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'91 K5 Four Wheel Camper

This is the build for my 1991 V1500 Blazer, AKA the K5.3. It started out life being sold to the U.S. Government with a 350 TBI/700r4/241 combo. 4 years with a 5.3/700r4 Combo and now moving to an 8.1L Vortec and NV4500 5-speed.
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Here you go. Not mine. Just a Google pic.

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Bear bear is the mother load. People die on that. I can see it being a bucket list item. And it was on mine at one time. It was on both of ours. ( My buddy) It's not now. Call me a pussy, whatever I don't care. It's not the trail so much as the other straight billed wearing retards with their JKs. that is more of the problems these days.
Heard alot about backups on the weekends.
Especially people with oversized rigs running it. And I think that was with the one way rule in affect.

I wouldn't even bother without a cage, Even though that wouldn't even matter if you went...
 
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Here is the last death I know about... Mid 2000s or something. Older couple from Missouri..
If I recall correctly...
 
I don't have any pictures on my phone, but I have had my '70 (in my avatar) over black bear and Imogene passes. It's more intimidation factor than anything. Just use your head.
I have a picture looking out over the hood of my '70, of Telluride, from one of the switchback.
I've done it in a stock '95 S10 blazer too!
 
@beags86 The pucker factor is an issue. Check this pic out for scale:

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Yikes! That's steep!
 
Those are the fun ones. I've been on some roads in my old jeep Cherokee where there was a washout and you barely had enough room to squeeze through. We have some roads that are barely 2 vehicles wide down in Utah with a sheer cliff that you tow a camp trailer up. If a dumbass happens to not see someone coming up/down and you have to pass in the middle you gotta put your trailer tires right on the very edge. Pretty sketchy but you just pray the road doesn't happen to give out. I always wanted to go do that trip when I was in Moab, guess I will just have to drive a little farther and go do it someday still.
 
In honor of throwback Thursday, here's some pics from a weekend trip me, my son, Larry and our buddy Mark and Larry's neighbor Pete went on a while ago. In the line of steep as Shelf climbs/decents, this one took us up to the top of Mt. Antero. The trail tops out just above 13,000ft. Well above timberline and narrow as hell for a K5 and K10 on 35's.

Here is the lower portion, still above timberline:
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For a sense of scale, here's Larry's K10 (pre-camper era) above me:
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Looking down on a Jeeper:
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Now from Larry's truck looking back at mine:
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The Steepness shows at the switchbacks:
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Long shot:
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I will say this, I'm much more comfortable climbing up stuff like this than coming down. There's a pretty good reason, neither of us took any pics coming down. We were a little preoccupied with the decent. Just got to take it slow.
 
6872xtc said:
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Now that your thread is derailed, if you get a chance to get over to the San Juans, I would like the chance to run a trail with you. I know that @500$k5 is always game for a run as well!!
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I know we will be running right through your back yard on the way back from the desert trip. Larry has brought up catching the Rimrocker trail that leads from Montrose to Moab for the way back home. We've got a time crunch to get to Moab on the first day out, so the return run is ideal for hitting the Rimrocker for the way back. Plans are pretty fluid at this point as most of what I read on the trail indicates it's best to run it over two days. In order to do that we might be getting out of Utah a day early to facilitate that run. If you have any experience with the trail definitely let me know as I'd like to have a little more knowledge of the area for the run.

I know my buddy John has been itching to hit the San Juans so I'll have to hook up with you on that!
 
Sorry, but I have no knowledge of rimrocker. I haven't heard anything about it, so now I'm going to ask around.
 
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