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I had never been over this pass before, but it had been on my radar for a long time. As I was driving over it, I had the old C W McCall song in my head. "Wolf Creek Pass, Way up on the Great Divide, Truckin' on down the other side." I enjoyed the drive, and the Pagosa Springs area is surprisingly beautiful. I will likely have another video in a few weeks showing the opposite direction and back again under different sky conditions.

@@ASunnyAdventure I couldn't help but wonder what it would look like in the other direction heading toward the hairpin area (in video, not in Google street view, that is). Super. I look forward to seeing that one.

@@davidborrink137 Both directions are pretty neat. Google street view never looks better than the real thing.😀

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This was my first time driving over this pass. It did not disappoint. Thanks for watching.

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Thanks. I'm glad you're enjoying the videos. I have several more videos from Colorado coming up. These videos were all filmed during the past summer. I don't have anything from the specific locations you mentioned, but there will be videos covering several mountain passes, small towns and remote roads, etc.

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Thanks for the nice comment. I'm glad you're enjoying the videos.

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This is one of the roads I'd never heard of before I started planning my route. It was just an lonely grey line on the map. Sometimes those are the best. And yes, I do like the grand open spaces.

I'm glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for the feedback on the music.

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It's great to hear that I marked another drive off your list. I hope to mark off a few more before I'm done. This was definitely an enjoyable drive to take. The pass was nice, and I especially liked how the landscape changed one we got out of the mountains. I'm with you. I love US 50.

@@ASunnyAdventure Yes, when the land changed to the more open fields and the hills with sparse trees, that was a pretty neat change.

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Thanks. I've been on parts of highway 6 before. I've also been across Highway 50 many times, but I never took the old 722 route over Carroll Summit. Now that I'm making videos, these roads are certainly on my to-do list, along with many others. I hope to get back up there someday and do some driving.

@@ASunnyAdventure 722 is one of the most beautiful drives I have been on.

@@jamesbruno2432 Good to know. I'll try to get there. Hopefully this year if I can.

I pretty much went way south in Colorado and then came back north using different routes before going kind of south again. In other words, I covered quite a bit of ground. I didn't realize at the time just how many videos I'd get out of this trip, but the videos just seem to keep coming.

@@ASunnyAdventure Cool. Getting my popcorn ready.

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It's a fact that sometimes the views behind are better than or equal to the views ahead. That's why I don't mind repeating trips going the opposite direction. There is always something new to see.

@@ASunnyAdventure I think you said you're backtracking the route across US-40 so it'll be neat to see all those neat locations but from the other way.

@@davidborrink137 Actually, I'll just be backtracking on 40 as far as Kremmling, and then heading south to Silverthorne/Frisco and beyond. I did the Kremmling to Silverthorne route last year, so that section will be somewhat of a repeat. After that, there will be many new roads and mountain passes that were new to me when I did them.

Great. Looking forward to those.

I'm glad you liked that. It's actually a second camera, though, so I can capture the road ahead and the side view at the same time.

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Yes, there was quite a bit of "washboard." All was well, though. It was nice to get off the pavement for a while. Sometimes I think it would be nice to have a 4-wheel drive vehicle and get on some really remote roads like I did in my dad's pickup truck when I was a kid in the wilds of Nevada. That's not happening any time soon, though. I'll mostly have to stick to the highway for now. Dream on.

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It started snowing and the road kept going up and up with more snow. I was getting a little concerned there because I didn't know how bad it was going to get. Obviously it turned out okay, and it was a somewhat unique (though not really rare) weather event to have experienced in July. I'm glad I got to record it.

@@ASunnyAdventure I wondered if you were "on edge" up there, because if you're below freezing temperatures, then you're facing some potential slip-offs on ice, and that's not a place you want to go off the road. I had my doubts that they ever put down salt on those roads spontaneously if there suddenly is those conditions in summer.

@@davidborrink137 Luckily the road seemed to have retained some heat from the day before, so it didn't ice up. As you saw, it did get a little slushy in places, though. I was a little "on edge.". I doubt they would put salt down. The road totally shuts down in winter, so they don't have to worry about it then. As an aside, I sometimes wonder how much salt damages the vegetation along roadways. In various other places I notice conspicuous dead trees right along the edge of the road, and I wonder if this has anything to do with treating the road. If so, they wouldn't want this to happen in the national park. Just speculating.

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I think you're right. It's hard to top this one. I wasn't sure what the highest point on this road was, so I just looked it up. It tops out at 12,183 feet. That's high enough for me.

Thank you for coming along for the ride. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

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Thank you for your nice comments. Colorado is indeed a beautiful state, and you are lucky to live there and be close to these beautiful areas. I always enjoy visiting your state. Thank you, and take care.

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It must have been a great place to grow up. It's a beautiful area.

Thank you for the nice comment. I hope you have a good time there. Winter is definitely the time to go.

Alright. We can check another one off your wish list. And just for giggles, after a few more videos, we'll drive much of this same route in the opposite direction. I agree that this road is truly a wonder. I thought about how much work went into building this road and others like it back in the day. It certainly took a lot of planning to get the route just right so they could scale the mountain and keep the grade just right. Anyhow, thanks for watching. Take care.

@@ASunnyAdventure That's neat because I'm sure there's just as much of an interesting view the other direction. Speaking of other direction, that's what you did on this one with the parkway. I know you did the other direction last year when you visited here.

@@davidborrink137 Yes, this road was interesting no matter which way I was going.

Your comment made my day. Thanks for watching, and I'm glad you enjoyed it. It is a beautiful area, and I'm happy I had the chance to visit and film it.

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