Black Bear Pass Final Descent

Part 2 of our Black Bear Pass adventure 2007. We pick up the trail at "Pucker Hill" and follow the shelf road down through the tight switchbacks to the town of Telluride below.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Black
• Bear
• Pass
• Colorado
• Offroad
• 4X4
• Switchbacks

[sasktank]

that back seat driver woman would drive me crazy

[linguini85]

wow.i would have pushed her out.hate it when peplle tell me how to wheel.should get a real truck

[MrBeav62]

thats nuts

[christinajohnson206]

@smithriverdude Uh-oh, sounds like somebody's been doing Drano shots again. Oh, wait, I get it, you meant a Tonka fire truck, right? OK, that explains it then. My apologies.

[smithriverdude]

Come on I drive fire trucks on smaller roads than that.

[Fireheart528]

@DonMitsu I don't know if I would want to, that road is one crazy som b*tch of a mountain pass. A good trail to go horseback riding over, though.

[xquisitaz]

Sasktank:, Linguini85:, You guys ever driven this road? If you haven't, then shut up.....besides, this wife, or girlfriend seems pretty in tune with what to expect and look for and he welcomes her help in most situations in this video. Point being, you sound like testosterone closet fag males if at best. 

[DonMitsu]

Loved the video, We've done most of the trails in that part of CO but I still can't talk my wife into Black Bear. Kudos for getting your wife to go!

[Jim80470]

Big trucks can do it, If you have skills and patience in the switch backs. I did it in a 3/4 Dodge Ram diesel, standard trans, with a Hallmark Leveta camper on it. Piece of Cake !

[death85e]

@3Mudbone1 Understood....very well actually and i apologize to you if i offended you....I am all to use to people that decide that since they have 4 wheel drive or all wheel drive they can go anywhere and do anything in them...I was born and raised in Colorado and all to often now days i see way to many transplants from Cali that try things they were never equipped to do or had the brains to think through before they did it.

[3Mudbone1]

@death85e I have been four wheeling in Colorado since when the only people who really had four wheel drive vehicles were ranchers, loggers, farmers, hunters and fishermen. Now every yuppie and their brother has a 4X4 and most are the first ones to gho in the ditch on a snowy day. My truck is one of the best nequipped trucks and nicest trucks on the road. Winches front AND rear, etc. etc. etc.

[death85e]

@3Mudbone1 All i can say is that i wish you all the very best of luck.......that being said , i think anyone including myself is a damn fool to try that in anything longer than a jeep or four runner type vehicle. If you do decide to try it make sure you take video and post it if you and the truck survive.

I am confident that the search and rescue team will be glad to help you down or pick up the pieces at the bottom.