Not for the Faint of Heart

The road must have been carved out of solid rock, otherwise the road would have washed away. How do you think they manage two-way traffic?


 

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18 Responses to Not for the Faint of Heart

  1. Rummuser says:

    They manage two way traffic by the simple expedient of one way in the forenoon and one way in the afternoon.

  2. Linda P. says:

    In the comments on your previous post, you mentioned that keeping up with developments in the news helped develop stress hardiness. I think all the guys in this video must have gone a long way toward developing stress hardiness! It was fun to watch!

  3. bikehikebabe says:

    There’s no two-way traffic on this road. It’s all downhill. Nobody is going to go UPHILL.

    • bikehikebabe says:

      But if an uphill car did meet a downhill car -EEEEEEK! -best thing would be to push the uphill car over the edge & get in the downhill car.

    • Jean says:

      The trouble is driving uphill is usually safe than driving downhill. Most of the vehicles going off the road in the mountains around here are trucks coming downhill.

      As far as pushing one vehicle off the road: 😀

    • bikehikebabe says:

      Neither can pass. What do you suggest? Not that one vehicle back all the way out, I hope.

    • bikehikebabe says:

      I agree most vehicles go off the road going downhill.

      Traffic stopped, I watched a man die, turn blue with a smile, his 40th B-day. The truck was off the road going uphill & I was coming down from ski touring. It only occurred to me later that he might have been saved. The driver got out.

    • Jean says:

      What to do? I liked your idea of pushing one vehicle off the road. 😀 The only alternative is for one of them to back up, slowly and carefully. I was taught that the fellow coming down had to back up because it was safer, but who knows? My solution is to try stay off roads like that.

    • bikehikebabe says:

      Well, I’d rather lose my car than try backing down that road & losing my life. We have a curvy driveway & I’ve hit the side wall a couple times, banged up the new car, so Tom backs it to the street for me. We even have the visual display in the front that shows what’s behind the car, so I don’t have to turn around.

    • bikehikebabe says:

      WHAT!!! Don’t talk about backing down that road. You’re scaring me! You haven’t lived my life. Getting down into the east of Canyon Lands & the Maze, The Silver Staircase, etc.

    • bikehikebabe says:

      It’s Canyonlands. I know better than my Speller, which didn’t like it as one word.

    • Jean says:

      It sounds as if the video brought up a lot of old memories. 🙂

  4. tammyj says:

    OMG
    i couldn’t even make it through the full three minutes of it!!!
    how many lost their lives BUILDING IT! I wonder?
    simply amazing.
    talk about arm chair traveling monk! LOL. thanks.

  5. Rummuser says:

    If by within a margined time the scheduled traffic does not reach the destination on either side, help goes and all traffic is held up. The journeys are usually in convoys.

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