Posted: 9/30/2009 8:15:28 PM EDT
...at more than 2 miles above sea level...pick is from Sunday's outbound trip, but I stopped today to check it out on the way back. My Cavalier has terrible performance at 11,158 feet, by the way  |
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I have driven from sea level up to 13,796ft in a couple of hour timespan. Temp went from ~90 at sea level to ~39 at the summit. Mauna Kea summit, Hawaii in a Jeep Wrangler... It had about 3 1/2hp at that altitude. Got a great tour of the Kek observatory too..  Pics are on my other puter, will post some later. |
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Quoted: I did that climb in a 24' Penske truck in the rain. The backside down to Denver is the killer. STEEP GRADE NEXT 6 MILES WE MEAN IT! "You're not down yet, truckers!" Quoted: I see snow above Chair 2, 9, and 4 as I recall...  (I ski Loveland every once in a while) B2  |
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I did that climb in a 24' Penske truck in the rain. The backside down to Denver is the killer. STEEP GRADE NEXT 6 MILES
WE MEAN IT! "You're not down yet, truckers!" Quoted:
I see snow above Chair 2, 9, and 4 as I recall...
(I ski Loveland every once in a while) B2 http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b100/89Sunbird/DSC_0052.jpg 
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I did that climb in a 24' Penske truck in the rain. The backside down to Denver is the killer. STEEP GRADE NEXT 6 MILES WE MEAN IT! "You're not down yet, truckers!" Quoted: I see snow above Chair 2, 9, and 4 as I recall... (I ski Loveland every once in a while) B2 http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b100/89Sunbird/DSC_0052.jpg http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/9650/truck11another1.jpg That's it...I giggle every time I see it. |
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Quoted: They don't allow placarded (HazMat) trucks and trucks over 13'6" high in the tunnel...I've had to take the bypass (Loveland Pass/US6) before...it's another 1000 feet or so higher. A friend suggested I take th at route on my way back today...I told him he was insane...there were times when I couldn't get up to 50mph, even before I got to the tunnel...my car spent most of the trip up constantly downshifting then upshifting again (automatic)...I'd have just downshifted myself, but I was in 4th gear at 3700RPMs and still not getting above 55  |
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They don't allow placarded (HazMat) trucks and trucks over 13'6" high in the tunnel...I've had to take the bypass (Loveland Pass/US6) before...it's another 1000 feet or so higher. They do, but it's a pain in the A** system on the hour when HWY 6 is shut down... Hell, you can hear the HAZMAT sirens when you're skiing Loveland. (Welcome to the I-70 traffic jams for "good reasons" beyond the sheeple of all insanity...  )
I remember when Eisenhower Tunnel was built along w/ I-70, and the "one tube"... The "Glenwood Canyon Project" or whatever on the Western Slope was maybe even more impressive, but sadly had too much "oversight/Feds/libs" involved; regardless, that's still a spectacular drive for most "tourons" that didn't live the old roads. B2 Here's a semi-cool pic from a project that started at Loveland as I recall... Take it for what it's worth and many of the OTHER ski areas are mucho better than depicted in these old maps, to include Ski Loveland but this is what the OP's pics included.
(Hidden "GEMS" of Colorado and MOST folks don't even realize... Some of the locals have beat me up so I can say no more!  )
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They don't allow placarded (HazMat) trucks and trucks over 13'6" high in the tunnel...I've had to take the bypass (Loveland Pass/US6) before...it's another 1000 feet or so higher. They do, but it's a pain in the A** system on the hour when HWY 6 is shut down... Hell, you can hear the HAZMAT sirens when you're skiing Loveland. (Welcome to the I-70 traffic jams for "good reasons" beyond the sheeple of all insanity... )
I remember when Eisenhower Tunnel was built along w/ I-70, and the "one tube"... The "Glenwood Canyon Project" or whatever on the Western Slope was maybe even more impressive, but sadly had too much "oversight/Feds/libs" involved; regardless, that's still a spectacular drive for most "tourons" that didn't live the old roads. B2 Here's a semi-cool pic from a project that started at Loveland as I recall... Take it for what it's worth and many of the OTHER ski areas are mucho better than depicted in these old maps, to include Ski Loveland but this is what the OP's pics included.
http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i48/babirl/Lovelandoverview800.jpg (Hidden "GEMS" of Colorado and MOST folks don't even realize... Some of the locals have beat me up so I can say no more! )
The sirens that you hear are the overheight sensors going off. They go off if a vehicle over 13'6" high passes the sensor. The siren goes off, and the red 'traffic lights' over the road turn red, and the vehicle that tripped the sensor is supposed to pull off into the parking area just before the tunnel to be checked by the tunnel personnel. |
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Now drive up Mount Evans ... over 14,000 feet. I have to do the drive again next week...might borrow my dad's supercharged Nissan Frontier this time... Take a drive on SR 82 over independence pass. My dad almost died on Independence Pass. Brakes went out on his parents car and they almost ran over the edge. |
