I like these excursion videos and not only for the views, but for the background information - and what a wealth of information this was! Not as inserts or voiceover but on the go - Colt not only shows it, Colt knows it! Much appreciated! 👍
ONE OF IF NOT THE BEST VIDEO YOU HAVE EVER MADE !!!!!! LOVE THAT THIS IS THE REAL REASON FOR A OFF ROAD VEHICLE. ALL THE OFF ROAD VIDEOS ARE MOSTLY FOR RICH AND YUPPIES WHO JUST WANT TO BRAKE THE 4X4 !!!!! PEOPLE WITH TOO MUCH MONEY ..... PLEASE MAKE MORE OF THIS KIND OF REAL 4X4 VIDEOS !!!!! THE TRUTH !!!!!
My scariest animal encounter was with a moose, well three, I was walking to the end of the road I lived on to catch a ride. And while walking I saw two of the biggest deer I had ever seen, Is what I thought, it was a foggy VT morning, so I worked my way to the far side of the road, and there was a big pond on that side. and then Mama moose came down and let me know she noticed me and wasn't happy to see me. And that's when I tried to keep going down the road side stepping, not letting my guard down, facing her the whole time she took a few steps and grunted, so I stopped and let her gather up the calves and move when she finally felt comfortable, I thought for sure I was going to have to jump in the pond and go underwater to avoid direct contact with her. I was in my mid 20s, when I was 14 I caught a bobcat that my neighbor hit with her car, That thing was fast, but not as scary as the moose.
You're in places we used to do 30 & 40 years ago!! On a summer vacay on our motorcycle, we stayed in Ouray and rented a jeep and went up Engineer and back. After we got home, we bought a CJ7 and 10 years later that same little jeep took us over Cinnamon the day after they opened it ~ in JULY!! Snow banks at least 3 times as high as you saw there. I miss that little jeep that we had for 33 years and I miss those days of adventuring in the mountains!! Thanks for taking us back again for another look, Colt!!!
You have tape, so find a couple of rocks the right diameter slid in from either side, use other rocks as spacers and wrap it with tape to hold all the rocks in place. One of your best videos yet. Love seeing your wife joining you on camera.
After surviving WWII, my grandfather moved his family to the high Rockies. I grew up riding on the tailgate of his early CJ5 on those mountain roads. My father actually owned a blue '87 S-10 that I learned how to wheel in, so this is pure nostalgia for me.
I love the Alpine loop. I’ve been going for about 10 years and just can’t get enough of it. It is a beautiful place and thank you for showing it. If anyone plans to go, please be kind and courteous and take all your trash out and stay on the trail. So millions more can come see this amazing part of American history.
I am 81 now, and Thank You so much for this Video. in the 1970s I worked in that area for the Oil Fields, several different companies, and traveled most of those trails/roads? in a 1971 Renault R16 Hatchback car, before they called those things SUVs.... my home at the time was Dumas, Texas and every chance that I got a Long Weekend, I was gone and used a Week's Vacation to explore those areas... ... again, thanks for making this video.,,,,, a lot of history there....
Thank you for taking us along. I am glad to see that someone has fixed the old shacks to where they can be seen and not torn down. Oh ya, when you pointed out your truck and wife, you said it wrong, "smoking hot wife" is proper term and gets you browny points. 😊😊😊😊😊 words from an long time married old fart.
My mother grew up in Lake City, my wife and I were married at Thoreau’s Cabin on Engineer Pass. This whole area is one of my favorites in the whole state.
I love that area. My dad was born and raised in Silverton . My granddad worked a lot of the mines and My grandparents are buried in the Silverton cemetery and I still have family living there. I feel a crazy connection to that area.
Colt, what a great video. I watch videos to learn about capable rigs to do just this kind of thing. Building and climbing rocks is fun and all....but most of us will never be able to build crawlers. Rigs that can take us to the back roads of America to see the beauty most of us never see. I hope you'll do more videos like this. I'll be along for the ride.
You make awesome videos Colt, but this was on another level. Fantastic!!!!!! Great scenery, wheeling and history lesson all rolled into 1. I'd like to speak for everyone and say more please.
Great video, you and your wife make an excellent team on camera. Makes for a fun and interesting video, looking forward to more of your adventures together.
Colt, you just lost the foot massage by throwing the snow ball, just my opinion. Thank you for this video, my husband and I can't go to those places, but through you and your videos we can. Blessings to you and your wife.
The “step kids rooms” in buildings in the 1800’s that are really small were nurseries for their babies just off the master bedroom . There’s no doors to let heat circulate over there , a window in the room to crack in hot nights for the baby.
Just for accuracy for future posts. you pointed out a mine shaft. actually that was a mine drift, drifts are horizontal and shafts are vertical, thought you might be interested.
My grandparents were partners in a cattle ranch between Lake City and Creede, along Hwy. 149. My family would spend at least one month a year at the ranch until we moved to Del Norte in 1963. I miss the San Juans, especially the smell of the high country in the summer.
