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Old 03-26-2007, 02:52 PM   #18
Mac
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Castle Rock
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M.O.C. #4624
The reason there are no guardrails on Red Mountain pass is it's so narrow the snowplows have to be able to push the snow OFF the mountain. They couldn't with the guardrails in place. There is a monument somewhere along the pass honoring a snowplow driver that drove off the mountain pushing snow several years ago.

It's a beautiful road but I've never pulled a trailer over it. I have driven a Class C towing a car but just not towed the 5ver. Last summer we went over to the western slope and stayed in Montrose and Gunnison and drove the pickup all over that side of the "hill". The old gasser never got better mileage than it did on the western slope, both towing and empty.

I highly recommend you drive the Million Dollar highway sometime in your life!

mac
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