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Interesting road location
« on: October 19, 2006, 11:41:32 AM »
Think of the engineering that must have gone into this.
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Re: Interesting road location
« Reply #1 on: October 19, 2006, 11:44:31 AM »
More pics:
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Re: Interesting road location
« Reply #2 on: October 19, 2006, 12:16:04 PM »
Nick,
Where is that road exactly? I sense a new adventure...... ;)

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Re: Interesting road location
« Reply #3 on: October 19, 2006, 12:20:10 PM »
Quote from: andy750 on October 19, 2006, 12:16:04 PM
Nick,
Where is that road exactly? I sense a new adventure...... ;)

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I was just thinking the same thing.  ;D
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Re: Interesting road location
« Reply #4 on: October 19, 2006, 12:23:52 PM »
Quote from: andy750 on October 19, 2006, 12:16:04 PM
Nick,
Where is that road exactly? I sense a new adventure...... ;)
cheers
Andy

I was sent the pics by a friend. I'm waiting to find out if he knows....
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Re: Interesting road location
« Reply #5 on: October 19, 2006, 12:45:48 PM »
Quote from: andy750 on October 19, 2006, 12:16:04 PM
Nick,
Where is that road exactly? I sense a new adventure...... ;)
cheers
Andy

Road of Death
Stremnaya road is called the road of death and it's situated in Bolivia
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Re: Interesting road location
« Reply #6 on: October 19, 2006, 01:05:59 PM »
There appears to be some dispute that this road is in fact in Bolivia according to other web forums - google it and you`ll see what I mean...however Bolivia does have Yungas Road which is officially the most dangerous in the world with more than 200 deaths per year! See below.....

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Re: Interesting road location
« Reply #7 on: October 19, 2006, 01:07:23 PM »
and a few more....
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Re: Interesting road location
« Reply #8 on: October 19, 2006, 01:31:57 PM »
aint no way in hell
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Re: Interesting road location
« Reply #9 on: October 19, 2006, 02:50:09 PM »
And I though driving up & down Mauna Kea in Hawaii at 10:30 pm with just the parking lights was bad.. (NASA and all the other country's were using there telescopes) ::)
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Re: Interesting road location
« Reply #10 on: October 19, 2006, 02:52:10 PM »
You can take your "hell" .   Just "NO" from here.  Hells bells- I've fallen over in my DRIVEWAY!!!
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Re: Interesting road location
« Reply #11 on: October 19, 2006, 02:59:24 PM »
scared of heights so it would be no good for me  :-[,     mick.
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Re: Interesting road location
« Reply #12 on: October 19, 2006, 03:35:54 PM »
Quote from: dusterdude on October 19, 2006, 01:31:57 PM
aint no way in hell

I second that.

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Re: Interesting road location
« Reply #13 on: October 19, 2006, 04:14:28 PM »
the pics that nick posted are amazing!  i never knew there was such a road.  the differences between the two sets are very apparent... they don't seem like the same roads at all.  wow!  so awesome!
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Re: Interesting road location
« Reply #14 on: October 19, 2006, 04:28:56 PM »
I might try that first one, but that second one. Looked to narrow to walk down to me :)
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Re: Interesting road location
« Reply #15 on: October 19, 2006, 05:27:07 PM »
Maybe on a bicycle or motorcycle. I sure as hell wouldn't be driving those trucks, though!!
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Re: Interesting road location
« Reply #16 on: October 19, 2006, 05:28:15 PM »
Gee do ya think any of those nice truck drivers would let any one of us by them?? ;DThat one pic were the truck driver is turning into the side of the other truck .. Holy #$%*ty job man!!
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Re: Interesting road location
« Reply #17 on: October 19, 2006, 05:52:16 PM »
After a bit of onllne research I believe the road in question is in the alps.
It's called Gorge du Nan

Seems the bycycle crowd like it for tours.
http://jeanpba.free.fr/ColMontNoir_EN.html

here is a link to more photos.
http://images.google.ca/images?q=Gorge+du+Nan&ie=ISO-8859-1&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images

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Re: Interesting road location
« Reply #18 on: October 19, 2006, 05:54:42 PM »
excellent work web! 
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Re: Interesting road location
« Reply #19 on: October 19, 2006, 06:01:46 PM »
I drive my log truck on a few roads like that :)
Crease in the seat when I get done :) :)
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Re: Interesting road location
« Reply #20 on: October 19, 2006, 06:23:17 PM »
Reminds me of the road to Hana!!!!   :o
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« Reply #21 on: October 19, 2006, 06:33:55 PM »
I recognise that as the road that Scrooge McDuck,  Donald and the boys took to find the "Lost Inca Treasure" and where the Beagle boys fronted them comming the other way.....
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« Reply #22 on: October 19, 2006, 08:11:41 PM »
I've done Mount Antero, Mount Princeton, and White on a four wheeler. I can tell you.... You wont get me on those roads in boliva. You see the pics of the two trucks crunch on the same road? It was like that on there would be two dummie with suburbans that could not make the switch back with out inching back and forth.  :o

I did it once, not again if I can help it.
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Re: Interesting road location
« Reply #23 on: October 20, 2006, 12:23:15 PM »
Quote from: Rocking-M on October 19, 2006, 06:01:46 PM
I drive my log truck on a few roads like that :)
Crease in the seat when I get done :) :)

With me it'd be more like a skidmark! Nuh UH!
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Re: Interesting road location
« Reply #24 on: October 20, 2006, 01:35:27 PM »
Quote from: seaweb11 on October 19, 2006, 05:52:16 PM
After a bit of onllne research I believe the road in question is in the alps.
It's called Gorge du Nan

You could well be right. There was obviously some money behind the construction of the first post. Having said that the concept of cutting into the side of sheer rock walls has been used in other instances in the world.

Here's an example in our very own province, originally part of the Kettle Valley Railway:

http://www.great-trails.com/othello.shtml
http://www.thekvr.com/othello.cfm

Not so spectacular, but you get the drift.
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