2024 San Juan Trip, the red bastards first time out

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Interesting that another mine the Golden Fleece that sits above Lake San Cristobal started some of the gold rush. It produced about 1.4 million in gold and silver telluride minerals that were inter grown with uranium making for a very strange deposit. It is the only mine in the San Juan’s that had telluride minerals. Oddly there were none in the mines at the poorly named Telluride or at the very appropriately named Silverton. The biggest goldmines in Colorado were at Cripple Creek and were all Telluride minerals. Native tellurium is deadly btw just breathing a few specs can be very bad. Not so bad when wrapped up with gold and silver and some other elements

and there it is, telluride isn't to hell you ride simplified, its derived from tellurium, I guess that even tho the ski resort saved the town, its current occupants arent all kind to motorized recreation, still a super cool place

 

[ThatGuy]

Hell the miners still working at the sunny side and idarado mines in Silverton and the pandora tunnel in telluride (cutsey blue aliens not included) were tougher than shirt. Soon as the tourists cleared out and the sun went down let the bar fights begin!

 

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they were a different breed

we 4 wheel and ride motorcycles up them

they carved them by foot, animal, then tram and train that they built without pneumatic and milwaukee 18v

we bitch about a 40 hour week at 20/hr and floors we might slip on

they went 1k deep into a gobbleforsaken mountain without safety equipment in the dead of winter for .05 a day

as mentioned earlier, read things like the tomboy bride, we are boys, they were men

 

[ThatGuy]

and there it is, telluride isn't telluride simplified, its derived from tellurium, I guess that even tho the ski resort saved the town, its current occupants arent all kind to motorized recreation, still a super cool place

They are all cool towns. Back in the day we avoided Ouray cause it was too upscale but would drive between lake city and Silverton and telluride for dinner and such. Had my truck stall out at 1 am on the west side of engineer pass just below the summit. (That narrow bit). Crawled under it and someone before me had packed the area between the skid plates and the catalytic converters with mud that was baked to adobe. Spent an hour chiseling it out luckily it wasn’t raining. By the end I felt like the ghost of every dead miner in the area had visited me. Never so glad to get a truck started and get the hell out of there

 

[ThatGuy]

they were a different breed

we 4 wheel and ride motorcycles up them

they carved them by foot, animal, then tram and train that they built without pneumatic and milwaukee 18v

we bitch about a 40 hour week at 20/hr and floors we might slip on

they went 1k deep into a gobbleforsaken mountain without safety equipment in the dead of winter for .05 a day

as mentioned earlier, read things like the tomboy bride, we are boys, they were men

They were crazy ass men!

 

[relentless044]

They are all cool towns. Back in the day we avoided Ouray cause it was too upscale but would drive between lake city and Silverton and telluride for dinner and such. Had my truck stall out at 1 am on the west side of engineer pass just below the summit. (That narrow bit). Crawled under it and someone before me had packed the area between the skid plates and the catalytic converters with mud that was baked to adobe. Spent an hour chiseling it out luckily it wasn’t raining. By the end I felt like the ghost of every dead miner in the area had visited me. Never so glad to get a truck started and get the hell out of there

it always rains there, I don't mean to demean travis as he is a far more talented motorcycle rider/racer and better soul than I, but he kinda mentioend that the light drizzle of rain was rain. we both know that when nature decides to unleash up there, its not a drizzle, its if you don't have high ground rip. and I'm all about it, when my time comes, I always say, I don't mean to be negative or to dampen the mood, but I want my ashes released above lake como on hurricane

this place is special to me

 

[relentless044]

They are all cool towns. Back in the day we avoided Ouray cause it was too upscale but would drive between lake city and Silverton and telluride for dinner and such. Had my truck stall out at 1 am on the west side of engineer pass just below the summit. (That narrow bit). Crawled under it and someone before me had packed the area between the skid plates and the catalytic converters with mud that was baked to adobe. Spent an hour chiseling it out luckily it wasn’t raining. By the end I felt like the ghost of every dead miner in the area had visited me. Never so glad to get a truck started and get the hell out of there

I love them all

but silverton and lake city feel like the most welcoming places on earth to me, aka where I belong

 

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perspective

 

[ThatGuy]

I love them all

but silverton and lake city feel like the most welcoming places on earth to me, aka where I belong

Couldn’t agree more. And you know when it’s really raining in those mountains cause you’re worried a lot more about the lightning than getting drenched !

 

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Can you imagine living year round in Animas Forks? We'd all cry like little babies.

 

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Can you imagine living year round in Animas Forks? We'd all cry like little babies.

and the 25 foot of snow they used to get......... porn wasn't even a thing man holy shiat

 

[ThatGuy]

and the 25 foot of snow they used to get......... porn wasn't even a thing man holy shiat

It’s the avalanches that will make you lose it and have to change pants. Tried to ski up Cunningham gulch to highland Mary lakes but was snowing so hard that we left (ran away terrified ) and went to stay with friends in telluride where it snowed 6 feet overnight. Skied our brains out there instead. But trying to sky from howardsville to animas forks in the winter would be like a death wish

 

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so my times in these mountains go back 20 years now, because of the man in this photo.

my dad was high school buds with this mans nephew, that nephews old man is in the fj40 in the foreground, everytime I see the man in this then new f250 6.9 idi doing the switchbacks on black bear pass because they didn't give a single ufck, its a great big hug. when old man bob speaks, you listen, when old man bob gives you a book to read, you read it

 

[ThatGuy]

so my times in these mountains go back 20 years now, because of the man in this photo.

my dad was high school buds with this mans nephew, that nephews old man is in the fj40 in the foreground, everytime I see the man in this then new f250 6.9 idi doing the switchbacks on black bear pass because they didn't give a single ufck, its a great big hug. when old man bob speaks, you listen, when old man bob gives you a book to read, you read it View attachment 34374

The 1970-1980 era f-150s ruled!

Never owned one but had a couple for work. Awesome vehicles. Reason I liked my 1983 Toyota pick up so much is that it was a miniature copy of an F-150. No friggen coil springs to be found