Andrew B. Lundgren wrote:
> I was on Mt. Evans yesterday. I took my B up trail ridge road and got
> some pictures I though I would share. Trail ridge road is "the highest
> continuous motorway in the United States, with more than eight miles
> lying above 11,000' and a maximum elevation of 12,183'." See:
> <http://www.rmnp.com/RMNP-Areas-TrailRidge.HTML>
>
> The B ran great all the way to the top.
>
> <http://www.lundgren.us/~lundgren/2003Aug/P13Aug2003Wed_1534_37>
>
> Feel free to poke around the site. It is mostly just family pictures so
> won't be of much interest to most. Bandwidth is only 256k, so YMMV!
Can't adequately express my appreciation of this. I lived in Wheat
Ridge, CO, in 1977, 78 and 79. My favorite Denver-area experience was to
do the drive up Mount Evans and have a coffee at the Lodge. Then the
Lodge burned down, so I would bring a Thermos (tm) of my own. ;)
I have done the trip to the top in a 1949 Chevrolet Suburban Carryall
(now sold to a restorer), a 1970 VW Campmobile (in a local salvage yard
now), my friend's 50's model Studebaker Station Wagon, and another
friend's (from Canada) Volvo 240. When you get near the top, it gets
pretty nervous and white-knuckled, since there are places where the
vehicle might drop 1000 feet before hitting anything more solid than a
cloud.
Going up in the Chevy one day, I was passed by an old bathtub Porsche
doing at least 70 mph where I was nervous doing 30, partly due to the
absense of any sort of guardrail and sheer dropoffs being the general
rule there.
After I moved back to Oklahoma, I often would arrange my visits to the
area so that as soon as I had cleared Stapleton, Steve would meet me in
the Studebaker wagon and we would drive right to the top of Mount Evans.
The top is at 14,445 feet ASL and the paving stops at the parking area,
so you have to walk the last part to the top, which is a pretty good
hike at that elevation.
I used to get a big kick out of seeing most people turn green and sit
beside the path while I jogged to the top. I can't do that any more. ;)
The B looks just perfect against that backdrop. As I said at the site,
send this one to the Magazines; it's a perfect cover.
-Rock http://www.rocky-frisco.com
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