Mountain driving for a flat lander

Summer will be no issue. West bound into SLC is a piece of cake, except for winds between Cheyenne and Rawlins (Elk Mountain especially). As far as hills...nothing to write home about, if you have done some of the grades in TN and the south, or WV area....nothing that steep on I-80 east of SLC. If you go to Ogden, you won't need to worry about the long down grade known as Parley's Canyon, since you will take I-84 just west of the UT scale and it will take you directly into Ogden.

 

there gona be thre steep heels betwin evenston and UT state lane. I usualy go 80mph down to build momentum for going up. and than before ut port of entry u gona descent not very steep. if you gona take i84 there gona be some 55mph twisty road. Now they make you wear chains at those hills first 30 miles on I80

 

Pay attention to the signs.
Watch the wind gusts.
Steady on yer roll there driver.

 

Drive the road not the reputation!

 

a month ago was in the Petro in Laramie cold windy night
driver was going on how he told his dispatcher how he wasn't moving until weather improved
i said i'll see you in April as i left


honestly 80 in WY is like everywhere else in the country
pay attn to conditions act accordingly

 

If you can drive in w.va you can drive anywhere

 

I disagree with some of this. I've driven the 80 westbound thru Nebraska and Wyoming into SLC quite a bit lately, and got some really nasty weather - really nasty. Plus, there's a real life mountain between Cheyanne and Rawlins, like 8,600' above sea level. There are a lot of hills in WV, for sure, just got out of there with my turbo screeching, nursing a load to Laredo, but there isn't anything over 4,000' in WV. Hills, that's what they got, although they do have a lot of them. If you have a GVW over 75K, those long pulls out of Cheyenne and into SLC can be really slow, especiallly if you get some of that 30mph-60mph headwinds out of the west. There's a reason why the Wyoming highway police shut down over 70mph - trucks can actually turn over from the wind force. Not a lot of that happening back east. Anyway, mountain driving, for my work, involves being patient, just rolling an easy gear up to the top and not flogging my rig to gain another 30sec. Just take it easy, it's cake. Last thing, I use more fuel with heavy loads and mountains, and don't arrive as quickly, so I watch my budget pretty carefully. Taking it easy helps with that.