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I have been caught out in a downpour once. It was hard enough to start causing rockslides
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I had a buddy meet me in Telluride one time (we were both in FJ's). We were there to do the Rotary Club's annual Black Bear Pass run going up. When he was going to head back to Dallas we decided to go over Imogene Pass to Ouray and he was going to take off from there. There was another friend visiting who was riding with me. We did Imogene and had lunch in Ouray. It was pouring rain the whole time. I decided to take Mineral Creek/California Pass/Hurricane Pass/Corkscrew Pass/Ophir Pass back to Telluride. When I got to Corkscrew it was really spooky heading down. There were serious slides in a number of spots across the trail that we had to go over, and the severe off-camber nature of crossing those slides was more than a bit unnerving. I found out a few days later that around the same time we were doing that run someone in a rented jeep who was right where Hurricane Pass drops down and Corkscrew Pass takes off was killed by a large boulder that had dislodged and crashed through the roof. Lesson learned about doing runs in that area in a heavy downpour.