We typically spend four to six weeks in Lake City Colorado each summer. Next time on Cinnamon, take the short side trip to Handies Peak. Amazing view and a great 14,000 peak to climb. The restaurant you passed in Lake City is Southern Vittles. Their chicken fried steak is great. Thanks for sharing the video.
In my teens we lived in woodland park Colorado. We used to take Arnold Jeep into the back country behind pike peak near Victor/cripple creek… best time of my life … I live in Michigan now , and wish I was there…. Thanks for sharing….
My relatives walked pushed a handcart from Ohio, through the same region youre in in this video & When I watch or travel off-road trails like your video I always think the amazing tools we have of an actual powered vehicle we sit in with comfortable seats, AC and heat , 4 wheel drive capability with lockers etc & the. Always think of my families journey pushing a cart on foot 1,200 MILES pushing that cart through the terrain your in but without a graded trail. When I see obstacles and tough terrain I always imagine how insane that is to imagine walking that with a cary and your children. . They migrated from England in the mid 1800’s and made it from New York then to Ohio all literaly on foot. I think of how back then they hadn’t seen pictures of America, of the west , there’s no mountains in England , sees rare snow , sea level , they’d of seen nothing but the terraine and views of England & I can’t imagine how they felt seeing what you see in this video, I’d bet they were in utter awe! They joined a hand cart group of Mormon pioneers heading west that were making the journey from Ohio to Utah ON FOOT with 3 daughters between 8 months old and 7 years old. Their hand cart group got a late start spring so they decided to go south 500 miles and through Colorado and the Rockies instead of the route the trail breakers use through Wyoming. Wyoming is much flatter but being in the northern US they thought the snow would hit sooner and harder , going south 500 miles saw slightly warmer temps but hadn’t been travelled by many pioneers & not much info , unfortunately they came to find what we know, that the Rockies is one of the youngest mountain ranges on earth which means much more jagged, steep broken up mountain ranges worse for travel and elevations above most anything in the country, which means colder temps and early snow at elevation much earlier than Wyoming gets. Despite this this group of 75 familes (75 individual hand carts which consisted of 2 wooden wagon wheels , a flat form 4’x5’ with 12” sides and holding all the belongings they could carry . It has a wooden tongue and a handbar cross bar wide enough for 2 adults to hold on to and push/pull essentially benign the horses of a carriage. The kids old enough to walk and help would walk behind and push the cart , toddlers sat in the cart and infants were usually put in a piece of cloth that put them on their moms chest for warmth & less bouncing around. These carts with belongings weighed around 3-400 lbs. i see your rig driving up these trails and covering 80 MILES of tough terrain in a day & then imagine the mindset of my family , to decides we are going to WALK with a hand cart 1,200 MILES with NO cities , villages ,hotels , convince stores , no shelter , the threat of wild predators , to some of the agressive Indian tribes encountered but the weather , time frame & terrain being the most unpredictable and dangerous. You’re racing against winter , if you get caught in it , survival not likely , if you get sick or need to wait , the grouo has to go on and you get left behind which is what happened to my family , a sick baby needed a few days of quiet and rest to down a fever and put them 4 days behind the group catching them in Nebraska when they decided to go through Colorado. Much of their route ended up being trail blazing , literally pushing handcarts over terrain completely natural, bumpy , rocks , logs , terrible for handcarts, pushing though canyons often meant unloading the cart manually up over a rocky pass then pulling the cart up inch by inch. The end 1/3 the journey at high altitudes /low oxygen, much colder temps with a lot of snow , blizzards , inability to start fires when alls wet , Al with no hiking shoes, expeditio gear , no waterproof coats , no all season tents for shelter. The thought of WALKING of beginning that unknown journey , to say ok were leaving right now starting a pushing of a cart by hand from Ohio to Utah through the Rockies , starting in spring knowing you’re walking UNTIL WINTER, knowing about 35-40% of children under 10 dong make it , knowing if u get sick or injured there is NO help, no ambulance comming to get you noones going to carry you and your family back to Ohio ,you get left behind becasue the group has to push to make it knowing they WILL be travelling in winter, just how long being the unknown. Despite that , my great grandparents in their 30’s walked /pushed 1,200 MILES on foot , every single foot of that distance d being walked not riding on a cart but they together dragged that cart through the terrain in your video but with no graded trails and they made it to Salt Lake City Utah by themselves traveling the last 3rd behind the group , a couple from England , new to America navigating and taking trails & forks they were clueless on , managed to get their belongings and daughters to Utah!! When I get home from taking my daughters hiking or when we go wheeling in Moab we’re exhausted end of day , I can’t fathom the toughness , relentlessness , the hope, the fear , the physical strength and endurance & a resolve and love for your family that you want a better life for them SO much you’re willing g to literally carry them 1200 MILES !? Thousands and thousands of people did this and many going on through utah into California even. As a single dad of 3 daughters that are my life , whenever we go wheeling or trail riding I imagine how hard it’d be for the pioneers through the same region. Your video I thought the same and you adding all the footage of the mines just took it home for me , great video and content , you’re living the dream,..congrats and thanks for sharing!
