Yankee Boy Basin - July 16

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Saturday, we all took time to go to Ouray Rotary Park for some group photos before hitting the trails. Before we could go anywhere (Phoebe was down with split power steering hose and BeachMaster was down with brake leaks), we had to replace the rear drive shaft u-joints on Wally. Then a group of us went to scout out Yankee Boy up at 12,400 feet. Jeepstress, Ryan and I joined up with Ralph and Emily Rogers, Paul (J10/20 Project) and Charlie (Bigun) for kind of a late start. Michael, Scott and Toby had headed up to Yankee Boy earlier and we had a chance to stop and visit with them along the way. Plenty of FSJs on the trail this day. We got up to the last ridge before the basin and waited for Paul to run his XJ through some snow before the basin entrance. We wanted to visit Bones the Wondermutt at his resting place but was happy to get as close as we did. The flowers were just starting to really pop their colors along the way. Another beautiful day in above the tree line! =8-)