Posted on 02/20/2016 2:35:25 AM PST by uglybiker
Oof! That’s no fun.
What beautiful landscape! Except, of course, for the boulders blocking the road and the damage.
I’ve been on the I-70 from Aspen to Denver. Passes right over the Continental Divide. The fun part is driving through the Eisenhower Tunnel under the mountains.
I-70 is a horrible road to travel in the winter. Best to just go I-40 and avoid frequent closures.
Thank God nobody was hurt.
We drove through that area not too long ago. At that time there was construction with minor delays. My wife wondered outloud what do they do if the road gets cut off. Apparently a very realistic concern. What an amazing, scenic part of the country if you can make it out there though - magnificent!
Beautiful area. When going through on a motorcycle I say a little prayer that all those rocks stay up on the mountain!
158 MPH wind is the area did not help.
Best bet between October and May is to travel I-80 or I-40. If traveling to Grand Junction, take US 50 from I-25. Even when there’s no weather you can get mudslides, rockslides, lingering snow, and road-crippling accidents due to blowing winds, icy conditions, and heavy ski traffic.
Got over the mountain before the snow hit, forcing chains and some closures
Didn't realize until the next day, watching the news over breakfast at a truck stop, what serious winter is, in Colorado
Good thing too ... not only did I have no chains, I had never put a set on in my life ... I would have been stuck or dead.
There are large rocks out there. I have a large rock in my yard that is used for landscaping purposes.
It’s fracking! /s
Never heard of a pilot car concept.
Appears to be traffic in a single lane, alternating in direction.
We seldom need snow chains here in Colorado. Except at the higher elevations, snow seldom lasts long enough to justify their use. A couple of weeks of sunshine, warmer temperatures and the snow is gone. You’d hardly believe winter was around here.
My experience was around 2005 / 6
Just keeping it real....I didn't care for Vail. (1) I couldn't afford to do it up in luxury (2) It had pretty much become just another busy exit off an interstate.
Even back then, it was mind-boggling, the numbers of folks rich enough to have multi-million dollar mansions in those hills, vacant for most of the year. It was one of the first indications that the economy was out of balance.
I had thought about going to ski at Sunlight over Spring Break to beat the crowds.
Spent many hours running I - 70
From Colorado east it is a busy road. This section in Colorado is an engineering nightmare but beautiful.
The thing about I-70 is that it goes only to the NS I-15 in Utah. There you have to switch to US 50 if you want to continue West. You drop south to Vegas on I-15 or jog north to Salt Lake and grab I-80 but if you are coming from the east and try to go transcontinental, best to use I-80 or I-40 which each have closures in this time of year as well.
sounds like you know the area. My mother grew up in Oak Creek, which is on the way to Steamboat via Rt 131 (exit 157) from I-70...the route which is mentioned for the detour. Mom sure remembers the winters up in Oak Creek. Travel was rare...and it was long before I-70! :)
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