I just wanted to thank you for this segment that you chose to put on here as a little older and with my knees and back and hips I’ll never be able to go up there and take a look at these so it was nice to see it from your perspective and look around at all the beauty thank you
"The smokeshow S10 and the smokeshow wife" How long you had that one on tap, man? Seriously high end dad joke right there. Top quality. Damn fine trail video too!
The adventure videos you've made over the years with your Shanni and others are good and interesting. Fascinating country. Great stuff, great vid. Gooday from Australia.
Colt your misses is a pretty tough cookie making that hike to mineral point in flip flops ,I bet even Frieburger would have put shoes on lol. ps possums are really good to have around the eat ticks and they don't Carry diseases ,the more you know.
My wife and I are fairly new to your channel. This was an absolutely awesome video! Thank you for sharing it from your down to earth point of view. Not that we don't like your other videos, but many, many more like this would be much appreciated!
I did this loop in a rental jeep from Silverton in 1992. Never had been 4 wheeling before that and it was a great time. Best money I ever spent on a rental.
Watching you build and create these awesome vehicles is so cool, but watching you wheel them to places, I can't always drive to is very enjoyable to me. Thanks for taking us along with you both. 😀👍👍💪💪
colt, that was another amazing video of your part of the country. wish i could visit but battling cancer, that makes it difficult for me. i would love tour matts off road,robby lawton, just to name a few, again i can not, so keep doing videos like this . thank you sir!😊❤
I really loved this video. There’s not many people like you around that have absolutely no malice in their heart. Your positivity is infectious. You do these style videos really well too. The background info and views were great. Makes me want to move out there, or at least within a day’s drive.
Ok the sticker high on the post = The Colt Challenge... gotta go there and see if I can jump my ole butt up there and touch it! Great ride, great video!
Great video, I'm saving it to watch on my big screen again. I have never seen country like this. Thank you and wife for doing all this , keep it up and God Bless.
Colt Thank you for the video. I have been visiting the Silverton area for over 40 years. I have been running the trails for about 27 years. It is my happy place. Everytime we decide to go somewhere else for vacation I always end up wishing I was in Silverton. However it has become really popular and running trails isn’t as peaceful as it used to be. But the views are still second to none. Anyway I really enjoyed the video. Thanks.
Colt, thanks for doing this loop! In 1991 My wife and I celebrated our honeymoon at Cascade Creek condos, we rented a Jeep in Silverton and drove from Silverton to Ouray through Animas Forks, it was June 3rd, saw the same walls of snow! We’ve been back numerous times but one of our most favorite trips, was riding double on our Honda Rancher Quad, we packed an overnight bag and stayed at the old Carson Inn B&B we rode into Lake City had a Alfred Packer Burger (if you don’t know his story look it up) we rode back to our truck and trailer over Engineer pass, I love to fly fish so we stopped here and there to fish and eat lunch! If you haven’t been over Stoney Pass, do that sometime, on the eastern side of the pass is the headwaters for the Rio Grande
Thanks for the tour….i’m afraid I will never see that in person but you never know!👍🏼👍🏼…and I can’t believe you let your wife walk around all that dangerous ground in SANDALS…I know it’s none of my business but I have seen some nasty things happen in my days….
Colt, just a note on your commentary in the William Duncan house: it has been extensively restored. Last time I was in it many years ago, the floorboards weren’t safe to walk on, the windows had no glass, and the roof and siding were in a state of great disrepair and pretty much ready to fall off the building. ❤ So nice to see it put back together so nicely. I’ll have to go see it this summer on our annual Jeep week in the San Juan’s. 😊
Great video. Love that area. Wheeled it back in the early 90's when there weren't any SXS' roaring around up there. Dad and I and my BIL's would go down there for a week of "overloading" (before overloading was a thing). We would camp in a new spot every night. Run into Ouray to refill coolers with beer and fuel and food up and go out for another couple days. Mineral Point was a cool road to go across (now it doesn't go through). I have many photos from our trips down there. Poughkeepsie is a fun road too. Black Bear is a great road but the driver has to pay close attention on the switchbacks.
I know you have spent much of your youth exploring this part of the country. So have I. But I bet my time as a youth pre dates yours by a few years. Back when we first visited Animas Forks in the early 70’s, the William Dunkin House still had old newspapers for “wallpaper.” Did a family reunion back in July of 2021 in my Jeep, and was saddened with how much SxS’s have changed the atmosphere of the area. Not really bagging on SxSs, but these machines have made areas that were hard to access, accessible to so many more people. Be good wheelers, respect the organic history, and take lots and lots of memories home with you!
Wow! What a great ride, nice to see old blogs still standing, was thru here motorcycle camping in 70s, much has chgd in 50 yrs. Trail is much better that's for sure. Thks for the tour!
