Tincup Pass

[Aaron]

Alright, now for tincup pass. The trail was "Honda Civic" easy till you got to Mirror Lake. This was pretty. Tincup was pretty darn easy. There, evidently, was a harder "shortcut" we could have (and should have) taken but I didn't know about it. Now I do and we'll do that next time. The trail was fun and had spectacular views from the top. After you get to the top, the ride down is deceptively long. Not hard but long. Lots of camping spots.

There were some rocky spots but nothing a stock wrangler (and probably other vehicles) couldn't handle.

Directions: Head for the town of Tincup (east on main street) or St Elmo. I'll let someone else give directions here as we were tired and weren't really paying attention.

Again you can run the St Elmo Lop by doing Hancock Pass, Cumberland Pass and Tincup Pass in either direction.

Pictures:
Mirror Lake


The summit

[Tom]

I did this from the St Elmo side is a 2wd Dodge pickup about 1997. Would have been in trouble if I'd high centered on the ruts going downhill into tincup.