Birdseye Gulch. Leadville, CO. Solo. #63
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- Опубліковано 20 жов 2024
- Birdseye Gulch is a really cool but bumpy trail. If you're looking to do Mosquito Pass and want a harder beginning this is your trail. It's in the valley for most of it and I imagine in spring could be a lot more wet and wild. When it connects with Mosquito you only have maybe 15mins to go before reaching the summit. I took Mosquito back down again and all of that old mine stuff is on the way out to Leadville. The smoke is insane here and i bet the views are 100x cooler normally. Have fun out there!
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These tire deflators have many $15 copies but the others just don't hold up or are inaccurate. I don't know what the deal is, they look identical to me too but read the reviews- they're bad. I've been using these Staun's for over a year and never had a problem, I air down a lot. I recommend setting them at the trail so your tires will be the same temp when you get to the trail next time.
My Compressor:
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I'm quite happy with the compressor. There are better ones but I'd just get a bigger VIAIR, not someone different. Airs up all my 33's from 13-15psi to 37psi in less than 10 minutes. The in-line gauge is inaccurate when the compressor is on because of the pressure passing through. You need to switch it off to get a real reading. You can combat this by figuring out what incorrect reading corresponds to the real one. When mine is right at 3 Bar (43psi) it's slightly over 37psi. I put it on another tire and then use my real gauge to set it exactly.
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nice drive. looked the goods
thanks! a real interesting place.
Really enjoyed your video, The Nissan Xterra is a great rig!
thank you! it does surprise some people.. have fun out there!
Wow, that train pass was tricky !!! Gave me the chills for sure ... they did that on a curve section? Damn ... You are really cruising wonderful tracks ... and with a good level of difficulty !!!
And man, those drone shots just killed me ... no words do describe ... AMAZING
Poor camera, catching that "drag wind", ahahahahahah.
YOU ROCK !!! Cheers
thank you as always, you're too kind!
Wow, really pumping through the trails bud, great work as always, been playing catch up with work lately, so we havent been able to adventure as much before school started.
haha got 2 in 1 day with only minor backtracking. super glad i did too because i was kind of disappointed in the Mosquito Pass vid. plus after getting stuck a few times last year i'm actually going to cool it this winter haha. i heard somewhere got snow last week (A-Basin?) so i'm trying to pack them in.
I've been wanting to do this road for while now, that looks like a mess of fun the shots came out sweet. It totally slipped my mind for evening offroad options, so I drove up Halfmoon creek to the Champion Mill today. It's fairly similar, just on the other side of the valley from where you ended up on this route. Bumpy, rocky, steep, mine ruins, and some water crossings...the usual lake county stuff.
Josh? from Conifer?? it’s Mikes friend Frenchie!
Yeah from conifer, is this Jean Philipe?
yea dude!
HA! Small world. I've been having a string of small world
type things like this on youtube lately. You should hit me up if you make it up this way before winter.
That’s good shit!
Hey Nissan hook this guy up. Jawdropping stuff as usual man.
are your tire pressure lowered? of so, to what? and what kind of air pump do you use...?
at 14psi here. i have a viair with the battery clamps, i like it.
His deflators and pump is in description