I really appreciate all the different trails and exploring with the views, plus all the Smoke Shows❤ Most of the trails I use to wheel in VT are closed. There's probably one or two if you ever make it up to VT or NH that we could do. 🎉❤ Not many views with all the trees, But lots of history up here in the Eastern Woodlands. Check out the abandoned vt town of Glastenbury. They say the woods are haunted, and up on top there's a fire tower, Hopefully people don't go and ruin it anymore than they have already.😢
Lived in Silverton for 10+ years. Used to blast up those roads on the dirt bike to see how far the county boys had plowed every year. There’s some great spring skiing up there.
I used to live in British Columbia Canada I really missed the mountains. Now I'm stuck in beautiful northern Ontario. We have some really beautiful country here in Ontario but there something so special about the mountains and the view for days. We used to take the ATV's and go for week at a time and you wanna talk remote. Man I miss those adventures. The thing that always surprised me is some of the old equipment that is left behind. You can barely get up there on an all train vehicle and yet these guys got some huge machinery up there over 100 years ago.
My wife and I were in the Silverton area (2 or 3 years ago). It is beautiful. We worked our way up Engineer Pass through hail and heavy rain. The group of jeeps in front of us, turned around. We were alone on our delayed honeymoon trip. When the jeep group turned around just before the summit, I did as well. (I didn't feel comfortable without other rigs around). We were so close to the summit.... That's fine. I remember from 1997, taking my 89 Dodge Raider down a rainy slope near Glenwood Springs. One rear tire fell of the side (19 at the time). I worked the clutch, with steering, and was able to get back on trail after about a 40ft rear axle grind... I was in my $5k gx470 for this honeymoon trip. It didn't slip or falter on the trails. It did so well. I am from Wisconsin, the first time I went 4X4 trip to Moab was in 96.... Read the magazines, I had to hit those trails.... Colt, that S10 you built is so cool, cheap and effective. Is there a better combo?
What a great video colt, you and Shannon had the best windows the day you two shot this video for all of us subscribers to see and venture along with you, it looks to be early June when you were there, it is unique in its own way like any other place thats breathtaking to see and i guess you could say walking/hiking at high elevation does to ,LOL , keep them coming 👍
The wife is a nice addition to the page , bad jokes and all 😆 🤣 😂
I like these excursion videos and not only for the views, but for the background information - and what a wealth of information this was! Not as inserts or voiceover but on the go - Colt not only shows it, Colt knows it! Much appreciated! 👍
Yes what they said , nature , exsploring & history , you cant go wrong . Ohh & wheeling
ONE OF IF NOT THE BEST VIDEO YOU HAVE EVER MADE !!!!!! LOVE THAT THIS IS THE REAL REASON FOR A OFF ROAD VEHICLE. ALL THE OFF ROAD VIDEOS ARE MOSTLY FOR RICH AND YUPPIES WHO JUST WANT TO BRAKE THE 4X4 !!!!! PEOPLE WITH TOO MUCH MONEY ..... PLEASE MAKE MORE OF THIS KIND OF REAL 4X4 VIDEOS !!!!! THE TRUTH !!!!!
Agreed on the moose! Animals actually considered scary or dangerous typically need a reason to come at you. A moose just needs a Tuesday
My scariest animal encounter was with a moose, well three,
I was walking to the end of the road I lived on to catch a ride.
And while walking I saw two of the biggest deer I had ever seen,
Is what I thought, it was a foggy VT morning, so I worked my way to the far side of the road, and there was a big pond on that side. and then Mama moose came down and let me know she noticed me and wasn't happy to see me. And that's when I tried to keep going down the road side stepping, not letting my guard down, facing her the whole time she took a few steps and grunted, so I stopped and let her gather up the calves and move when she finally felt comfortable,
I thought for sure I was going to have to jump in the pond and go underwater to avoid direct contact with her. I was in my mid 20s,
when I was 14 I caught a bobcat that my neighbor hit with her car,
That thing was fast, but not as scary as the moose.
Moose are angry on everyday that ends in “Y” 😂
Thank you Colt and wife for the adventure , seeing some amazing scenery and some history lessons !
No matter how hard my day was in construction I am always humbled by those who built this country and the sweat and tears that we can never match.
Youll never hear me complain about hour long top notch colt content. Keep swinging that camera boss....
I appreciate that
I love that Colt gets to do Colt stuff
You're in places we used to do 30 & 40 years ago!! On a summer vacay on our motorcycle, we stayed in Ouray and rented a jeep and went up Engineer and back. After we got home, we bought a CJ7 and 10 years later that same little jeep took us over Cinnamon the day after they opened it ~ in JULY!! Snow banks at least 3 times as high as you saw there. I miss that little jeep that we had for 33 years and I miss those days of adventuring in the mountains!! Thanks for taking us back again for another look, Colt!!!
You have tape, so find a couple of rocks the right diameter slid in from either side, use other rocks as spacers and wrap it with tape to hold all the rocks in place. One of your best videos yet. Love seeing your wife joining you on camera.
@@AlexInAuburn Huh?
