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kzspree320
Jan 10, 2016Explorer
azdryheat wrote:
Grades aren't a big deal but it has some nasty hair-pin turns and shear drop-offs.
X2. We had planned on towing from Ouray to Durango with our fiver. Decided to go to Silverton in truck first to visit. On the way back I rounded a sharp curve and looked ahead. There was a semi pulling a trailer with an overside bulldozer on it. The bulldozer was wider than the trailer by about a foot on both sides. I was on the outside and there was a shear cliff. ****. I got well away from the curves and got all the way to the edge, stopped, folded in the drivers mirror and waited. The bulldozer crawled by within inches of my folded in mirror. Since the fifth wheel is wider than the truck, I don't know what would have happened. It was unnerving sitting there with the tires about an inch from the cliff and waiting. I'm glad the wife was there to roll down her window and look down to get me right to the edge. Needless to say, I decided not to tow that way. Chances of this happening might be extremely low, but I had enough of the million dollar highway for that day. A very memorable experience. Good luck. Keith
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