Topic: The Ultimate Shelf Road - Any Idea If This Is Real?

[blackdiamond]

This picture showed up on my Facebook page when a friend commented on it.  It really looks like a real photo and based on its posting is hanging on the wall of a new bar and grill in town.  At some point you just have to crawl out the back and leave it where you parked it.

[yotaneck13]

if that is real that was a sketchy ride to that point

[BoG-ToY]

its probably real, Ive seen stuff like that before... who knows how wide it was getting up there... and if its SOLID ROCK... not that scary..

Fade has a picture in his posting that looks way out in the woods, he says its 10 yards off a paved road, that picture doesnt show whats ahead or whats behind

[Quick Draw]

My grandpa has a Colorado 4x4 trails book from the 70s or something, and I'm pretty sure this picture was in it.  So for that reason, I want to say it is in CO somewhere... but I will have to look into it.  It was also used by Warn as an advertisement later on...

[Quick Draw]

Found it!  Yep, it's in Telluride, CO:  http://flashoffroad.com/Articles/blackbear/blackbear.htm

[Quick Draw]

Except that I just read this:  "This picture was from a 1975 Warn winch add. I found out that this picture may not be from Black Bear but it demonstrates how narrow and scary this trail really is."

The search continues.

[86bobbedtoy]

crazyness,
id do it

[blackdiamond [OP]]

I've been over Black Bear many times and there's nothing anywhere close to this narrow on that trail.  Webster Pass in Colorado is probably the more narrow pass I've seen and it's much better than this picture.

[86bobbedtoy]

bardies bar from hwy 70 is twice that wide but has eroded to about that,
a full size is right at the edge and pushin it, when I was 12 my sisters bf took us down it in a big chevy and I swear his outer tires were hangin off, and he was haulin as$
its a big canyon and almost straight down

not to mention its all slate rock and its always movin

[peacesells]

There are plenty of old mine roads like that here in AZ. Every year or 2 a group in an suv gets lost, ends up on one, slides off, and dies...

[Rocksurfer]

I've seen that picture in an ad, the location and the Jeep may be real but it was probably put there and not driven or like in some previous posts it's not as bad as it looks.

[Stocker]

If it was as bad as it looks in that photo, count me out. I am not insane, nor do I have a death wish.... and that's just plain crazy.