Winding roads in the mountains

81

wish we had some around here. i could use a technically challenging drive.

peacefrompaul

Those were fun during my Colorado days

Leezestarr313

I hated them in Tuscany, Morocco and Turkey No fun sitting in an old public transport in hot weather with lots of puking natives as travel companions and a plastic replacement window on your side looking down steepest slopes and discovering car wrecks down there.

81

http://maps.google.com/?ll=35.829505,-8 ... 6,,0,20.88

yeah buddy.....

81

Leezestarr313 wrote:

I hated them in Tuscany, Morocco and Turkey No fun sitting in an old public transport in hot weather with lots of puking natives as travel companions and a plastic replacement window on your side looking down steepest slopes and discovering car wrecks down there.

sounds fun....on a motorcycle

81

this was one of my favorite drives.

http://maps.google.com/?ll=36.536674,-1 ... 7,,0,11.38

just west of visiallia, CA. had a brand new PT cruiser rental...broke in that gear box

peacefrompaul

81 wrote:

this was one of my favorite drives.

http://maps.google.com/?ll=36.536674,-1 ... 7,,0,11.38

just west of visiallia, CA. had a brand new PT cruiser rental...broke in that gear box

beautiful

Snakeduck

Got plenty of those in my neck of the woods... Fun stuff. Once got in a high-speed chase with some cops on the road following the snaking payette river. They radioed ahead and more cops set up a roadblock for me in the next county...

norm

you'd love this one

https://maps.google.com/?ll=35.829505,- ... 6,,0,20.88

i used to love to drive winding roads but i get car sick now :(

Leezestarr313

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81

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fuck yeah.

81

norm wrote:

you'd love this one

https://maps.google.com/?ll=35.829505,- ... 6,,0,20.88

i used to love to drive winding roads but i get car sick now :(

driving on some back roads outside of ashville a few years back....had to pull over for my brother to puke. snapped a picture while he was out side finishing up

norm

81 wrote:

norm wrote:

you'd love this one

https://maps.google.com/?ll=35.829505,- ... 6,,0,20.88

i used to love to drive winding roads but i get car sick now :(

driving on some back roads outside of ashville a few years back....had to pull over for my brother to puke. snapped a picture while he was out side finishing up

well it used to be when i was a passenger but now it's even when i drive :x i could probably control it if i slowed down but then what's the point of driving on a curvy road

81

norm wrote:

well it used to be when i was a passenger but now it's even when i drive :x i could probably control it if i slowed down but then what's the point of driving on a curvy road

might as well walk at that point.

mickeyrat

http://www.devilstriangletn.com/


truckers have made a mistake on this road......

.http://www.tailofthedragon.com/index.html

chadwick

you need a CDL, a 80,000 (or more) pound vehicle & the winter months . that is mountain driving.

mickeyrat

chadwick wrote:

you need a CDL, a 80,000 (or more) pound vehicle & the winter months . that is mountain driving.

ummm, you just need the truck and the mountain in the winter Chad. CDL's are for conformists!!!

81

mickeyrat wrote:

http://www.devilstriangletn.com/


truckers have made a mistake on this road......

.http://www.tailofthedragon.com/index.html

i wanna do tail of the dragon one of these days. been in that area a few times, but have to date misssed the tail

Dr. Delight

Poconos, Pa.

Funny to watch NY area drivers o some of them.

mickeyrat

US 40 through PA into Maryland. Fucking sucks in a truck.

chadwick

scariest mountain driving i've ever been on is in two place. hwy 14 along the columbia river on the washington side. they have a very tiny bridge very high on the side of this mountain. the corners are where a blind trucker takes up every bit of the road. a mountain goat crew built this highway good thing is it is under 2-3 hrs long... well where i needed to go anyway.

nothing in the lower 48 compares to alaska's mountains

drove a dump truck in the mountains of western washington as I was hired to build logging roads. im not into knocking over forests so that didn't work out but one day.

used to drive up to Forks, Wa to pick up a load of lumber with a set of doubles. hwy 101 up there has some nice ass corners. 105,000 pounds of truck & lumber. elk & fog. elk & fog. cliffs & ferns, cliffs & ferns. big trees big trees.

rollings

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZDFIrkyhk8

gravity hill, pennsylvania

put it in neutral, and go up the hill

I remember my dad taking us there. This was the very spot where the expression "what the...?" came from.

the f part came from somewhere else

81

found a few rolling hills and some country roads this weekend. smelled some manure. i miss the country

Horos

https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=wl

You can see the squiggly part of Hwy 242 here. It's closed in the winter but weaves it's way through old growth forests and lava fields.

https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=wl

Wma31394

81 wrote:

wish we had some around here. i could use a technically challenging drive.

Some of the neighborhoods in dundee...sleepy hollow..and carpentersville are winding..narrow and very hilly..watch out for deer.

oceaninmyeyes

I drove down a winding dirt road that used to be a logging road Friday evening after dropping my older boy at a campout. Saw a couple of herds of deer. Beautiful. Then I drove through the remains of last years forest fire. There is still ash in the river. Sad. :( Less place for the animals to forage, hunt, hide. We'll probably end up with more bears, cats, deer and moose in town now. Then the DOW will have to get involved. :roll:

donnaruhl

Grey Back Mountain,is a Logging road that stretches from Happy Camp,Ca.
To Smith River Oregon.We Idiot's as kid's drove that damn thing in the snow,
In a V.W. Bug. Nice white knuckle trip. We do have plenty of winding river roads,
and Mountain roads here in Northern California. And the Coastal roads are awesome. Hwy 1

mca47

There is a nice windy road up SanFransico mountain in northern AZ. Single lane, no guard rail up a dirt road. Gets you up to about 10,500 feet. A regular car can make it, but high clearance AWD or 4 is better. Very steep, and you gotta keep a watch out for cars coming in the other direction. You can get two cars by, but your inches away and the guy going up has about 6 inches on his right that goes down a thousand feet. Kinda scary.
Really pretty up there!

Even in low gear, you're brakes will be nice and warm coming down!

chadwick

viewtopic.php?f=14&t=174897&p=4026142&hilit=death+road#p4026142
most dangerous road on the planet... aka... the death road of Bolivia

http://youtu.be/yJV3zA6jy-Q
im smart i would not drive this road nor bicycle the fucker like many do nor would i walk it as i am terrified of heights.

chadwick

donnaruhl wrote:

Grey Back Mountain,is a Logging road that stretches from Happy Camp,Ca.
To Smith River Oregon.We Idiot's as kid's drove that damn thing in the snow,
In a V.W. Bug. Nice white knuckle trip. We do have plenty of winding river roads,
and Mountain roads here in Northern California. And the Coastal roads are awesome. Hwy 1

I've visited the redwoods up there camping & things with my family when we were kids. i used to pick up crab in crescent city. we'd take a short cut & drive through the redwoods. there's a nice tight road through there with giant trees right up against the road. i remember just barely scraping one & another time being nearly run into a ditch by a dumbie

beautiful town that crescent city

JonnyPistachio

we have some nice mountains here to drive around. They're called garbage dumps.