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1. LostMyLogin · 1790698690 · focus · HN ↗

   I drive this road regularly in the winter for backcountry skiing and I truly think there are scarier roads. Sure there is a terrifying cliff but in general it's not bad if you simply drive to the conditions.

   The ten miles or so on the Aspen side of Independent Pass, when leaving town, is so much worse. It feels like a true single lane road at points with a huge cliff on one side that has the road caving in.

   1. cucumber3732842 · 1790698893 · focus · HN ↗

      The highways are never a problem. However "scary" the highways are in any given place the local roads are worse and people's driveways are worse still.

      So of course nobody cares about two cars a year going off a cliff on the federal highway when ten cars a year go off a cliff on the road that's the local shortcut between the center of town and Walmart in the next valley or whatever.

      1. LostMyLogin · 1790699062 · focus · HN ↗

         > The highways are never a problem. However "scary" the highways are in any given place the local roads are worse and people's driveways are worse still.

         I've driven sketchy roads all over the world and the stretch just after you break out of the aspen outskirts on Independent Pass is genuinely terrifying at parts. For a while there it was not uncommon, if two large vehicles were passing, to have a section of your right front wheel barely over the cliff as there was a part of the outer edge line missing because the road caved in.

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