10: (Stunningly Beautiful) OURAY, Colorado - Do NOT do what I did!
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- čas přidán 16. 07. 2024
- The Grande Tour Episode 10.
Day 5: 13th July 2023
The FOURTH video from this day:
Having travelled from Grand Junction (Episode 7), hopped over to Cimarron Canyon Rail Exhibit (Episode 8) and had a guided tour of Ridgway Railroad Museum (Episode 9), here I am arriving in the beautiful town of OURAY.
Billed as "The Switzerland of America", this is town is surrounded by Alpine natural beauty and is filled with Victorian-American charm.
I have a good look around the town and climb to Cascade Falls, a beautiful waterfall, where I get a stunning view across the town and the valley in which it is situated.
(I do leave the footpath and walk a very dangerous-looking ledge. Do NOT follow my footsteps!)
Of course, I was there as Ouray was a point on the historic Denver & Rio Grande Western railroad.
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WOW! Great video.
Thank you George!
You had a good time at OURAY and the Falls. Great tour of your trip.
Beautiful scenery!!
Simon, pathfinder of the San Juans!!!
Be careful mate!!! Lol
Haha! It wasn't a path before and it's not a path now 😂
Thanks Tim
Great Exposure !!
Beautiful. Thanks Burnett.
Awesome video! I wonder what that area looks like right now....with the winter we've had, I bet it's buried in 30+ feet of snow!
Thank you so much!
I've seen a few recent pictures posted by Ouray Brewery on Facebook. They've had to close (again!) a few days to save staff taking risks getting in. As beautiful as places like this are, I can imagine the challenges citizens face.
Wow Simon dont do that again.My heart was in my mouth for most of that video.Your a very naughty boy🤣
I cant get over how stunning Ouray is.Beautiful😃
Haha! If I visit again, I won't be walking along that gravely slanted very high barely-a-ledge again 🤣
Thanks David! 👍
Ouray looks great. We are making reservations and will copy your trip this summer.
Brilliant. Ouray is well worth visiting.
I’m glad you didn’t slide into town from that “official” narrow trail!🚂🚂🚂🚂
Me too 😂
I was watching this through my fingers… was 100% expecting a mountain rescue episode after seeing that path! 😮
Such a lovely looking town. Classic old American buildings. Shame for you that the brewery was shut.
Absolutely stunning scenery.
Haha! So did I when I watched it back!
It's such a lively place.
You're all caught up now. I'd best start the next episode!
Nice climb for some good exercise to build up an appetite. Some of those paths look tight. Waterfall, glad you did not try to climb through it.
Yeah the official path is narrow and slanted, so not actually much different from where I "accidentally" went.
Cool AC in the room. Vent style. With all that scenery, I bet you have some nice ideas for a layout for your trains.
Oh yes, very much so! That's why I took so many pictures of the buildings, and the textures of the rocks etc.
Beautiful place!! 😊👍
I loved it.
That's my kind of nature ramble, and yes, I've invented paths and trails as well, much to the distain of HM the Wife. I got stuck in a small place on Ohio once and the natives were amazingly friendly and helpful. Seems like you found the same.
Making your own path has got to be done sometimes.
That so nice of the natives you met! Yes, I met many really nice people along my way.
Thanks! 👍
If visiting go to the hot springs especially in the evening, we did with a full moon and snow on the mountain tops , very special.
Ohh, the lady at my hotel said "Whaaat? You're not visiting the hot springs???"
The thing is, every day I was on a tight schedule. I'd typically get to my hotel, freshen up, get out to dinner, back to hotel and backup footage from the day, sleep. Then next morning, up, breakfast, and off on the next day's mission.
So sadly, I just didn't have time. I wanted to do the walk up Cascade Falls, and that's all I had time for.
So I'll have to say...... Next time 🤞
Simon,
I spent a few years in CO.
Cascade Falls, that's a "scramble" at 8500 to almost 9/10 k feet in elevation . Props my modest man .
Ah awesome! I love it there.
Thank you CCS 👍
I felt dizzy with a feeling of vertigo watching this!
Ha! So did I! I didn't while I was there though.
One of the nearby places I watch trains has a piles of old spikes laying around near the tracks. Perhaps I should make some coat racks! Is this the trail that upset your mom? Great video Simon. 😊
Oh yeah, any spare spikes will make nice feature items.
Yep, I put a little bit of this on Facebook on the day and she was horrified 🤣 This full version looks so much worse 🙈
Thanks Terry!
Hello Simon, a fantastic landscape and a wonderful waterfall with a great view, all in your tenth episode on the journey through Colorado. An excellent video, thank you for showing it and best regards Wolfgang.
Another little video, a ride on my garden railway: czcams.com/video/OYjJU-IEEoQ/video.html
Thank You Wolfgang for the ride . Great location with some very cool equipment. Especially love the steam era. 👍 Peace & Health
@@Cape_Cod_Steve Thank you very much, Steve, for your kind words. I also wish you health and peace. Wolfgang
Hi Wolfgang.
Thank you. It is so beautiful, and I'm glad you enjoyed my video.
Thanks for the link to your video also. I have watched, liked and commented 😉
Have a great weekend!
Simon
Fun fact: the Million Dollar Highway is absolutely gorgeous to drive along, but it is unknown whether "Million Dollar" refers to the value of the scenery, the cost to build the road, the amount of life insurance you should have if you try to drive it, or the amount of fine that should have been leveled against Otto Mears for thinking it was a good idea to put a road there!
Hmmm... yes. I've heard that's how much it cost to build per mile, but yes there are a number of ideas.
As nice as it may be, I wasn't going to pay a million dollars to drive it 😂
As a Colorado native we always pronounced it You-Ray, fun to see what others do. Though it's not near as confusing to pronounce as Saguache (Suh-Watch) in the San Luis Valley. That one always tripped up new weathermen.
Did you go up the tight canyon path between the rocks?
Oh interesting! I've mostly heard it pronounced closer to "Ooh-ray", but near the time I was there I heard a few say "You-ray", so that what I mostly said when I was there, (see episode 7 when it's my destination from Grand Junction) and then afterwards I'm back saying "Ooh-ray". So you get both with me 😂
I would never have guessed that pronunciation for "Saguache".
Another one is "Raton". I have a model locomotive with the name, and I'd never have thought of how people actually pronounce it. I have a video on that 🤣
I was on a tight schedule so I didn't manage to looked down the canyon, sadly. I'll have to visit again!
Thanks for you comment!
@@ThatBIGTRAINGuyRaton would be Ruh-Tone. Or at least that's the way we pronounced it in the SLV.
@@hallkbrdz Yeah I'd have never guessed that, with it having no "e" on the end. "Rah-tun" was my main guess, but oh well. Haha!