Geronimo
Well-Known Member
They did it in 2017 in August for a fact. We went to do the trail on that day and had to set and wait at the staging area for two hours till they finished. Then the Forest service opened it up again. If we had known we would have ran to Telluride to run it that direction.I've been pretty much all over the San Juans....Maggie and Minnie Gulch and Poughkeepsie come to mind as ones not suitable to an Accord, but there are plenty of passenger sedans cruising the Alpine loop. Most of the area is a regularly graded gravel road with steep sections and the occasional mud hole with a solid, rock base.
As for going the wrong way up Black Bear....just looked into the Telluride Rotary Club's website. I *appears* they haven't done the "Wrong Way" Black Bear pass run since 2010 or so. JFYI.
The Teluride Rotary Club can call the county and or sheriffs dept.,or forest service and update their website and information.
I only brought up the alpine San Juan trails to show the need for deeper gears during very long descents. Not for it to become a debate on what a compact car can or cannot do on the Alpine loop or on Hell's Revenge for that matter.
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