2014 COBDR - Hagerman Pass
2014 COBDR - Hagerman Pass, elevation 11,925 ft (3,635 m), is a high mountain pass that crosses the continental divide in the Rocky Mountains of central Colorado in the United States.
The pass was named for James J. Hagerman, builder of the Colorado Midland Railroad. The Colorado Midland railroad crossed the continental divide through one of two tunnels (initially the Hagerman Tunnel, later the Busk-Ivanhoe Tunnel at lower altitude) near the top of Hagerman pass. It traverses the Sawatch Range west of Leadville, connecting the headwaters of the Arkansas River on the east with the upper valley of the Fryingpan River above Basalt, in the basin of the Colorado River.
The pass is traversed by an unimproved road that is passable only with four-wheel drive vehicles, bicycles, ATVs, or on foot. Two-wheel drive vehicles will find it difficult due to some stream crossings and rocky sections. It is open from approximately late May through the arrival of the first heavy snow in mid or late autumn. The road has occasionally been blocked by fallen trees.
Hagerman Pass 4wd
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1997 XJ Climbing Hagerman Pass - CO BDR Trip 2017
Footage from our 2017 trip along the Colorado Backroad Discovery Route. This was on Hagerman Pass heading up from Pitkin.
Offroad Leadville North East Mining District Colorado
Taking my 1999 Jeep Grand Cherokee off road in the Leadville mining district, My daughter and Girlfriend were along for the ride. 2015
Hagerman Pass and Frying Pan Road in July
This route takes us from Turquoise Lake near Leadville over a fun little four wheel drive pass above timberline then down the Frying Pan River on a nice windy paved road to Basalt.
Alpine Tunnel Trail - July, 2012
This was filmed with my iPhone 4 through my Jeep's windshield as I was leaving the Alpine Tunnel parking area on July 24, 2012. The sun was rising over the mountains and unfortunately I was getting some reflections of contents on the dash which I didn't notice at the time. Plus the camera does shake as it's not a smooth trail.
Still this is a good video showing the current conditions of the 12 minute drive from the parking area to the near start of the trail. As you'll see there are not a lot of places to pass another vehicle.
Note the split rock at about the 8:00 minute mark as there is a photo in the restored station house that shows this same rock back 100 plus years ago! What amazing engineering it was to build this rail line without modern techniques, and today be able to drive it! My thanks to all have made this possible to see in person with restoration and upkeep.
American Southwest (#08): Maroon Bells Wilderness, Colorado
Aspen ... Prospectors who had missed out on Leadville's bonanza climbed Independence Pass and went down into a valley along the Roaring Fork in 1879. They found silver float almost immediately and set up a tent camp they called Ute City. In the spring of 1880, promoter, town surveyor, and future mayor Clark Wheeler came to camp. He renamed the place Aspen before returning to Leadville, where his tales of the new camp began a rush to purchase town plots he had ready to sell.
But the glowing review of the camp was no promoter's exaggeration. Lode silver was found in numerous places on Aspen, Red, and Smuggler Mountains. Some mines produced staggering amounts; in 1883, a bedroom-sized chamber in the Enima Mine produced $500,000 alone. That year the country's largest ore body - 140 feet across - was discovered in the Compromise Mine. The Denver & Rio Grande Railroad reached Aspen from Glenwood Springs in 1887, followed a year later by the Colorado Midland, which came from Leadville through the Hagerman Tunnel. Railroads made silver mining much more profitable, because they significantly reduced transportation costs. In 1884, before the railroads, $3.5 million worth of silver was produced. In 1888, that figure rose to $7 million. A year later it approached $10 million.
Aspen basked in the prosperity. It installed the state's first electric streetlights. Its eight thousand citizens could eat in posh restaurants, entertain guests in the opulent Hotel Jerome, enjoy the refinement of a lavish opera house, and take a Bathing Train to the warm waters at Glenwood Springs. Then came 1893, the repeal of the Sherman Act, and the precipitous drop in silver's value.
