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A capable driver with a vehicle in good mechanical condition will do just fine on the trails we drive during our Ouray trip. Driving Black Bear Pass demands that our vehicle is in good mechanical condition. That means no vehicles with an engine that floods or stalls. That means a vehicle with a clutch and transmission in very good condition. If your vehicle tends to pop out of gear you may want to skip Black Bear Pass.
As we begin our decent on Black Bear, as we drive around the water fall, each driver will be instructed to grab the lowest gear their vehicle has and then stay in that gear until we are around the water fall. Changing gears on this part of the trail is discouraged and is dangerous. We drive this part of the trail one vehicle at a time.
If the group decides that on Sunday we will be driving Poughkeepsie Gulch, then I will suggest right now that we do so only if there are one or two very well equiped cruisers in the group with drivers willing to help others over or around the obstacle. Poughkeepsie Gulch followed by Corkscrew Gulch makes for an awesome late afternoon end to a day of wheeling.
I don't intend to scare anyone who will be wheeling with us on trails during the Ouray trip. But, on some trails, in some spots, the trail will require 100% of the driver's attention and focus.
A capable driver with a vehicle in good mechanical condition will do just fine on the trails we drive during our Ouray trip. Driving Black Bear Pass demands that our vehicle is in good mechanical condition. That means no vehicles with an engine that floods or stalls. That means a vehicle with a clutch and transmission in very good condition. If your vehicle tends to pop out of gear you may want to skip Black Bear Pass.
As we begin our decent on Black Bear, as we drive around the water fall, each driver will be instructed to grab the lowest gear their vehicle has and then stay in that gear until we are around the water fall. Changing gears on this part of the trail is discouraged and is dangerous. We drive this part of the trail one vehicle at a time.
If the group decides that on Sunday we will be driving Poughkeepsie Gulch, then I will suggest right now that we do so only if there are one or two very well equiped cruisers in the group with drivers willing to help others over or around the obstacle. Poughkeepsie Gulch followed by Corkscrew Gulch makes for an awesome late afternoon end to a day of wheeling.
I don't intend to scare anyone who will be wheeling with us on trails during the Ouray trip. But, on some trails, in some spots, the trail will require 100% of the driver's attention and focus.
- or do some trails on the way home like Old Monarch Pass or Hayden Pass etc.
