Should have bought a hummer I guess. :cry: I'm sure I could have gotten at leat another 12 inches into the snowbank if I had one.... Totally worth the 10mpg :roll:
This is cumberland pass in Colorado, about 11,500 feet elevation where the giant drift was.
how's it like breathing way up there?
its reminiscent of the alps we drove thru on my recent trip to germany :wink:
Beautiful country! Reminds me of 4-wheeling in Ouray, Colorado with my brother. We both wished we had a VW-turbo-diesel powered suzuki, but the full size Jeep Pickup with thirty somthing inch tires and lockers front and rear did the trick. I remember getting a little bit of a headache at 13,000 ft though!
And I just thoughts of some more VW Diesel content: during that trip on one of the 4x4 trails, we found stranded on the side of a road the remaining scraps that once were a Diesel import Pickup truck. I popped the "hood" and what do you know, there was a VE injection pump with atmospheric compensating device on the top! I made everyone in our Jeep group wait until I could successfully extract its atmospheric compensating VE governor cover (about the only item of value left on the truck's remains) :lol:
Yeah, it's beautiful up there. Here's the picture looking the other way from that point. I live between 7,600 and 9,200 feet, so I'm somewhat used to the altitude. Going over 12,000 foot passes the car bogs a little at higher RPM especially though. But you don't need rpm for trails like this.
