You do such a good job of being present on trips even when you know you have a drive after or are busy. Or at least you appear to be present and enjoying the experience. That's impressive.
Man that footage gave me the chills. I have a story (quick one). I live near Grand Junction, Colo and I used to traverse back over to the Denver area often. Winter of 2011, I left home headed over the hill at around 7 pm, I knew about the storm but it was supposed to be a quick hitter. Cruising, making killer time and all the sudden at about Avon, it starts dumping, from 80 mph to 5-10 maybe, instant almost white out. Took 2 hours to get to Avon, took the same time from Avon to Vail 2nd exit with a gate down now! I'm first car in line and just had to wait. 2 1/2 hours later they open the gate and I get to make first tracks on a freshly plowed road however its still dumping. Erie-ist travel I've ever had climbing up Vail pass alone at night with nobody driving the other way because of closure in Idaho Springs. The footage you have just reminded me of that trip and it was spooky! Awesome snapshots as usual Mike, thanks for the killer upload. Apologies for lots of words in story.
Yeah very similar to mine, saw now cars for hours, about an hour before I hit the road closed, then nothing for about 2 hours on the way back, was wild for sure. Had a similar experience coming back from Moab last year, but had two other friends and their rigs with me that time. Something definitely adds to the spook factor being miles away from anyone though plowing fresh powder.
This is by far one of my favorite videos period. I love that area of Colorado. I lost my dad a couple of years back and this is one place he and I spent a lot of time at wheeling and enjoying the area with him. Never thought of going in the sleet and snow but awesome video!
Love Telluride! Best snowboarding ever! Been going there for decades to snowboard and been in a few crazy blizzards....ish gets REAL crazy sometimes. Still worth the drive and looks like you guys did great out there.
Wow! The pucker factor coming down Mineral Creek in the slushy snow has to be high! Nice vid. I live in Montrose and love watching people document their rides in the San Juan’s.
Dude, this has gotta be the sketchiest snowy videos I've seen from u so far! Especially when u were high up on that cliff face and panned the camera to look down at the valley below... Not gonna lie that part gave me a bit of anxiety just sitting here in my living room watching it! Lol
I love videos of snow wheeling with friends testing the elements. Thanks for the content Mike and I was just poking fun about the Whiteclaw from the last video no hard feelings pal. Be safe and God bless
Yeah that snow business is no joke. The risk of sliding sideways off a mountain is something you can’t appreciate until your behind the wheel in a situation like that. Cool video man.
Loved the video as usual. Awesome content. Can't imagine doing that white-knuckle driving like you did in the middle of the night. Good gravy. Keep up the excellent work, my friend. Looking forward to the next one! 👊
I did Imogene pass back in August in a mostly stock TJ with a busted rear shock and about 150 or so pounds of camping gear in the back, Telluride to Ouray, and a 2.5 L,Piece of Cake!🤣🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Great video as usual! I was in Ouray and Mineral Creek about a week after you were there and the weather was great! In fact it was quite hot so very interesting to see the snow conditions y’all encountered! Keep up the great content!
I love driving in the snow offroad its a great challenge and fun, I live in Mammoth Lake CA, we get tons of snow ❄ every year I hate the cold but love the snow.
@@LastLineOfDefense The footage when you were coming down and looking over that cliff side. Whew. I get it, and wouldn’t choose to do something like that. I’ll live through you in that sense. Stay safe!
episodes when it gets gnarly and stuff are probably more tiring and scary but it makes for the best videos - because of the little adventure we can watch
woo been waiting to see this since bronco vid! excited to see gladiator content too since your so much different then the offroad dedicated channels mindset :)
We were in Ouray in September when the storm came through. We had a Jeep reserved for 2 days and all rentals were cancelled. The snow was beautiful. We will do some trails next time but not in the snow lol. Great vid !
Hope you read this comment man! Long time watcher, but I usually don't do the comment section thing. I think your diversity of videos is terrific! As a camping/gun/gear/offroading/overlanding prepper texan, I love them all. Don't listen to the purists complaining one way or another. You and your passions are the core of the reason for our viewership. Just keep doing videos on the things that interest you, and that will be successful. Worrying about pleasing the RU-vid masses will lead to you straying from what you like, and may cause you to resent the RU-vid content creator life and the associated hard work. I'd love you to get more into homesteading as well, I think you'd dig it! Just keep being you and people with strict preferences with follow the genre series they enjoy. You do well with categorizing your content. Keep it up man! A happy content creator makes for a better work/life balance.
Wow.. absolutely spectacular, I can only dream and hope one day to explore somewhere as rad and epic like this man! Documenting it here on my YT Channel so I can look back in the years and remember the memories. We're planning Utah and Colorado next summer coming down from Canada!! Thanks for inspiring!!
Heading to the mountains this week for an elk hunt. The chains will be in the jeep for our 1.5 hour jeep trail ride in. Snow makes an easy trail interesting
I was with a friend up there a month ago. He proposed to his now fiance there on Poser Rock, but it too was smoky and drizzling. They didn't seem to care!
Ouray Brewery - I ate there last month and sat at that exact same table. I got the Cluck Norris but didn't have the courage to add the Extreme Justice to it. Food was good.
I plow in a tandem near you, and agree if you don't have to go out in the snow don't do it. I even get scared out of my mind plowing at 8000 ft on some of our mountain roads. I've been loaded 55000 pounds sliding backwards down hills, 360's, aint no fun. Glad ya made it home safe.
Haha, except that my rear flex tucks the tire all the way into the wheelwell and to the full travel of the shock (due to the added droop achieved from my archive garage hammer hangers). Technically, and literally, there is no way to achieve more flex than you're seeing (without relocating the upper shock mount bracket and getting longer travel shocks, which would also require wheel spacers in the rear). Also, Tacomas don't have rear sway bars. ;)
@@LastLineOfDefense ah that stinks well looks like thats what the land cruiser is for then😄 and yeah I always forget that they have a different leaf pack rear end then most Toyota suvs I've built up..
Haha I typically get 'Asian Fit' sunglasses, cause legit, my small face, haha. It's actually a thing. Having said that though, the wide angle lens does distort all that stuff to look bigger than it does in real life.
