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Trail Info - Governor Basin:

zluster

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http://www.narrowgauge.org/4x4/html/govenor.html


Governor Basin trail splits from the Yankeeboy Basin trail just a little way up from the Imogene Pass Split. Governor Basin is a pretty quite trail with some impressive views and old mine remnants.

Several old mines cannot be reached from Jeep but can be reached from foot(at something like 12,000 feet, so the air is quite thin). I was here one year was the Hard Rock 100 people where coming down by the Virginius mine and making me look paraplegic compared to the way they moved.

Typically snow can block the trail even into august, so sometimes it is impassable even until september.

Looking up the valley at the yankee boy basin road:
http://www.colorado4wheel.com/images/ouray/ouray_laborday_05/IMG_9136.JPG

Looking forward at the way up:
http://www.colorado4wheel.com/images/ouray/ouray_laborday_05/IMG_9137.JPG

And from where we came:
http://www.colorado4wheel.com/images/ouray/ouray_laborday_05/IMG_9139.JPG

The road coming up from the splitoff with imogene pass:
http://www.colorado4wheel.com/images/ouray/ouray_laborday_05/IMG_9144.JPG

Elevation partway up:
http://www.colorado4wheel.com/images/ouray/ouray_laborday_05/IMG_9148.JPG

Getting higher up, still not all the way:
http://www.colorado4wheel.com/images/ouray/ouray_laborday_05/IMG_9149.JPG

About as high as you can drive:
http://www.colorado4wheel.com/images/ouray/ouray_laborday_05/IMG_9152.JPG

http://www.colorado4wheel.com/images/ouray/ouray_laborday_05/IMG_9155.JPG

You can see the start of the Virginius mine way up high, the rest of the mine is hiding from view:
http://www.colorado4wheel.com/images/ouray/ouray_laborday_05/IMG_9157.JPG

Some other mine you can drive to from the basin:
http://www.colorado4wheel.com/images/ouray/ouray_laborday_05/IMG_9162.JPG
http://www.colorado4wheel.com/images/ouray/ouray_laborday_05/IMG_9169.JPG
http://www.colorado4wheel.com/images/ouray/ouray_laborday_05/IMG_9174.JPG

Pokey rocks:
http://www.colorado4wheel.com/images/ouray/ouray_laborday_05/IMG_9193.JPG

Looking back down on the yankeeboy basin road:
http://www.colorado4wheel.com/images/ouray/ouray_laborday_05/IMG_9200.JPG

Some gears:
http://www.colorado4wheel.com/images/ouray/ouray_laborday_05/IMG_9202.JPG

From the mine across the valley in the previous pictures:
http://www.colorado4wheel.com/images/ouray/ouray_laborday_05/IMG_9205.JPG

http://www.colorado4wheel.com/images/ouray/ouray_laborday_05/IMG_9207.JPG

http://www.colorado4wheel.com/images/ouray/ouray_laborday_05/IMG_9211.JPG

http://www.colorado4wheel.com/images/ouray/ouray_laborday_05/IMG_9212.JPG

http://www.colorado4wheel.com/images/ouray/ouray_laborday_05/IMG_9213.JPG

http://www.colorado4wheel.com/images/ouray/ouray_laborday_05/IMG_9216.JPG

http://www.colorado4wheel.com/images/ouray/ouray_laborday_05/IMG_9218.JPG

http://www.colorado4wheel.com/images/ouray/ouray_laborday_05/IMG_9223.JPG
 
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