BOA

[fulsizjeep]

I have been banging my head all week at work because I had administrative duties I had let slide for a while and they caught up with me. I just love the beaurocracy in my job too... NOT! :rolleyes:

Where the heck that come from you say? Well, I have been trying to be creative with the BOA award. In 2002 Riverbeast (Todd) got it for the Miss Congeniality Award. When he finally sent it back to us in 04, it was going to be used for the Boa of Shame award. Last year was the first year for that. Guess who got it? US! Because all our Heeps (3) got busted at one point or another. Had to leave one behind at Ouray Ralph's place and come get it with a trailer. So, yeah, we earned it. Fair and Square.

So, we continued with the idea of Boa of Shame this year. Glen was a top contender, but why would we want to give it to him for almost dying? That sounded kind of harsh really. Plus, Glen and his crew are brave Jeepers. They have survived the Flight of the Dodo. :thumbsup:

So, at the last hour, Krista and I took it upon ourselves to award it to Will E - Mike! But "why?" has been the question. And we have asked him to keep it quiet while I try to come up with something creative. So, I confess, my brain is just not creative the last week. So, we bring you the TRUTH instead. :eek:

Mike has been a believer in Revolution Pass. A pass that reaches near the top of the world in the San Juan Mountains. We were fortunate to have AZ Ralph tell us that Mike was a believer. We took some comfort in unloading the Boa on him for his gullabilities. No, not Jonathan Livingston Seagullabilities. ;) So, this year, the Boa award became the Boa of Gullability and was bestowed upon Mike for being a believer. So, we finally got rid of it. Not a real fancy story, but by golly, it is the TRUTH. And the truth is out there. We just have to seek it.

Now, next year, we plan to ascend Dumoss Pass in the San Juan Mountains. This one is real folks. It was still covered in snow this summer, as in most. But we hear is can be crossed every 10 years or so and the last recorded crossing was in 97. We have heard it is 21000 feet in some stories, but others say it is really closer to 22000 feet. It is finally time to seek out that truth and see it with our own eyes. :cool:

[bigun]

Ok I was wondering what the real story was LOLi

[will e]

I am honored to be trusted with the boa. Although, I have to admit, post acceptance of the trophy I did try to nominate steve who managed to avoid any body damage on the trails (including that nasty looking rock that phil left some paint on) but did manage to connect with a light pole in the parking lot of the sheriffs office.. :)

Krista informed me that the commitees (made up of her) final decision was just that ... final. :)


As the holder of the boa I do get to hand it out next year. I will be watching.....

[Don S]

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Flint:

Dang!! And here I thought the boa went to the will-e driver for being the only one to bring a horse with him to pull his FSJ up Poughkeepsie Gulch.:rolleyes:


Have a good one and http://sc.groups.msn.com/tn/BC/C2/JEEPTECH101/1/b.jpg (javascript:tn_click_pic(11, 108, 160)) “Jeep Jeep!” CUL.. Don S..

[SVO42]

I am honored to be trusted with the boa. Although, I have to admit, post acceptance of the trophy I did try to nominate steve who managed to avoid any body damage on the trails (including that nasty looking rock that phil left some paint on) but did manage to connect with a light pole in the parking lot of the sheriffs office.. :)

Krista informed me that the commitees (made up of her) final decision was just that ... final. :)


As the holder of the boa I do get to hand it out next year. I will be watching.....

You mean this?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v490/SVO42/honeymoon-Colorado%20Ouray%20FSJ%20Invasion/7-21-0660.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v490/SVO42/honeymoon-Colorado%20Ouray%20FSJ%20Invasion/7-21-0659.jpg

[kennyh]

Well, now I get it. I couldn't figure out how he got that, but it was the 19,000 ft. pass that did it. Dumoss Pass is a killer. 21,000 ft. on a moonless night; 22,000 during a full moon. Some say the best way to tackle it is without the added weight of a low-range unit....

Some say you can see 71 hairy virgins from the top. Hmm. Not that great a view from up there, apparently. Watch for riderless camels coming down at a high rate of speed being pursued by crazed, turbaned, disillusioned terrorists with blue ba...er...disappointment in their eyes.

