 5 feet in diameter, and others, larger than vehicles, lay just off the road. :surprise