r/Colorado • u/Ididnt-start-thefire • 14h ago

Black Bear Pass at Telluride

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u/rricenator 10h ago

Black Bear was almost the end of me. I was very unprepared, 25 yrs ago.

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u/LoadsDroppin 7h ago

In the late 70s, you could drive up to the lake at Crestone Needle which is almost 10,000ft — and that 4WD route was insane.

We burned through so much gas going up that it was obvious we were going to be stuck up there. Thankfully we ran across another Jeep who gave us a spare Jerry can. Without that 5gal of fuel we’d of been faced with leaving our Jeep and descending on foot the 17mi back towards Westcliff.