13,000+ Feet Up in the San Juans Mountains | Colorado ZR2s | Episode 2

[Music] [Music] after a good night's rest we woke up early with the Sun as we wanted to have a head start with all the trails we had planned today that way we would be able to get to Camp earlier this afternoon we hit the road to get over to our first trail head of the day Red Mountain Pass we made a quick pit stop to check out this very well preserved mine the Yankee girl mine was one of the great silver and gold producers within the Red Mountain Mining District unlike most mines in the San Juans this one is very unique in the fact that it was a vertical shaft mine with a hoist house that housed the equipment used to lower the miners and raise the gold and silver ores we continued our climb up Red Mountain Pass passing along some old snow that still remained from the winter and unknowingly about to be welcomed with some breathtaking views w [Music] we crossed over the million dooll Highway making our way over to our next Trail on the route hope your pass [Music] a [Music] [Music] well after a fun day of Wheeling we have found a beautiful campsite to stay at tonight uh we pulled in very early more so than we've ever done before uh we're pulling in around right now the time is around 12:30 1:00 in the afternoon and that's because there is a lot of people camping this weekend uh today is a Saturday and everywhere we've gone there's been just non-stop people camping um so that's why we ended up trying to get into a camp spot early so we can secure one and we secured a pretty nice one so we're just going to hang out we're actually going to eat lunch now and uh just enjoy the views of this amazing campsite [Music] [Music] [Music] with another great night of rest we stopped in the town of toride to top off on fuel fuel as we hadn't filled up since the start of our adventure in Lake City we made our way through the town over to what would end up being our favorite Trail on the entire trip imagine pass [Music] [Music] [Music] along the path you will see remains of many structures that remind you of the rich mining history of the San Juans if you're enjoying the video so far make sure to leave a like And subscribe if you aren't these videos take me a ton of hours to make and would greatly appreciate the support [Music] [Music] this was an optional line that you could take on the way up that offered a bit more of a challenging line you know around here we like to take those harder routes [Laughter] [Music] I think you got to take it at more of an angle yeah stop let's reposition [Music] well we have officially reached the top of Imaging pass and the views up here at 13,000 ft are absolutely breathtaking hopefully you can hear me over the very windy time that is up here it's probably 20 30 m hour gusts so unfortunately no drone shots but check out this View [Music] after taking in all the views at the top it was time to begin our descent boy our regrets made when putting your camera down to record when you got a another Hill to climb at 13,000 ft of elevation it's no joke [Music] [Music] well we just pit stopped on our way down to stop for lunch cuz it is lunchtime and we were both getting pretty hungry so we stopped at this kind of really nice lookoff Point kind of overlooking the mountains there and uh just to just so you guys aware just just the Carnage that's happening around us these trails are absolutely no joke so behind me we got a K5 Blazer where you can see the rear axle is completely snapped and he lost a wheel and then further down the hill there's an FJ Cruiser down there that they're doing repairs to the front wheel maybe a broken tire rod or something like that so these trails are no joke there are a lot of abuse on the vehicles that's why it's always important to carry spare parts and tools [Music] woo yikes so there is a second option and we're going to see Richard take it now there's a bridge but in true Mandy fashion we really got to take the hard line let's go check out that damage I'm not sure where Nicole got the damage report because there is absolutely it sounded like there was some serious damage there is absolutely no damage to the rear bumper of the truck [Music] some goopy goop mud [Music] [Music] we still had a lot of daylight left after finishing Imaging pass so we decided to check out this nearby Trail Governor basin [Music] [Music] good you want to go more yeah the wheel well this is kind of our next obstacle we're looking at and uh I'm sure the camera doesn't show it but it's severely off camber I would say that's probably easily 20 to 24° off camber and then you have to navigate this really Rocky section where the Rocks aren't really in the great spots cuz some of the easier lines you have big rocks in the between which are probably going to catch uh the rear diff which we don't want uh Richard already said he's 100% wants to turn around uh he's not really used to this type of extreme off-roading which I respect we've already done some pretty fun stuff already so don't want to push him out of and don't want to push anybody that I off-road with too far out of their comfort zone so we're probably GNA turn back around and do the obstacle you just saw us come down again but in reverse [Music] [Music] [Music] well after a very long day of off-roading and some amazing scenery uh after we kind of got off the trails we started hunting for Camp spot and every Camp spot we pulled up to it was taken by somebody so we've been on the hunt now for about 2 hours for a camp spot and this was literally our last resort and we were able to stumble upon it and secure it not the most grand Camp spot in the world but I show you why I'm pretty sure why this Camp spot wasn't taken so if you look behind me you can see that is the road to get into this Camp spot and that is about a 20° angle of roll in order to get into this Camp spot let alone on that side there's a bunch of big rocks that you have to kind of crawl over so I think the angle of to get into this campsite deters a lot of people so we were able to get it not the grandest camp spot in the world and uh sorry we didn't film the entrance of the camp spot we were we were dead tired cuz we've been like I said we've been searching for a camp spot for about 2 hours now uh but we'll when we leave in the morning we'll definitely make sure to uh record that cuz in the morning we are splitting off from Richard we're going back home and then he's uh he's going his own way so but still kind of a beautiful area when you look around past the trees [Music] [Music] the next morning we said our goodbyes and had a few miles to head down the trail before getting to Asphalt thank you guys for watching the video if you like the video make sure to leave a like And subscribe for more off-roading and overlanding content and we'll see you guys in the next video [Music]