Sunday, October 9, 2016

We Survived 550

This is a post card at a Visitor's Center in Ouray, after we came from Durango. We have been on this highway before, and it's scary enough with dry pavement and sunny skies! We sure had a scary experience on this road this time!
Raining, with some snow mixed in....

and a little more snow

This is not good!

and it kept getting worse!

Oh my....all this along with hairpin turns, switchbacks and super deep drop-offs on the sides.... This went on for a while.....It was so very scary!

You couldn't even see Silverton down in the valley when we went by there...and once, on yet another steep incline, the two people in front of us started spinning their tires and stopped...so we had to also...it was awful!  We came across this semi jack-knifed.
I was sooo glad to be out of that area with the bad roads!