Road trip - Salt River Canyon

[Ptah]

:hi:

[Whoa_Nelly]

1. Wow!

When did you go there? Awesome teh Beautiful!

[Ptah]

2. I'm in Show Low now

[Whoa_Nelly]

3. Road tripper!

Call me soon? :D

[blueamy66]

11. love Show Low

beautiful town and great drive up from PHX

[liberaltrucker]

4. Beautiful drive

But a REAL pain in the ass if you're
pulling a 53 ft trailer. Did that back
in 2002. Looked like a good shortcut from
Holbrook to Chandler. NOT! Beautiful nevertheless.

:hi:

[A HERETIC I AM]

6. Did that a few times myself.

The first time was in the middle of the night in an old GMC cabover with no Jake Brake;



After that I decided I had to see it in the daytime and do it in a better truck. Made a few trips through there in this rig;

That was taken on the north side of the river, headed to Globe. probably about 3 or 4 miles before the bottom.

This was before the Canyon came into view, but shows how severe some of the cuts are made through the mountains;



It's a pretty drive.

[Ptah]

9. I admire your skill, that's a tough stretch of road.

[Ptah]

7. It is difficult to show just how tough a drive it is.

I get the heebie jeebies :scared: thinking about taking a truck
through there.

[denbot]

5. I used to drive from Los Angeles to Socorro N.M. via the 60.

That is a really nice drive. Watch out for those giant elk on the road!

[Ptah]

8. It really is beautiful.

No elk, but I did see four dead skunks from winkleman to globe.

[A HERETIC I AM]

10. There are so many gorgeous drives in this country.

Like Rte 128 from I-70 to Moab, UT;


It follows the Colorado River through a sort of little Grand Canyon....


The road has a "load limit" sign as you start on it near I-70 that says it's limited to 60,000 pounds. This truck grossed just over that, but I never had a problem. I've driven it maybe 3 times



Or up and over Loveland Pass in Colorado, bypassing the Eisenhower Tunnel;



In my years behind the wheel I've taken some tractor trailers on some roads I probably shouldn't have (!) but it was usually worth it. Like squeezing around and through the section of CA Rte 1 (The PCH) from US 101 to the coast from near Legget, CA and then down to Ft. Bragg. By the time I got to Ft. Bragg I had had enough, as the PCH up there is so curvy and twisty, the 53' trailer was side tracking all the way over the oncoming lane on left hand turns!

Enjoy the backroads! You never know what's around the next bend.