Mountain Driving

[srappleby]

Originally Posted by linchat

Drove the Rockies last year, your going to love the 7% grades over 2-3 miles lol. I am used to the southern flat lands and hills. So the Rockies was a bit wild.



Likes others said, keep your speed down, be patient and like a car do not ride you breaks. Your are better off with a good hard 2-3 second break to drop your speed 10-15 mph then riding the breaks down 10-15 mph. Then let breaks cool and let the tran help maintain / engine break speed down.



In those 7% declines, I do not think my engine break did much of anything. lol.



Like someone else said, if you loose you speed going up, your are not going to get the speed back up (esp if your towing). So ride up the mountain slowly and enjoy.

Thank you