Steep roads

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There's that one in California, (roadway, not bridge)
that I've seen in pictures and videos, that is very steep, turning, and amazing. I don't remember the specific location of it, as I've never been there, but it's a tourist attraction in itself!
 
Don M. said:
There are some narrow roads in the mountains of Colorado, and in my younger years, I used to enjoy driving on a couple of them. Now, I'd probably soil my britches if I tried to do that.
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i've been on some those when we lived in Wyoming, which has some of it's own, as does NM where we are now. i drove both cab and Senior Transport in Laramie before i got job at local Bank and then at the University. So i got used to driving (with cab company about once a month we had to take luggage that didn't arrive with people to some small town; or deliver film cans to movie theatre in one) so i got used to driving in all sorts of conditions. Now they don't bother me as long as there aren't a bunch of idiots on it with me driving too fast for road/weather conditions. If i have a medical appt in Albuquerque and it looks snow all day i'll reschedule rather than make the hour long drive with fools in high risk conditions.
 
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We used to fish near the Sunshine Skyway Bridge between Tampa and St. Pete thile they were building it when i was a kid. It seemed so huge and steep when we drove over it after it opened but when i went while we were in Florida caring for my Dad (he lived on one of Tampa's canals close to it) it didn't seem so bad. But by then i'd driven in the Rocky Mountains, which dwarf most everything.

Los Alamos is across the Jemez Mountains to east of us. About 20 minutes out from the western entrance to that town you start the descent from top of the ridge. Beautiful views but only passengers can really look, it is steep and has a few hairpin turns. We usually go maybe once a year because the Bradbury Science Museum there is appealing to science/history geeks like us. Keep waiting for them to reopen one of the historical site places from the mining days before it was a government facility.
 
Aunt Bea said:
The terror of Albany NY! šŸ˜±
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that wouldn't be hard for us, we have lots of roads like that in the UK....

The worst roads I've ever driven on are the steep narrow cliff roads in the mountains of Spain, (they're everywhere )... and the Alps at Chamonix on the Swiss/Italian/french border .. where they take the Cable cars up the hill because it's so steep... the road is very long , steep and windy. Today they've grown trees, and put crash barriers each side of the road, but years ago there was none of that.. and driving down that road in the snow is everyone's idea of the worst nightmare. ..especially in the dark..

I have honestly lost count of the trucks we would see which had gone over the side and were lying 50 feet over the cliff side...
 
hollydolly said:
that wouldn't be hard for us, we have lots of roads like that in the UK....

The worst roads I've ever driven on are the steep narrow cliff roads in the mountains of Spain, (they're everywhere )... and the Alps at Chamonix on the Swiss/Italian/french border .. where they take the Cable cars up the hill because it's so steep... the road is very long , steep and windy. Today they've grown trees, and put crash barriers each side of the road, but years ago there was none of that.. and driving down that road in the snow is everyone's idea of the worst nightmare. ..especially in the dark..

I have honestly lost count of the trucks we would see which had gone over the side and were lying 50 feet over the cliff side...
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i've seen some of those roads in foreign films when i was in teens and 20s and actually with Netflix and i can watch more modern ones, they are definitely 'white knuckle' drives.
 
This pic reminds me of Grampa's tales

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He kept telling me stories of his walks/hikes to school

'Kid, when I was your age it took me three hours to hike the 12 miles over the mountain to school'

He quit telling me those stories when I shot back with;

'Just think, if you'd ran, it'd only have taken an hour'
 
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