Colorado Trip for Newbies

why? isn't that supposed to be one of the best ones?

 

Apparently it's the hardest one and more for crawlers than overlanders, I'd be curious to see what he says though

 

Nope, Black Bear is only "hard" because it's a shelf road (off camber in places towards the drop) with tight switchbacks (First Few, MT makes this extra "fun") at a high elevation that causes people to make bad choices on wheel placement/ over correct.

It's a fine line to be comfortable with wheels right on edge of cliff, because most choose what they think is the safe option and go mountain side, then their wheel start climbing and either Physics or panic over correction puts them over the side.

Edit: Imogene is the better/ more scenic Pass for me and you could combine with Ophir Pass to skip BBP if you want.

Other places in Area Alpine Loop, Yankee Boy Basin (Can be combined when running Imogene either direction)

 

Truck rolled on Black Bear last week.