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BarryG20
Oct 02, 2018Explorer
As previously mentioned good road. You have a couple good hills as you come out of Denver and start heading up Genessee and then Floyd Hill. From there you get some relief until Georgetown then the slog up to the tunnel starts. Once up and through the tunnel and down you will soon hit Vail Pass and its climb. Once up and over it is mostly downhill all the way to Grand Junction. Glenwood Canyon just before Glenwood Springs is great. From Glenwood to Grand Junction is good road no hills of merit at all. From Grand Junction to the border you will hit a few hills as you get closer to the border but nothing that is long or really significant. I don't believe any of the passes or hills are over 6% anywhere along the route. Also as previously mentioned keep your eye on the weather. That time of year it can snow for sure but normally is a wetter snow. Though the storms are not frequent. Sometimes it can pile up and sometimes it is just a dusting or melts within hours. The problem with the early season wetter snow even if it doesn't get deep is it turns to the thick slushy icy type stuff from the traffic as the road is still a bit warm. Normally a non issue once west of Vail Pass a bit but you never know. We use COTRIP.ORG all the time to check out the cameras in the winter time.
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