Shanna (sp?) is a great addition to the channel. 👍🏼
After surviving WWII, my grandfather moved his family to the high Rockies. I grew up riding on the tailgate of his early CJ5 on those mountain roads. My father actually owned a blue '87 S-10 that I learned how to wheel in, so this is pure nostalgia for me.
Rad
47:20 I’m no geologist but that is definitely 💯 a rock
I am so glad you started your own channel. Your "tour guide" style is refreshing and similar to sightseeing without leaving my sofa. :)
Wow, thank you!
I love the Alpine loop. I’ve been going for about 10 years and just can’t get enough of it. It is a beautiful place and thank you for showing it. If anyone plans to go, please be kind and courteous and take all your trash out and stay on the trail. So millions more can come see this amazing part of American history.
Awesome to see people still get out 4 wheeling for the views and history and not just for a thrash fest
I am 81 now, and Thank You so much for this Video.
in the 1970s I worked in that area for the Oil Fields, several different companies, and traveled most of those trails/roads? in a 1971 Renault R16 Hatchback car, before they called those things SUVs....
my home at the time was Dumas, Texas and every chance that I got a Long Weekend, I was gone and used a Week's Vacation to explore those areas...
... again, thanks for making this video.,,,,,
a lot of history there....
Thank you for taking us along. I am glad to see that someone has fixed the old shacks to where they can be seen and not torn down. Oh ya, when you pointed out your truck and wife, you said it wrong, "smoking hot wife" is proper term and gets you browny points. 😊😊😊😊😊 words from an long time married old fart.
Chris George was responsible for stabilizing a lot of those old buildings. He just published a short book about it
Having wife on the channel ads a pleasant addition. Enjoying the ride. The OnX overlays are awesome.
Thanks 👍
Visually and acoustically appealing...thanks for taking us on the tour.
😂 smoke show wife. Not throwing shade cause shes a great catch! I hope she is chill with all the comments!
Colt you’re a brave man…. She’s going to get you back for the snow shenanigans…. :)
RIGHT ON COLT COLORADO TRAILS DONT GET ENOUGH LOVE STAY GOOD FRIEND , AND KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK 💯😎
Wow what a beautiful drive Colt ,that place is AWESOME Man. It looked like you guy's really had fun. Thanks for taking us along bro. 👍
Glad you enjoyed it and we did
My mother grew up in Lake City, my wife and I were married at Thoreau’s Cabin on Engineer Pass. This whole area is one of my favorites in the whole state.
Best Video of 2024! Thanks for talking and showing all mining towns. Lot of Snow to open road. Wow.
Great comment, thanks!
If you don't already have one on your rig, a Silky Big Boy folding saw comes in handy for clearing a trail.
I love that area. My dad was born and raised in Silverton . My granddad worked a lot of the mines and My grandparents are buried in the Silverton cemetery and I still have family living there. I feel a crazy connection to that area.
I had to give you more than one thumbs up for this one. 👍👍👍👍
Great trail thanks for taking us along.
Including your prettier half is smart, Shanna's a nice addition to any video.
Colt, what a great video. I watch videos to learn about capable rigs to do just this kind of thing. Building and climbing rocks is fun and all....but most of us will never be able to build crawlers. Rigs that can take us to the back roads of America to see the beauty most of us never see. I hope you'll do more videos like this. I'll be along for the ride.
You make awesome videos Colt, but this was on another level. Fantastic!!!!!! Great scenery, wheeling and history lesson all rolled into 1. I'd like to speak for everyone and say more please.
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks!
Good day from Australia keep the video like this coming great to see this beautiful country thanks to you and your wife for sharing it with us
Great video, you and your wife make an excellent team on camera. Makes for a fun and interesting video, looking forward to more of your adventures together.
Thanks 👍
Great vid. It looks like you missed the crowds. Nice to see your better half on more trips. She seems to enjoy working on the channel. Cute addition.
Those hats look like Satch on the Bowery Boys! 😂😂😂😂
Colt, you just lost the foot massage by throwing the snow ball, just my opinion. Thank you for this video, my husband and I can't go to those places, but through you and your videos we can. Blessings to you and your wife.
The “step kids rooms” in buildings in the 1800’s that are really small were nurseries for their babies just off the master bedroom . There’s no doors to let heat circulate over there , a window in the room to crack in hot nights for the baby.
Just for accuracy for future posts. you pointed out a mine shaft. actually that was a mine drift, drifts are horizontal and shafts are vertical, thought you might be interested.
Automatic thumbs up for the Ernest reference. Nice vid.
Classic
My grandparents were partners in a cattle ranch between Lake City and Creede, along Hwy. 149. My family would spend at least one month a year at the ranch until we moved to Del Norte in 1963. I miss the San Juans, especially the smell of the high country in the summer.
Ahh...yes. The smells. So true.
Love your channel so far, haven’t missed an episode.
We typically spend four to six weeks in Lake City Colorado each summer. Next time on Cinnamon, take the short side trip to Handies Peak. Amazing view and a great 14,000 peak to climb. The restaurant you passed in Lake City is Southern Vittles. Their chicken fried steak is great. Thanks for sharing the video.
