Porphyry Gulch Colorado 2019 Land Rover National Rally.
This video is of Porphyry Gulch and part way up the Ouray side of Black Bear pass. This was one of the trail days during the 2019 Land Rover National Rally sponsored by the Solihull Society Land Rover club based in Denver, Colorado. The Rally this year was in the San Juan mountains on trails around Ouray, Colorado. The region had a historic snowfall during the previous winter leaving many trails still blocked by snow or avalanche debris in mid-July. Porphyry Gulch is a an easy in-and-out 2.5 mile trail with scenic mountain views on the way to waterfalls and lakes at the end. The highest elevation is 12,500 feet.
The next part of the video shows an attempt at crossing over to Black Bear Pass from Porphyry Gulch using a cut-through trail. The trail is well used but does cross private land and can be blocked at any time. It wasn’t a gate that blocked us this time but avalanche debris and snow! We were able to drive up to a large snow field with a creek running under it but had to turn around at this point. The start of Black Bear pass is visible across the snow only about a quarter mile from where we had to stop.
Black Bear was one of the trails still blocked by snow but we decided to see how far we could go anyway. Although this trail has a difficult set of switchbacks we never got close to those. Snow blocked the way just past where the cut-through from Porphyry Gulch intersects the trail. There was evidence of people going off the trail around the snow but in the spirit of trail stewardship we were not going to contribute to tearing up the area any further. There was no point as there were undoubtedly more blocked points the higher in elevation you went.
Chapter Points
0:00 RoverLanding Adventures Intro
0:18 Porphyry Gulch Colorado July 26, 2019 Land Rover National Rally
0:24 On this trail preview
2:25 Trail Start - Porphyry Gulch
8:50 Porphyry Gulch turn around & waterfall
9:53 Return
14:15 Turn off to cut through trail Porphyry Gulch to Black Bear Pass
17:00 Avalanche debris & snowfield blockage
18:31 Hill descent
24:02 Heading up Black Bear Pass
25:35 Porphyry Gulch cut through to Black Bear Pass intersection
25:56 View from the other side
26:45 Black Bear blocked by snow
30:53 End of the trail & Credits
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