So off I went, up and down the Ouray side to save time. I left late Saturday and spent the night part way up the pass, rated 4/10 and camped at around 10,600 feet up, I just did not feel like pushing a fully loaded Toyota and camper up steep rock in the dark.
After a good night's sleep, I made some oatmeal and hit the trail. Once I got to a spot on the upper shelf road where turning around would be impossible, of course I found an impassable rock slide was blocking me. So I got out and started moving rocks with a tire iron. But one of them took more of a finesse approach as it must have weighed at least 300 pounds or more. I made this photo of it on the way down this morning to show where I had moved it, some 4 feet out of my path:
