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Lake San Cristobal near Lake City. If you keep going up that road along the lake you will get to Alpine Loop. And if you go to the left towards Slumgillian you will see the site where Alfred Pucker...you know.
The Engineer part is fine, but the Mineral Creek part is not. OP - Do not take your stock rig down or up Mineral Creek. Take Engineer into Animas Forks, then up California, then down Corkscrew and into Ouray.
And I shouldn't have to say it, but no Black Bear for you.
Also if you end up in Silverton, the Mining Museum is fantastic!
The Fun Treks Book, their GPS tracks, and the Nat Geo paper map will do you right.
Air down, hold on, pay attention, and have fun.
Fishing license you can buy in walmart.
What kind of rod you have? I only fly fish.
Best overall rigging for colorado is classic san juan worm as attractant fly and rs2. It's all in the proper weighting.
You can try spinning in Blue mesa, but spinning us not my forte so I can not speak to it. Taylor river is tricky as it has pools and shallow runs, depth always changing. Hermosa creek is nice in Lake City. Arkansas river is great fishing near Granite.
My advice try not to pack to much in one trip.
And on a cautious note. Hwy50 was closed for whole summer niw with I70 being closed due to mudslude dot reopend 50 as one lane road. It can affect gas stations in the area. Bring gas can.
Good overall rod for trout fishing is 5wt 9'.
No,i didn't mean how much gear you bring. That's up to your prefference.
But you mentioned where you want to go and that was a lot of miles. Mountainous Colorado is tricky, you look on a map it seems really close, but when you start driving those passes it takes time. Besides when you are going from A to B you likely to miss fun stuff in between. I guess I was projecting. Being an avid photographer I like to stop and pause, and look and inhale the beauty. Unfortunately legalization of pot in CO brought different meaning to high. Mountains make you feel high in pure context.
There is nice flyshop in Arvada, Charlie Craven is well known. I use his fly tying book a lot. That pretty much use for my X. Get me to cool streams. Right now we exploring WY fishing.
sounds perfect!If in Telluride, go to the base of Bridal Veil Falls. Fun little trip up the lower portion of BB.
beautiful, where'd ya stay?We just made it to Ouray today, plan on taking Blackbear to Telluride then Imogene/yankee boy basin back to Ouray. View attachment 138259
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Have a wonderful trip. Don't be obsessed with selfies but enjoy yourself and scenery and unwind.
Safe trails
thanks, truly appreciate your knowledge on this!!Oh, one last thing. You moved from sea level not to long ago. Cottonwood pass, for example, 12000 ft, Gunnison is 7700,Leadville 11000. You might want to get little oxygen bottle in walmart.
We were skiing in Ski Cooper and there was a fellow from South Dakota.
He stayed night in Leadville. We stroke a conversation at the yurt and he complained that he felt light-headed. He was doing motorcycle trip around Colorado. Told us about Twin peaks at SD. I offered to stay with him on a way down and later saw an ambulance. I don't know if he was there or just a coincidence.
It still bothers me that I didn't check.
So just a little heads up.
Enjoy enjoy.
thanks! super helpful.We stayed in Ouray, made it to box canyon around 8:30am, did Yankee Boy Basin and Governs Basin then Imogene Pass to Telluride. Made it to Telluride around 2:45pm, drove the strip (good luck finding any parking there (On a Thursday). Refueled, grabbed some snacks and headed south on 145 to Ophir Pass. We made the Summit right at 5:00pm then started the way down and were airing up around an hour later. Went south on 550 to Silverton and ate at the Pink BBQ place, finished up and took 550 north back to Ouray. We were at our Hotel around 8:30pm. We didn’t rush anything and stopped plenty of times for pics.
I would recommend trying to do this during the weekday, it seemed pretty busy even then so I can’t imagine what the weekend would be like.
hail?Telluride parking is off the strip, UNDER some of the buildings.
mineral creek would take you west towards ouray right? as opposed to animas which is more south to silverton?This.
