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Originally Posted by Tom Earp
DeltAlum, can relate, ran to many Ski Trips to THE Mountains.
Always new where you were by the few trees along dry creek beds between Burlington and The D! 
For those that have never seen Black Ice, it is a bitch! Right T E?
Been over that pass that had an avalance and it is scarry and high!
Isn't it Rabbit Ears that goes up over to Steam Boat? Been a while since I have been there.  |
Yes on all, but Rabbit Ears isn't much of a pass compared to Berthoud -- where the recent big slide was in my opinion. To get to Winter Park/Mary Jane without going a LONG way out of the way, you have to cross Berthoud.
It's hard to remember that before the Interstate System and the Eisenhower Tunnel, U.S. 40 was the national road and everyone who was traveling that way had to cross these passes.
Real mountain driving (not on the interstate system) is pretty interesting and can be scary at times.