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This is not the place to trust the emergency brake.
I was on a lesser trail around the same time as that incident. We were going downhill, on a trail that was not as steep as that one, and needed to stop for the call of nature. I found a wide enough spot, put on the emergency brake, and tested it. The Jeep still wanted to roll slightly, so we went further down until I found another turnout that had a little turn up on the edge of it that would stop the tires, then we stopped there. I still put on the ebrake just in case, but neither of us stayed in the vehicle.
 

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Holy cow! It barely missed you.
 

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Man. How scary to come that close to getting clobbered by a falling vehicle.

I had been trying to do Black Bear for years and every time i had a trip planned it was closed for one reason or another. My woman and I did a CO vacation this summer, and rented a jeep sahara to go do it. It was her first mountain offroad experience, but after some initial hesitation had a great time. Its worth doing @Tiger1

Its a great road to drive and experience, with great views, you just need to pay attention to where your wheels are pointed and have a little common sense.
 

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Man. How scary to come that close to getting clobbered by a falling vehicle.

I had been trying to do Black Bear for years and every time i had a trip planned it was closed for one reason or another. My woman and I did a CO vacation this summer, and rented a jeep sahara to go do it. It was her first mountain offroad experience, but after some initial hesitation had a great time. Its worth doing @Tiger1

Its a great road to drive and experience, with great views, you just need to pay attention to where your wheels are pointed and have a little common sense.
Every year more knuckleheads want to do it and with COVID this year it was a parking lot on weekends.
 

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The most tragic part of this story is the injury of the two innocent victims... (the woman and dog who were left in the Jeep when the driver got out.)
 

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This is not the place to trust the emergency brake.
I was on a lesser trail around the same time as that incident. We were going downhill, on a trail that was not as steep as that one, and needed to stop for the call of nature. I found a wide enough spot, put on the emergency brake, and tested it. The Jeep still wanted to roll slightly, so we went further down until I found another turnout that had a little turn up on the edge of it that would stop the tires, then we stopped there. I still put on the ebrake just in case, but neither of us stayed in the vehicle.
Are you saying this driver was driving down that steep slope and put the emergency brake on and got out ?
 

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Every year more knuckleheads want to do it and with COVID this year it was a parking lot on weekends.
Most of colorado is a parking lot on the weekends in the summer. Lol.
 

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Most of colorado is a parking lot on the weekends in the summer. Lol.
Not really, you can still find a lot of places to get away and not see many people. The popular passes are those 'badge of honor', or whatever they call it trails. Everybody wants to do them once a year.
 

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Every year more knuckleheads want to do it and with COVID this year it was a parking lot on weekends.
The area has been overrun and is crazy crowded now. I think we'll still go for our yearly trip but if we wheel it will only be on the weekdays.
 
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The areas has been overrun and is crazy crowded now. I think we'll still go for our yearly trip but if we wheel it will only be on the weekdays.
My uncle was one of the developers of Keystone ski area, so our family was part of the problem...

I used to love Colorado, and it’s still extremely beautiful, but it’s painfully crowded these days. Like Oregon, it bears no resemblance to its 1960s or 70s self.

After an absence of almost thirty years I have visited my brother near Carbondale the last two summers. I didn’t recognize the area. I used to make that drive along the river approaching Glenwood and see maybe one or two folks fly fishing over a distance of miles. This summer we came in midday on a Thursday and counted twenty-six boats between drift fishermen and rafters in that short distance. It’s as crowded as a Disney ride now, and I’d have zero interest in fishing it. For city folks it probably feels like the country. For country folks, it feels like the city. As others have observed, this is the inevitable result of adding 100,000,000 people to the country and making the cities unlivable.

Thank God for Alaska. I won’t live long enough to see that converted to Disney. :like:
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