In my teens we lived in woodland park Colorado. We used to take Arnold Jeep into the back country behind pike peak near Victor/cripple creek… best time of my life … I live in Michigan now , and wish I was there…. Thanks for sharing….
My relatives walked pushed a handcart from Ohio, through the same region youre in in this video & When I watch or travel off-road trails like your video I always think the amazing tools we have of an actual powered vehicle we sit in with comfortable seats, AC and heat , 4 wheel drive capability with lockers etc & the. Always think of my families journey pushing a cart on foot 1,200 MILES pushing that cart through the terrain your in but without a graded trail. When I see obstacles and tough terrain I always imagine how insane that is to imagine walking that with a cary and your children. .
They migrated from England in the mid 1800’s and made it from New York then to Ohio all literaly on foot. I think of how back then they hadn’t seen pictures of America, of the west , there’s no mountains in England , sees rare snow , sea level , they’d of seen nothing but the terraine and views of England & I can’t imagine how they felt seeing what you see in this video, I’d bet they were in utter awe! They joined a hand cart group of Mormon pioneers heading west that were making the journey from Ohio to Utah ON FOOT with 3 daughters between 8 months old and 7 years old. Their hand cart group got a late start spring so they decided to go south 500 miles and through Colorado and the Rockies instead of the route the trail breakers use through Wyoming. Wyoming is much flatter but being in the northern US they thought the snow would hit sooner and harder , going south 500 miles saw slightly warmer temps but hadn’t been travelled by many pioneers & not much info , unfortunately they came to find what we know, that the Rockies is one of the youngest mountain ranges on earth which means much more jagged, steep broken up mountain ranges worse for travel and elevations above most anything in the country, which means colder temps and early snow at elevation much earlier than Wyoming gets. Despite this this group of 75 familes (75 individual hand carts which consisted of 2 wooden wagon wheels , a flat form 4’x5’ with 12” sides and holding all the belongings they could carry . It has a wooden tongue and a handbar cross bar wide enough for 2 adults to hold on to and push/pull essentially benign the horses of a carriage. The kids old enough to walk and help would walk behind and push the cart , toddlers sat in the cart and infants were usually put in a piece of cloth that put them on their moms chest for warmth & less bouncing around. These carts with belongings weighed around 3-400 lbs. i see your rig driving up these trails and covering 80 MILES of tough terrain in a day & then imagine the mindset of my family , to decides we are going to WALK with a hand cart 1,200 MILES with NO cities , villages ,hotels , convince stores , no shelter , the threat of wild predators , to some of the agressive Indian tribes encountered but the weather , time frame & terrain being the most unpredictable and dangerous. You’re racing against winter , if you get caught in it , survival not likely , if you get sick or need to wait , the grouo has to go on and you get left behind which is what happened to my family , a sick baby needed a few days of quiet and rest to down a fever and put them 4 days behind the group catching them in Nebraska when they decided to go through Colorado. Much of their route ended up being trail blazing , literally pushing handcarts over terrain completely natural, bumpy , rocks , logs , terrible for handcarts, pushing though canyons often meant unloading the cart manually up over a rocky pass then pulling the cart up inch by inch. The end 1/3 the journey at high altitudes /low oxygen, much colder temps with a lot of snow , blizzards , inability to start fires when alls wet , Al with no hiking shoes, expeditio gear , no waterproof coats , no all season tents for shelter. The thought of WALKING of beginning that unknown journey , to say ok were leaving right now starting a pushing of a cart by hand from Ohio to Utah through the Rockies , starting in spring knowing you’re walking UNTIL WINTER, knowing about 35-40% of children under 10 dong make it , knowing if u get sick or injured there is NO help, no ambulance comming to get you noones going to carry you and your family back to Ohio ,you get left behind becasue the group has to push to make it knowing they WILL be travelling in winter, just how long being the unknown. Despite that , my great grandparents in their 30’s walked /pushed 1,200 MILES on foot , every single foot of that distance d being walked not riding on a cart but they together dragged that cart through the terrain in your video but with no graded trails and they made it to Salt Lake City Utah by themselves traveling the last 3rd behind the group , a couple from England , new to America navigating and taking trails & forks they were clueless on , managed to get their belongings and daughters to Utah!! When I get home from taking my daughters hiking or when we go wheeling in Moab we’re exhausted end of day , I can’t fathom the toughness , relentlessness , the hope, the fear , the physical strength and endurance & a resolve and love for your family that you want a better life for them SO much you’re willing g to literally carry them 1200 MILES !? Thousands and thousands of people did this and many going on through utah into California even. As a single dad of 3 daughters that are my life , whenever we go wheeling or trail riding I imagine how hard it’d be for the pioneers through the same region.
Your video I thought the same and you adding all the footage of the mines just took it home for me , great video and content , you’re living the dream,..congrats and thanks for sharing!
Been more than 20 years since I've been on the Alpine loop. Thanks for letting me see it once again. Great memories.
Our pleasure!
