[moondoggie]

If you want heart failure try driving Independence Pass into Aspen sometime. It's breathtakingly beautiful with waterfalls cascading out of the sides of the mountains, sheer cliffs and wildflowers, but the road is very steep......narrow in places....and full of blind curves.

NOT for the faint of heart:-)

[GVnana]

Uh. Guys. If those are photos of Independence Pass, you guys are showing me a two lane road? Are you from the East or something?

Well the difference between the Rockies and the Sierras -- Rockies are big, old, round mountains with long sloping grades and foothills. Sierras. Steep, sharp new mountains formed from extruded granite of plate tectonics.Instead of Julie Andrews dancing through a meadow, think hanging from a rope on El Capitan. Now that you've got the picture I wish I had one since I'll be called a liar! OK. So I'm finally going to breakdown and buy the digital camera for myself.

Check out Henness Pass Road, Rubicon Trail. That's the kind of terrain I'm talking about.