How driving I-70 in Colorado is like an extreme sport

I write this as a passenger in a car driving in the westbound lanes of Interstate 70 amid Colorado’s steep, climbing Rocky Mountains. Between the dangerous rockslides, the avalanches, crossing deer and elk, and hazardous weather, including ice and fog, my destination — winter sports — isn’t my first extreme adventure of the day.

A rockslide on Monday sent tank-sized boulders crashing along and, in some cases, right through, the curviest part of I-70’s Glenwood Canyon, an already nerve-wracking stretch of road. Last month, a five-foot wall of snow stretching for 50 feet along the highway near Vail Pass came rumbling down. Luckily in both cases, nobody was harmed.

This morning, yet another avalanche struck. This one closed U.S. Highway 6 over Loveland Pass.

So… get past all that, past Vail Pass, past Glenwood Canyon, and there are elk roaming right across Interstate 70 between Glenwood and Grand Junction especially in the spring.

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