[Ralph Rogers]

I thought that it was DUMASS pass?
Ralph

[will e]

I thought that it was DUMASS pass?
Ralph

No, a Dumass pass is the pass you buy to get permission to go to Revolution point (at 22000 ft)

[uglyjeepling]

No, a Dumass pass is the pass you buy to get permission to go to Revolution point (at 22000 ft)

LMAO!

[fulsizjeep]

No, a Dumass pass is the pass you buy to get permission to go to Revolution point (at 22000 ft)

No, the Dumass Pass is the one that Texas Lexus made over double yellow on Krista and I coming home Sunday. I caught up with them just south of of Rico and shoved my ugly Great Googley MoogleyGreat Googley MoogleyGreat Googley MoogleyGreat Googley MoogleyGreat Googley Moogley front bumper right in his rear view mirror until his wife got in a panic and made him pass even more people on the double yellow. THAT is a Dumass Pass. :eek: Shudda seen her arms waving around like a Raggedy Ann doll in a dogs mouth. Ryan and I laughed hysterically for the next 5 miles. :D

[viscacha]

Most of you don’t even know this happened but a Dumass Pass is someone in a blue burb that tailgates you down the Telluride side of Imogene Pass at 13k and passes you on the inside of the first switchback with total disregard for anyone’s safety. If it hadn’t been for the delay at Tomboy, the rain, the hail, a shaken up passenger, and will e blocking the trail down further I might have been able to have caught up with them at the bottom. Then the tire slicing and sheet metal carving would have begun. I was so ****ing mad I couldn’t see straight. :grumble:

[Ralph Rogers]

Uh, that'a Dumass. Pronouced doo-mas, short 'a' as in aahhsssss.
Ralph

[Serious Johnson]

Uh, that'a Dumass. Pronouced doo-mas, short 'a' as in aahhsssss.
Ralph

From what I know, that pronunciation is correct, but the reference given above may be in error. I believe that the pass is named after Alexandre Dumas fils, son of the author of "The Three Musketeers" and "The Count of Monte Cristo". Like many sons of notable fathers, his contributions to society are best forgotten, but for one literary classic among the climbing community called "Mount Allegory".

An ancestor of mine, one Cyrus Johannesen, apparently had that work in mind when he came upon the merest of gaps in an otherwise vertical wall of the San Juans. On cresting the pass and finding no possible way down the other side, he determined to climb the high peak (not fully visible through persistent clouds) forming the south flank of the pass. He didn't make it on that try, daunted by August avalanches, but came down to the bars of Telluride and apparently regaled gamblers, miners, and whores with tales of Dumas Pass and Mount Allegory.

Cyrus later, probably to foster some sort of credulity, or perhaps escape a burgeoning bar tab, again attempted the climb, and has so far not returned in the intervening 134 years (though I maintain that his tab is open pending his reappearance, so drink up on ol' Uncle Cy).

While Dumas Pass is seasonably accessible to anyone with route-finding skills and more drive wheels than brain cells, Mount Allegory remains the last known (or at least suspected -- the clouds never clear) unclimbed peak in the lower 48. Rumor has it that the final remaining populations of Grizzlies in Colorado survive in a partially glaciated cirque just above the pass to the north.

S.J

[bigun]

From what I know, that pronunciation is correct, but the reference given above may be in error. I believe that the pass is named after Alexandre Dumas fils, son of the author of "The Three Musketeers" and "The Count of Monte Cristo". Like many sons of notable fathers, his contributions to society are best forgotten, but for one literary classic among the climbing community called "Mount Allegory".

An ancestor of mine, one Cyrus Johannesen, apparently had that work in mind when he came upon the merest of gaps in an otherwise vertical wall of the San Juans. On cresting the pass and finding no possible way down the other side, he determined to climb the high peak (not fully visible through persistent clouds) forming the south flank of the pass. He didn't make it on that try, daunted by August avalanches, but came down to the bars of Telluride and apparently regaled gamblers, miners, and whores with tales of Dumas Pass and Mount Allegory.

Cyrus later, probably to foster some sort of credulity, or perhaps escape a burgeoning bar tab, again attempted the climb, and has so far not returned in the intervening 134 years (though I maintain that his tab is open pending his reappearance, so drink up on ol' Uncle Cy).

