Worst mountain

http://www.scn.org/sbtp/swbk-defex.html

 

This is NOT White Bird in Idaho, it is Berthoud Pass in Co. but you can get a better idea of a "modern" switchback road.

Stan

 

There aren't many highways in my home state that I've never been over, but that IS one of them!

aka: "Hair Pin Curves."

 

Switchbacks are a waste of blacktop, Straight up, and straight down , separates the real drivers from the wanabees. Even more fun when covered in a sheet of ice an inch thick. They don't believe in wasting blacktop on the width of the lanes either just enough to fit a truck.

Want to see the results of not knowing how to drive the pass, just check out the collection of mangled trucks at columbia towings yard in Golden BC

 

You must have been drunk. First off i do not consider mount eagle a mountain.. Last but not least how do you get there going from knoxville to nashville?????????

 

I am not as think as you stone I am LOL

 

Easy, you leave Nashville on I-24/I-65, stop at the Flying J in Reseca, Ga for fuel and then go up I-75 to Knoxville. LOL

 

I came off of it empty and it was a nasty pass (lowboy, so, about 45,000lbs. when empty). It's a rather famous pass for mud and rock slides, if its been raining recently it's typically not advised that you try to get over it. If I had run over it loaded (I was 107,000lbs. delivering a Leibherr claw to tear down a drilling rig) I can assure you I would have been in the last couple of gears getting to the summit on the north-face. Not a position you want to be in on a narrow two-laner when you're oversize. I do remember going through a section on the south-face where the road was deteriorating (i.e. falling off the side of the mountain), a boulder had come across the highway. There are sections where you have no center-line for lanes and you need to be looking well ahead.

The only reason to run McClure Pass is if you have a delivery or pick-up somewhere between Delta and Somerset. It will cut about two hours and 120 miles off of your trip versus going the long way to Grand Junction, along 50, up 92 and onto 133.

One of the worst passes I've seen trucks go up is Guanella Pass from the Georgetown side. I never drove this pass personally, but, the driver's who taught me to drive did when they were paving the pass over. Typically there is a 35-foot OAL limit on the pass because of how tight the switchbacks get. No other oversize company around town would touch the job because it was so tight moving 325 excavators, 627 Scrapers, and other machinery on the pass. Whenever we ran up onto the pass they would shut down all traffic so the driver could move the machines. We were using a 3-axle flip-tail with axles fairly far forward on it, and even with that only about 3 of the trucks these guys owned could clear the pass.

This is one of the more generous switchbacks on Guanella:

 

Sorry I did not think to take that shortcut!!!! Sorry for my mistake.

 

forgot the highway but it was the only way in and out of angel fire nm......your outside duals hang over the edge on every curve and you had to watch for on coming trafic as there wasn;t enough room for the both of you .....had a regular customer there should never have taken a job where all the customers where ski lodges in co nm and az ....but i loved the local that called my dispatcher told him i was on a non truck route asked him how else i was supposed to get to bfe.....of course residential deliveries in vail suck too just saying