Ouray 100 - A True Mountain Ultra Experience
View from the Chicago Tunnel - an old mining tunnel @ 12k ft Looking up from the red rock rain soaked trail on Corkscrew Gulch I heard people shouting "Where is the trail?" A still-shifting mudslide about the width of a tennis court has eaten up a big section of the trail and was tall and wide enough that a group of about 10 runners didn't know the trail picked up on the other side. Luckily, I had been on this section the week prior and I led them over the slide to the other side. Every step sunk up to my upper calves with thick iron-rich red mud and rocks. To our right, the normally quaint little creek coming down from the Red Mountains had turned into the river from hell. The stream swelled to 12 feet wide, filled muddy water that raged down the mountain with amazing power. Full grown trees and boulders were rampaging down the mountain stream like they were weightless. Overhead things were looking equally sinister. We were in the middle of a series of storms that would