While Dumas Pass is seasonably accessible to anyone with route-finding skills and more drive wheels than brain cells, Mount Allegory remains the last known (or at least suspected -- the clouds never clear) unclimbed peak in the lower 48. Rumor has it that the final remaining populations of Grizzlies in Colorado survive in a partially glaciated cirque just above the pass to the north.

S.J ROFLMFAO

[Ralph Rogers]

I like that. That's good.
Ralph

[fulsizjeep]

SJ - Thanks for some clarification! :thumbsup: Good to know. Krista and I have tasked Ryan (Gambler68) with doing more research on this because we wanna see this place. Even if we can't cross the pass, at least get as far as we can. Colorado Grizzleys... He11 Yeah. :cool:

[bigun]

H3LL Crom, Black Bart and I are up for a go at it!! Black Bart said that we should be able to get the Dilithium Crystals interfaced with the disgronifier by then. Which should give Crom the ability to levitate over the tundra there by robbing the Sierra Club of a weapon to keep us out. Dang Greenies

[Gambler68]

Ah yes, Dumas Pass. It was named for Pierre Dumas, a French trapper who came down from the Northern Territories in 1749. While on his lifelong quest for finding and trapping a rare white badger, he wandered into what is now central Colorado with his Sioux guide, a woman of great beauty. Clad only in (non albino) badger furs, they attempted to cross this one majestic peak that reached into the very clouds. Racing to beat an oncoming snowstorm, they crested the peak, but were caught near the summit once the snow started to fly. Spending a week up there, they first had to eat their mule, while sounding like a good plan, really wasn't, because the mule apparently wasn't too pleased when Pierre forgot to kill it first. Now left alone at the peak with an irate mule descending the mountain in the snowstorm under it's own lead, Dumas and his Sioux woman were downhearted and resigned to death. The story goes that the Sioux woman wandered off into the snow strewn rocks at one point, after Dumas fell asleep. She encountered a huge, snow white badger who told her he would lead them off the mountain, if she persuaded Dumas to stop wasting his life hunting him (the albino badger that is). The woman agreed to try and convince Dumas to do so, and was overjoyed at the prospect of getting off this mountain where she was trapped with this smelly frenchman who would probally try eating her next. She returned and shook Dumas awake, who in his grogginess and food deprived state, mistook her for the rare white badger (snow covered badger fur clothes apparently didn't help in this matter) and bludgeoned her to death his musket. When he came to and realized what he had done, it's said that he wandered off naked into the blizzard, and that his ghost still haunts the pass summit to this very day...

[Ralph Rogers]

Ryan, was that the domestic white badger, or the East African?

Now you guys got me cornfused. Who's story is the right one?

Bigun, you are also going to have to change the carburetor belts to drive that thing on propane at those elevations!

Ralph

[bigun]

Bigun, you are also going to have to change the carburetor belts to drive that thing on propane at those elevations!

Ralph
Yeah we're looking into replacing the piston return springs this year also, plus Bart has located a very rare 55 gallon drum of air replacer for the tires!!!!

[Jeepstress]

Dang Charlie! Ask Black Bart if he can git me a couple of gallons of blinker fluid. I'm getting low.

[bigun]

Dang Charlie! Ask Black Bart if he can git me a couple of gallons of blinker fluid. I'm getting low.
OK but you have to keep mum on where you got it from! ;);)

[Don S]

Ah yes, Dumas Pass..... ... Racing to beat an oncoming snowstorm, they crested the peak, but were caught and was overjoyed at the prospect of getting off this mountain where she was trapped with this smelly frenchman who would probally try eating her next. ...
..
Gambler68;

... Some people say that Pierre Dumas was actually the notorious Alfred Packer who ate five or six people while trapped in a snowstorm somewhere between Cinnamon Pass and Engineer Pass. It was a big deal in Lake City and Animus Forks.
Alfred Packer’s remains are buried at the base of Cinnamon Pass and Slumgullion Pass.
... It was argued in the Animus Forks court trial that these people died with collapsed lungs due to the lack of air pressure at 22,000 feet!
... When convicted of cannibalism Packer threatened to take the case to a higher court but the Judge reminded Packer that at over 11,000 feet the Animus Forks court was indeed the highest court in the country! :eek:

Have a good one and;) “Jeep Jeep!” CUL.. Don S..

Pps... The people that Alfred Packer ate were all Democrats.