Although Aspen was seriously wounded by the Silver Crash, it did not completely collapse as many silver towns did. Miners took wage cuts and Aspen, however tentatively, held on. In fact, one-sixth of all the silver in the United States produced between 1894 and 1918 came from Aspen. In 1894, the Smuggler Mine produced a nugget of 93 percent pure silver and weighing 2,060 pounds. After 1918, however, Aspen came very close to becoming a ghost town. Its primary appeal was to summer visitors who enjoyed its fishing streams and hiking trails.
The Gunnison Tunnel: 100 years
Marc Catlin, manager of the Uncompahgre Valley Water Users Association (Montrose, Colorado) recites the history of the tunnel and how it has contributed to the culture and economy of the area. Beautiful historic photos.
Motorcycle ride minturn, co to leadville PART 2
This video was uploaded from an Android phone.
My 2019 Leadville, Colorado Pack Burro Race
Here's an edited down version of about the first half of my 15 mile Burro race at Leadville., taken with a Sony cam mounted on my packsaddle. Sadly, I seemed to have somehow lost my other video camera battery, and in that we're trying to race, I didn't search too long through my saddle bags for it. So, my 2nd half of the race wasn't videoed.
Despite being out of shape from not being able to run for two months in recovering from surgery, my Burro, Taz, managed to dig in hard, and got us to the finish line in 7th place out of about 62 racers.
Midland Trail Colorado
A great Colorado day riding the Midland Trail near Buena Vista
Zion Canyoneering
Colorado Mountain College trip to Zion National Park, Utah. April 2014.
2014 Mount Elbert Hike
Mount Elbert, 14,433 FT
4th of JUL 2014
By way of the Northeast Ridge. 4,700 FT elevation gain 9 MI round trip.
— at Mount Elbert.
2:58 - yes...that was a group of people singing God Bless America...being 4th of JUL, that was really neat...
Parked at the lower parking lot (b/c wasn't driving a 4x4), and started walking up the 4x4 road. Luckily got a hitch up the 1.8 MI 4x4 road and back down with Helen (saved us 3.6 MI and about 1K FT climb). Also ended up hiking with her - good thing too b/c she brought lots of maps.
Musical thanks to Comhaltas #302 for providing Isaac Alderson playing Paddy Fahy's/Gorman's and Ronan Greene playing Lad O'Byrne's Hornepipe under Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial 2.5.
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Windsor Lake Trail | Colorado
Took a day trip hike up to Windsor Lake in Colorado. Although it was a little cold and windy, it was a beautiful day.
I'll be posting videos, covering my whole trip.
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RUSH Working Man ascending Continental Divide Hagerman Pass Colorado (1 of 2)
At the very end of the video I just about shit my pants because I have a stock vehicle and as you can see came upon quite a nasty obstacle in the road!! It took me 10 minutes out of the vehicle to determine my course of action, and then two attempts to make it and I somehow managed to get over with my oil pan intact!! It was the evening before the RUSH concert in Denver and I had to get back in time for the show!! I had already negotiated miles and miles of road that was nearly beyond the capabilities of my Ford Escape, including a few spots almost as bad as this, as well as a flooded intersection that I used a stick to determine the depth was navigable and HOPED the base was solid enough not to sink! Made it! Turning back was pretty much NOT an option!!
Ironically, Neil Peart's latest newsletter chronicling his own shunpiking shows he recently had some similar issues during some recent travels between shows!! Like Neil, I also came upon some flooded roads, be luckily neither of us had to turn back and renegotiate the long road of obstacles behind us nor got stuck!!!
(Drive to summit is in another video on my channel)
Sorry for the glare, I'm not about to spend big bucks right now on A/V goodies, I just use rubber bands to attach my camera to the back of my rear view mirror, press record, and drive!!! If you are not satisfied, I will refund your purchase price and pay return shipping!!
Down Cottonwood Pass, Colorado
Recorded on August 9, 2009 using a Flip Video camcorder.
Four-wheeling Wilkerson Pass Colorado
Utv - Arctic cat trail
Colorado trail- off of highway 24 before Wilkerson pass
Timberline Lake 2014
Hiking to Timberline Lake with my Dad.
Tincup Pass Tincup, Colorado Part 2
This is Part 2 of our trip up Tincup Pass. This one has us leaving St Elmo and reaching the summit of Tincup pass. Please stay tuned for part 3.
Alpine Tunnel and Williams Pass ride Colorado August 2014
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