I just wanted to thank you for this segment that you chose to put on here as a little older and with my knees and back and hips I’ll never be able to go up there and take a look at these so it was nice to see it from your perspective and look around at all the beauty thank you
A big thank you, to you and your better half, for a really interesting video, lots of history and awesome views, thank you both.
Thank you Colt and wifey for a great trip and history lesson. Loved it!
"The smokeshow S10 and the smokeshow wife" How long you had that one on tap, man? Seriously high end dad joke right there. Top quality. Damn fine trail video too!
The adventure videos you've made over the years with your Shanni and others are good and interesting. Fascinating country. Great stuff, great vid. Gooday from Australia.
Glad you like them!
Colt your misses is a pretty tough cookie making that hike to mineral point in flip flops ,I bet even Frieburger would have put shoes on lol.
ps possums are really good to have around the eat ticks and they don't Carry diseases ,the more you know.
Nice overall scenic video. Sorry for the criticisms; just soo easy!
Have fun! Don’t forget to get yourselves good sunglasses and better hats!
Your smoke show wife makes your videos more interesting!😊
What you are calling tree line is really called Timberline. 😊😊
Excellent scenic views and history lessons, Colt and spouse.
Late summer might be a popular time for those trails, but this was epic.
My wife and I are fairly new to your channel. This was an absolutely awesome video! Thank you for sharing it from your down to earth point of view.
Not that we don't like your other videos, but many, many more like this would be much appreciated!
Awesome tour video. Taking folks places they might not ever get to see, with a humble guide! Looking forward to more of these!
Thanks, we'll always continue to take adventures if we can.
I did this loop in a rental jeep from Silverton in 1992. Never had been 4 wheeling before that and it was a great time. Best money I ever spent on a rental.
Watching you build and create these awesome vehicles is so cool, but watching you wheel them to places, I can't always drive to is very enjoyable to me. Thanks for taking us along with you both. 😀👍👍💪💪
colt, that was another amazing video of your part of the country. wish i could visit but battling cancer, that makes it difficult for me. i would love tour matts off road,robby lawton, just to name a few, again i can not, so keep doing videos like this . thank you sir!😊❤
When I shoot an hour of footage it takes me all day to edit... Appreciate all the hard work you put into releasing these videos!
I really loved this video. There’s not many people like you around that have absolutely no malice in their heart. Your positivity is infectious. You do these style videos really well too. The background info and views were great. Makes me want to move out there, or at least within a day’s drive.
It's really good storytelling. Colt, you are getting tuned in to the trade. Love the videos.
Appreciate it!
I remember the gas milage with my truck , STOCK! DO YOU GET 319 MILES ON A TANK? THAT IS A LONG TRAIL! BEAUTIFUL , AND WORTH THE WALK IN SOME PLACES!
I too really enjoy you two taking these scenic trails and explaining what we are seeing. Thank you
Our pleasure!
Colt and "Kie" this video is DEFINITELY THE BEST ONE YET.
I absolutely love all the historic information bout these old mines.
Thanks....🙌🤠🇮🇪
Ok the sticker high on the post = The Colt Challenge... gotta go there and see if I can jump my ole butt up there and touch it! Great ride, great video!
Great video, I'm saving it to watch on my big screen again. I have never seen country like this. Thank you and wife for doing all this , keep it up and God Bless.
Nice video, love the use of overlays on locations! Thanks for the ride along!
Glad you liked it, thanks!
Colt
Thank you for the video. I have been visiting the Silverton area for over 40 years. I have been running the trails for about 27 years. It is my happy place. Everytime we decide to go somewhere else for vacation I always end up wishing I was in Silverton.
However it has become really popular and running trails isn’t as peaceful as it used to be. But the views are still second to none.
Anyway I really enjoyed the video. Thanks.
We are ABSOLUTELY LOVING these videos....keep them coming!!
Hey Paul the flat differential covers are bad. They don’t sling enough gear oil to lubricate the out put shaft. BANKS has a video on this subject.
Colt, thanks for doing this loop! In 1991 My wife and I celebrated our honeymoon at Cascade Creek condos, we rented a Jeep in Silverton and drove from Silverton to Ouray through Animas Forks, it was June 3rd, saw the same walls of snow! We’ve been back numerous times but one of our most favorite trips, was riding double on our Honda Rancher Quad, we packed an overnight bag and stayed at the old Carson Inn B&B we rode into Lake City had a Alfred Packer Burger (if you don’t know his story look it up) we rode back to our truck and trailer over Engineer pass, I love to fly fish so we stopped here and there to fish and eat lunch!
If you haven’t been over Stoney Pass, do that sometime, on the eastern side of the pass is the headwaters for the Rio Grande
I agree. She IS A SMOKE SHOW.😍 Good on ya mate. Great Channel. New sub.
Thanks for the sub
Content is amazing, I've explored a lot of trials in that area, epic experience
You would make a great off road tour guide. I have not been home in 24 years. You make me want to come back.
