CO Rock Slide

So which of you CO Rock climbers going to pull this out of the road?

https://www.kktv.com/content/news/Rock-slide-destroys-part-of-state-highway-510427481.html



According to CDOT, the trench was caused by the biggest boulder to fall, which weighs a whopping 8.5 million pounds and is roughly the size of a house. A second boulder landed on the highway that weighs 2.3 pounds.

I got the little one...

 

It almost did take out a car. Got only minor damage.

 

Lemme grab my tow strap, brb.

I would've LOVED to been witness to that sucker going for a tumble.

 

Someone is gonna play with fire crackers on that one, maybe...

 

Sounds like an excuse to do a Colorado Tundra rodeo @Grey Wolf in charge of beverages.

 

With over 300 micro breweries here, that's easy.

 

There are a lot of people who's weekly trip to town just got a lot longer. Hope they get it fixed quickly. A lot of those small businesses between Dolores and Telluride are going to feel it.

 

Strap on everybody!

 

HA! They brought a Tundra



https://kdvr.com/2019/05/26/crews-blast-apart-massive-boulder-that-closed-colorado-highway/

 

I may just have to run the scooter down there when it's back open and have me a gander.

 

I saw just the truck for the job yesterday.

 

You Colorado guys sure have some big stones.

 

I drove one of those things for a year running service calls. Could load a crap load of computers in it, got like 38 miles a gal, put 100,000 miles on it in a year but I sure didn't fit in the thing. I could reach over with my right hand and roll down the window without leaning.

 

The Scion line were such practical little cars. We have an XA that we have put through some torture, never failed. I love a no frills economy car. I had a hard time fitting in it too.

 

Pretty sure every male on earth would have loved to see that sucker tumbling down the hillside. I think it's hardwired into the male psyche that rocks + hill = entertainment. The bigger the rock, the bigger and steeper the hill, the better. The Woman shakes her head at me when we're out hiking and I push random rocks off cliffs. I can't be the only one.

 

Very big.....

 

Large Colorado rolling stones gather no moss....

 

He does have that rock eye going on....

 

Back in the 60s (when I was in the Boy Scouts) I witnessed a rock about this size tumble down the side of a mountain. We were hiking in the high Sierras and suddenly, across a small lake we were hiking by we were startled by the sound and could actually feel it in our feet as it came crashing down. At first we thought it was going into the lake and we were afraid of a giant tidal wave that would head right towards us. It stopped maybe a 100 feet short.

Dan