Big Horn Mountain routes & gears
From Yellowstone to SD, if we go east through the Bighorns, it sounds like the southern route (16) is a little easier driving so we are leaning toward 16 (looking at other posts). We are first ti...
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Had the same fear when we did the opposite direction in 2011 with 32' 1992 P30 MH with no toad. With our four speed second gear held us on the hills in most cases.
We took 14 from I-90 to Cody to reduce non interstate mileage I guess but 16 is more common I think but 14 was a non issue as far as slope and curves but we did it at night because it was about 2 am when we got to WM in Cody. Once we left I-90 we did not see and signs of towns and only met two or three cars to Cody. We did not see any animals either on that leg mid Sept.
Not sure what you are driving because some of the new transmissions do a lot of the thinking for you like the GM six speeds, etc. We did 99% of our braking with the engine and keep RPM's at or below 4000.
Being a flat lander I was stressed for no reason exceptj getting into Yosemite. We did 8000 miles getting to San Francisco and never saw anything that gave me a concern other than getting on the old Priest road by GPS accident going into Yosemite.Thankfully we were going up but was only making about 15 MPH with the gas on the floor and the old 454 never missed once and stayed out of the temp temp zone by a hair for those four hair raising miles on a hot day.
You should be fine. Shifting up is easier than shifting down too late so start at a gear lower than you used to climb.
We took 14 from I-90 to Cody to reduce non interstate mileage I guess but 16 is more common I think but 14 was a non issue as far as slope and curves but we did it at night because it was about 2 am when we got to WM in Cody. Once we left I-90 we did not see and signs of towns and only met two or three cars to Cody. We did not see any animals either on that leg mid Sept.
Not sure what you are driving because some of the new transmissions do a lot of the thinking for you like the GM six speeds, etc. We did 99% of our braking with the engine and keep RPM's at or below 4000.
Being a flat lander I was stressed for no reason exceptj getting into Yosemite. We did 8000 miles getting to San Francisco and never saw anything that gave me a concern other than getting on the old Priest road by GPS accident going into Yosemite.Thankfully we were going up but was only making about 15 MPH with the gas on the floor and the old 454 never missed once and stayed out of the temp temp zone by a hair for those four hair raising miles on a hot day.
You should be fine. Shifting up is easier than shifting down too late so start at a gear lower than you used to climb.
