Ok, let's continue day four.
We worked on the bikes for a little while and had a late start. Off to Yankee Boy Basin. The trail start getting hard about 2/3 of the way and it started to rain. While we waited for 7 jeeps to come down from the steepest area the guys had a talk with me. Sam had a fall a few hundred yards back and we didn't know it. He was hurting. Shoulder and back pain. Bike was fine. He said the bike just went flying off the trail and he had to ride off trail to get it back to the area in which we waited. John said the trail was hard enough and he would wait for us to come back from the top of Yankee. So, it really looked like I could go on my own ( I have been there 6 times already) or we could just go back down and take the detour to Imogene. After waiting for the jeeps and telling them that they just had a couple of turns to get to the top, they seemed a little more open to it.
http://dcasler.com/2011/06/18/yankee-boy-basin-getting-there-from-ouray-colorado/
They did just fine. I do have to say that the trails are very eroded this year and are harder to navigate thru. The top of Yankee was beautiful. The clouds parted and the sun came out. Back down to the Imogene detour and...the bridge has yellow tape and rotten boards; not vehicle friendly. You know what else isn't vehicle friendly ? A river ! Sam took a walk over the rocks to see if we could make it. The river was running very strong due to the rains. We walked the bridge and decided that was the way to go. I wouldn't trust a jeep over it but a bike, no problem. We restored the tape once we passed over.
We worked on the bikes for a little while and had a late start. Off to Yankee Boy Basin. The trail start getting hard about 2/3 of the way and it started to rain. While we waited for 7 jeeps to come down from the steepest area the guys had a talk with me. Sam had a fall a few hundred yards back and we didn't know it. He was hurting. Shoulder and back pain. Bike was fine. He said the bike just went flying off the trail and he had to ride off trail to get it back to the area in which we waited. John said the trail was hard enough and he would wait for us to come back from the top of Yankee. So, it really looked like I could go on my own ( I have been there 6 times already) or we could just go back down and take the detour to Imogene. After waiting for the jeeps and telling them that they just had a couple of turns to get to the top, they seemed a little more open to it.
http://dcasler.com/2011/06/18/yankee-boy-basin-getting-there-from-ouray-colorado/
They did just fine. I do have to say that the trails are very eroded this year and are harder to navigate thru. The top of Yankee was beautiful. The clouds parted and the sun came out. Back down to the Imogene detour and...the bridge has yellow tape and rotten boards; not vehicle friendly. You know what else isn't vehicle friendly ? A river ! Sam took a walk over the rocks to see if we could make it. The river was running very strong due to the rains. We walked the bridge and decided that was the way to go. I wouldn't trust a jeep over it but a bike, no problem. We restored the tape once we passed over.
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