Now that Black Bear is open, I'm making an emergency trip to the Ouray area. A friend from CA is coming in her Jeep to get the 5 CO badges down there. I still need Black Bear and Poughkeepsie.
Current very aggressive plan:
Drive out 7/28
7/29:
Ophir > Black Bear > Lunch in Telluride > Imogene and find a camp spot dependent on weather
7/30:
Finish Imogene > Poughkeepsie > Camp on California
7/31: California > Engineer > Up to Marble to camp and run Crystal Mill the following day
8/1: Crystal Mill assuming everything has gone well and we're rested and comfortable to run out there, I hear it's a very difficult trail
We'll stop and check out Animas forks between California and Engineer.
If we have time, we'll swing up to Marble and then do the Crystal Mill run, this seems unlikely at first but who knows.
This will be overland style, camping wherever we can find a place.