Jon, Jim, John, and others:
Well, if it were smooth sailing, where's the fun in that? Several times
in crossing the rockies, I've been in places where you had to have
chains to get through. And then I had to wait 12 hours to do that!
There were back int the 70's and in California. Maybe things are better
now, but I doubt  you can out guess mother nature!
Just be sure you take  tire chains (cables),  4 good snow tires on
vehicle, blankets and other important survival stuff.
I think as long as you stay along major interstates, it'll  be piece of
cake!
Last year  Sue and I drive Interstate 80 bake from the east coast in
January and got into a terrible  snow/ ice storm in Indiana/ Illinois.
After we got west of Chicago (and only 5 hours from home in usual
circustances),
we decided to spend the night in a rest area.. On the rest of the trip,
the sun and highway departments had made the highways pretty damn nice,
and we got a very good view of over 200 cars in the ditches!
Not us, though!
Al Brase
91 GL

Anonymous Digest wrote:

>In <BE07E73F.701B%camper@tactical-bus.info>, on 01/10/05
>   at 08:03 AM, jimt <camper@TACTICAL-BUS.INFO> said:
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>>On 1/10/05 7:49 AM, "Anonymous Digest" <jbrush@AROS.NET> wrote:
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>>>>The vanagon runs
>>>>better than I had hoped (so far) but needs a test drive so I am going to
>>>>head out to the rocky mtns. for a while. I will be heading from Memphis,
>>>>TN to just west of Denver, CO over the next few days so anyone along that
>>>>route keep your eyes opened for a brown westy.
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>>>You know, there might be better places to take your van for a test drive
>>>right now than into the rockies. We are having a great winter, tons of
>>>white stuff, and a lot of cold weather. Several folks I know are stranded
>>>there right now, and  more storms are coming across Utah into Colorado,
>>>making life on the road interesting.
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>>>To each his own tho. Have fun.
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>>>John
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>>Storms are on the other side of the divide right now and up in the high
>>passes.  Colorado is a state of extremes.  Here in denver it is 50
>>degrees for highs today with clear skies.  60 miles up to the divide and
>>the forecast is freezing with heavy snows.
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>Sorry, don't know what I was thinking. I thought sure it was wintertime in
>the rockies..... <shrug> but I forgot that Denver isn't in the mountains
>and it that doesn't snow there. He said he did say he was going west of
>Denver, to the rocky mountains, but as long as all the storms are on the
>other side, I am sure they will stay there and not be of any concern, so I
>shouldn't have said anything.
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>Never mind.
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>John
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