Thanks for the tour….i’m afraid I will never see that in person but you never know!👍🏼👍🏼…and I can’t believe you let your wife walk around all that dangerous ground in SANDALS…I know it’s none of my business but I have seen some nasty things happen in my days….
Some awesome looking camping up there!
Definitely a few good spots for sure!
great video colt and mrs colt i wish i had the money to come and visit love watching your stuff from shepparton australia
Colt, just a note on your commentary in the William Duncan house: it has been extensively restored. Last time I was in it many years ago, the floorboards weren’t safe to walk on, the windows had no glass, and the roof and siding were in a state of great disrepair and pretty much ready to fall off the building. ❤
So nice to see it put back together so nicely. I’ll have to go see it this summer on our annual Jeep week in the San Juan’s. 😊
Great video. Love that area. Wheeled it back in the early 90's when there weren't any SXS' roaring around up there. Dad and I and my BIL's would go down there for a week of "overloading" (before overloading was a thing). We would camp in a new spot every night. Run into Ouray to refill coolers with beer and fuel and food up and go out for another couple days. Mineral Point was a cool road to go across (now it doesn't go through). I have many photos from our trips down there. Poughkeepsie is a fun road too. Black Bear is a great road but the driver has to pay close attention on the switchbacks.
Those coconut crispy rollers are great. Try the blueberry. We get ours at Sam’s. I had to raid the wife’s stash. Thanks for taking us along.
Fun trip guys, THX for taking me along!
Our pleasure!
my guess on that crystalline rock is feldspar. Mostly alumina and silica.
Awesome beautiful views
Awesome video 😊😮😊
Thanks for the visit
I know you have spent much of your youth exploring this part of the country. So have I. But I bet my time as a youth pre dates yours by a few years. Back when we first visited Animas Forks in the early 70’s, the William Dunkin House still had old newspapers for “wallpaper.” Did a family reunion back in July of 2021 in my Jeep, and was saddened with how much SxS’s have changed the atmosphere of the area. Not really bagging on SxSs, but these machines have made areas that were hard to access, accessible to so many more people. Be good wheelers, respect the organic history, and take lots and lots of memories home with you!
That's a badass rig!
100% awesome video..
Your videos are always awesome. Incredible views so envious 😊
Love the history lesson....
Wow! What a great ride, nice to see old blogs still standing, was thru here motorcycle camping in 70s, much has chgd in 50 yrs. Trail is much better that's for sure. Thks for the tour!
THANK YOU COLT !!!!!! This is MY Favorite Area BY FAR , And I am up there EVERY CHANCE i can !!!!! THIS IS MY HAPPY PLACE !!! 🥰
I really appreciate all the different trails and exploring with the views,
plus all the Smoke Shows❤
Most of the trails I use to wheel in VT are closed. There's probably one or two if you ever make it up to VT or NH that we could do. 🎉❤
Not many views with all the trees,
But lots of history up here in the Eastern Woodlands.
Check out the abandoned vt town of Glastenbury.
They say the woods are haunted, and up on top there's a fire tower,
Hopefully people don't go and ruin it anymore than they have already.😢
Thank you Colt and Shanna for another excellent tour with history! We did some of this last month. Now we gotta go back and do the high passes.
Lived in Silverton for 10+ years. Used to blast up those roads on the dirt bike to see how far the county boys had plowed every year. There’s some great spring skiing up there.
I used to live in British Columbia Canada I really missed the mountains. Now I'm stuck in beautiful northern Ontario. We have some really beautiful country here in Ontario but there something so special about the mountains and the view for days. We used to take the ATV's and go for week at a time and you wanna talk remote. Man I miss those adventures. The thing that always surprised me is some of the old equipment that is left behind. You can barely get up there on an all train vehicle and yet these guys got some huge machinery up there over 100 years ago.
My wife and I were in the Silverton area (2 or 3 years ago). It is beautiful. We worked our way up Engineer Pass through hail and heavy rain. The group of jeeps in front of us, turned around. We were alone on our delayed honeymoon trip. When the jeep group turned around just before the summit, I did as well. (I didn't feel comfortable without other rigs around). We were so close to the summit.... That's fine. I remember from 1997, taking my 89 Dodge Raider down a rainy slope near Glenwood Springs. One rear tire fell of the side (19 at the time). I worked the clutch, with steering, and was able to get back on trail after about a 40ft rear axle grind...
I was in my $5k gx470 for this honeymoon trip. It didn't slip or falter on the trails. It did so well. I am from Wisconsin, the first time I went 4X4 trip to Moab was in 96.... Read the magazines, I had to hit those trails....
Colt, that S10 you built is so cool, cheap and effective. Is there a better combo?
What a great video colt, you and Shannon had the best windows the day you two shot this video for all of us subscribers to see and venture along with you, it looks to be early June when you were there, it is unique in its own way like any other place thats breathtaking to see and i guess you could say walking/hiking at high elevation does to ,LOL , keep them coming 👍
I would love to visit here, Winnipeg is just under 1400 miles away, and I need to buy a 4wd first❤