Instead of muddling up the Colorado monsoons thread with some stupid pictures here are a couple of vehicles that tried to take a detour with no idea of where they were going. I don't think that any GPS or mapping software would of sent the drivers to these places.
This first one is of a truck that headed up a mine road and then past the mine turn off. He hit some very sharp switchbacks and then decided to try and back down. His backing skill is about as good as his map reading skills are.
This one is a Grayhound bus that the driver decided to make a road off of the Flat Tops Wilderness ares to Glenwood Springs. I guess he figured that he could go down Coffee Pot road and get a cup of coffee before he went on his jolly way. He did manage to tear out the oil pan in the bus and was left stranded. He was just lucky that there was cel phone coverage where he ended up at.
A rescue truck full of passengers luggage
I'm sure that before we are done with the closure we will add to these pictures. One road that people can get through has had county employees standing by to stop the idiots that are driving vehicles that are over 35 feet in length. In closures before this one semis have tried to navigate it and end up stuck or rolled over in a ditch when they try to turn around. I took this road the other day and was surprised at the size of box trucks that they were allowing to travel on it. I came close to having a head on with one of these box trucks on a blind corner when he decided to take it wide. It was a good thing that I know how to drive these type of roads and am usually ready for some idiot to come around the corner and taking it too wide.
This first one is of a truck that headed up a mine road and then past the mine turn off. He hit some very sharp switchbacks and then decided to try and back down. His backing skill is about as good as his map reading skills are.
This one is a Grayhound bus that the driver decided to make a road off of the Flat Tops Wilderness ares to Glenwood Springs. I guess he figured that he could go down Coffee Pot road and get a cup of coffee before he went on his jolly way. He did manage to tear out the oil pan in the bus and was left stranded. He was just lucky that there was cel phone coverage where he ended up at.
A rescue truck full of passengers luggage
I'm sure that before we are done with the closure we will add to these pictures. One road that people can get through has had county employees standing by to stop the idiots that are driving vehicles that are over 35 feet in length. In closures before this one semis have tried to navigate it and end up stuck or rolled over in a ditch when they try to turn around. I took this road the other day and was surprised at the size of box trucks that they were allowing to travel on it. I came close to having a head on with one of these box trucks on a blind corner when he decided to take it wide. It was a good thing that I know how to drive these type of roads and am usually ready for some idiot to come around the corner and taking it too wide.
