[BenLurkin]

Yikes!

[Bonemaker]

Shouldn’t have gone on an off roading tour. But if they did, they should have stayed on the road.

[algore]

Unfortunately as usual stupid people ruin everything for the rest of us.

We all know that these trails will soon be closed forever because danger or something

[smokingfrog]

A roll bar won’t help you very much in that situation.

[dynachrome]

That is a rough pass road. I never would try it or Black Bear.

[lee martell]

Just going through that first part, a 100 foot freefall down the cliff, probably gave the elder driver a heart attack.
He had very likely been driving up and down those mountain sides for years. All it takes is one mistake or one distraction from looking at the road ahead.

[Big Red Badger]

Hey driver,
FAIL!

[HartleyMBaldwin]

...hired driver Don Fehd, 72,...

When I die, I want to die suddenly in my sleep, like my grandfather...

[citizen]

I am guessing the trip idea originated with the 28-yo and she talked her 60-yo aunt into going. Sad.

[hercuroc]

Beautiful picture in the story I can see why someone would want to do it.

[Texaspeptoman]

There is something not said here. The road from the turnoff up to Camp Bird mine is a 2 wheel drive road. Past the mine it is 4x4. Now it is narrow in a couple of areas but in comparison to other shelf roads, it’s a dream drive. Inattention or meeting someone going too fast, but this section is not a slip and fall drive.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DWF0l1SYD2Y

[george76]

Colorado Ping ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)

[mylife]

Don Fehd’ up.

[Openurmind]

New legislation coming. Off roading outlawed.

[Burma Jones]

I did one of those tours in 2005. Lots of scary moments. Was glad when it ended.

[Nifster]

The hired driver was a fool

[tinamina]

I remember once when I was a child living in the area in the 1960s, we went on a picnic at Box Canyon in Ouray. There were no fences protecting tourists from the canyon and I remember we were on the precipice and my mom started rolling down the cliff to to her certain death there. Somehow we saved her but it was the scariest moment of my life.

[familyop]

What’s really fun is meeting someone else on a shelf road wide enough for only one vehicle, a couple thousand feet of drop below and backing up for a couple of miles or so to let the other vehicle through.

[familyop]

Last time I went over Mosquito Pass around 20 years ago, it was still a moderate trail suitable for vehicles with more ground clearance than a regular sedan. Very scenic!

Been over a couple of extreme ones, too, but those require modified vehicles (lockers, much clearance, much articulation, etc.).

[muir_redwoods]

Gravity never misses a chance to be gravity.