Our best trip yet... southern Utah!
Just returned from a 9 day trip to the canyons of southern Utah and WOW! We broke the 575 miles from Tucson to Moab into two legs stopping in Tuba City both coming and going. Spent 3 days and night...
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Wow ... a 31% grade on a paved public road is insane. From your photo of the signage, I guess it must be "OK" to drive any type of vehicle up/down that grade?!
And to think that I considered Old Priest Grade to be nasty at 20%. We drove our very first home-built RV (Dodge B250 van based) up OPG years ago and it came very close to stalling in 1st gear just before reaching the top. When I was attending college, there was an uphill road on campus so steep that I had to back up it in my car. In some manual transmssions reverse gear is lower than first gear.
I now pull all long grades in our RV with Tow/Haul mode always engaged -> after blowing it's original TorqShift transmission at only around 61K miles.
And to think that I considered Old Priest Grade to be nasty at 20%. We drove our very first home-built RV (Dodge B250 van based) up OPG years ago and it came very close to stalling in 1st gear just before reaching the top. When I was attending college, there was an uphill road on campus so steep that I had to back up it in my car. In some manual transmssions reverse gear is lower than first gear.
I now pull all long grades in our RV with Tow/Haul mode always engaged -> after blowing it's original TorqShift transmission at only around 61K miles.
