Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 13:42:40 -0700
Reply-To: jimt <camper@TACTICAL-BUS.INFO>
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From: jimt <camper@TACTICAL-BUS.INFO>
Subject: Re: Muir and Bentley are good but the list is great
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Due to the storms up at the divide the eisenhaur tunnel area has been on and
off chain law about every other day. A several hour closure about every 3 or
4 days. I70 also has a lane restriction as you get up towards the tunnel
for about 6 more months. A major rock slide a couple months ago punched a
hole right through two lanes of a bridge. Closed that stretch of the
highway for about 3 days while they cleaned up the slide and redid the lanes
around the hole. It was a very scenic 100 mile detour though while they did
that work. Contract for the repair is out but weather is not cooperating.
jimt
On 1/10/05 11:34 AM, "Al and Sue Brase" <albeeee@MCHSI.COM> wrote:
> Jon, Jim, John, and others:
> Well, if it were smooth sailing, where's the fun in that? Several times
> in crossing the rockies, I've been in places where you had to have
> chains to get through. And then I had to wait 12 hours to do that!
> There were back int the 70's and in California. Maybe things are better
> now, but I doubt you can out guess mother nature!
> Just be sure you take tire chains (cables), 4 good snow tires on
> vehicle, blankets and other important survival stuff.
> I think as long as you stay along major interstates, it'll be piece of
> cake!
> Last year Sue and I drive Interstate 80 bake from the east coast in
> January and got into a terrible snow/ ice storm in Indiana/ Illinois.
> After we got west of Chicago (and only 5 hours from home in usual
> circustances),
> we decided to spend the night in a rest area.. On the rest of the trip,
> the sun and highway departments had made the highways pretty damn nice,
> and we got a very good view of over 200 cars in the ditches!
> Not us, though!
> Al Brase
> 91 GL
>
> Anonymous Digest wrote:
>
>> In <BE07E73F.701B%camper@tactical-bus.info>, on 01/10/05
>> at 08:03 AM, jimt <camper@TACTICAL-BUS.INFO> said:
>>
>>
>>
>>> On 1/10/05 7:49 AM, "Anonymous Digest" <jbrush@AROS.NET> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>>> The vanagon runs
>>>>> better than I had hoped (so far) but needs a test drive so I am going to
>>>>> head out to the rocky mtns. for a while. I will be heading from Memphis,
>>>>> TN to just west of Denver, CO over the next few days so anyone along that
>>>>> route keep your eyes opened for a brown westy.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> You know, there might be better places to take your van for a test drive
>>>> right now than into the rockies. We are having a great winter, tons of
>>>> white stuff, and a lot of cold weather. Several folks I know are stranded
>>>> there right now, and more storms are coming across Utah into Colorado,
>>>> making life on the road interesting.
>>>>
>>>> To each his own tho. Have fun.
>>>>
>>>> John
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Storms are on the other side of the divide right now and up in the high
>>> passes. Colorado is a state of extremes. Here in denver it is 50
>>> degrees for highs today with clear skies. 60 miles up to the divide and
>>> the forecast is freezing with heavy snows.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Sorry, don't know what I was thinking. I thought sure it was wintertime in
>> the rockies..... <shrug> but I forgot that Denver isn't in the mountains
>> and it that doesn't snow there. He said he did say he was going west of
>> Denver, to the rocky mountains, but as long as all the storms are on the
>> other side, I am sure they will stay there and not be of any concern, so I
>> shouldn't have said anything.
>>
>> Never mind.
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>>
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