Extreme Off-Roading

We'll start with the Hummers climbing exercise on The Lions Back, Moab, Utah:
(found on Pic.Tiexue.net, pictures courtesy The Hummer Network, photographer Bill Damm)









For the first person perspective going down, click here


Scary roads do not get "better" than this:
Carhuaz Valley road in Peru on the way to Chavin De Huantar ruins.





(images credit: Terrax)


Meanwhile in the US mountains...
Flat Iron Mesa in Moab, Utah:


(image credit: Whitey)


Black Bear Pass, Colorado


(images credit: RJsfun)





Webster Pass - top shelf road:




Schofield Pass - Devil's punchbowl with snow:




Cliffhanger - Moab, Utah:


(images credit: RJsfun)

"The Cliffhanger is the worst feeling because it's less than 3' to a very very long freefall."


Santa Fe Peak, Colorado, and switchback road near the top of Mt. Antero:





(images credit: Octoberist)


Bridge at the Rollins Pass:



Looking down when driving across the bridge:


(images credit: Arlo Guthro)


Shelf road on Radical Hill:


(image credit: DaJudge)


And probably the hairiest of all -
Negotiating top of the Pearl Pass, Colorado, in a thunderstorm:


(images credit: 86Original)

Send us your own scary / exciting extreme off-roading pictures, for the next adrenalin-charges post.

Off-roading's Humble Beginnings

The 20s had more mud and fewer roads, of course.