This is horrifying.

spartacus

spartacus

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The guy who caught this on his dash is extremely Lucky too.
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It is one of the craziest videos I had seen. If he wouldn't have got hung up in the corner before, the rolling vehicle would have two him out too.
Wasn't there something about a date g was in the rolling vehicle?
 
That was a crazy over the cliff crash! Thanks for the follow up link.
Good to hear the people are on the way to recovery and both dogs were found.
People took time out of their day to help out. Such great people!
 
You have to be very careful and somewhat experienced doing Black Bear and others like Schofield Pass. You have to know what to do after your brakes get wet and how the soil is after rain. You also need to never park on sloped ground. I am not sure what led up to this but it is horrific indeed. I have done Black Bear several times and it still freaks me out at the Staircase. If your brakes fail there, you are toast.
 
A buddy of mine and I did Black Bear not quite 2 weeks before this incident happened. We did Poughkeepsie Gulch, Hurricane Pass and Corkscrew Pass prior to hitting Black Bear. A little ways before where this video begins (which is heading down to the first switchback turn on Black Bear) are what are referred to as the steps. There's a small waterfall right next to the descent. When we got to the bottom of the steps there was a Mercedes sedan with a flat tire parked next to the pool at the bottom of the waterfall, just off the trail. No idea what it was doing there. Obviously someone had abandoned it there and had doubtless driven it up from Telluride, even though it's one way coming down until you get to Bridal Veil Falls, which is where the serious switchbacks end (there are additional switchbacks but they're nowhere near as technical as the one's down to that point) . Never heard anything after the fact about that car being there, or how it got there.
 
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Jimmy_D said:
A buddy of mine and I did Black Bear not quite 2 weeks before this incident happened. We did Poughkeepsie Gulch, Hurricane Pass and Corkscrew Pass prior to hitting Black Bear. A little ways before where this video begins (which is heading down to the first switchback turn on Black Bear) are what are referred to as the steps. There's a small waterfall right next to the descent. When we got to the bottom of the steps there was a Mercedes sedan with a flat tire parked next to the pool at the bottom of the waterfall, just off the trail. No idea what it was doing there. Obviously someone had abandoned it there and had doubtless driven it up from Telluride, even though it's one way coming down until you get to Bridal Veil Falls, which is where the switchbacks pretty much come to an end. Never heard anything after the fact about that car being there, or how it got there.
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Was it out of the way or did it effect your line?. There is a little section by that water fall where you skid just a little sideways and and if you slam on your brakes it makes it titer tote.
 
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