… Welcome to Wales. You only come here for the scenery; the helta-skelta inclines and to see how good ya brakes are 
The decent into Elgol on the isle of skye. I have taken a 15m coach on it a few times and it’s a scary one when the surface is wet. Getting back up is actually easier if you kick the passengers off and take a run at it or else it’ll stall.
stagedriver:
The decent into Elgol on the isle of skye. I have taken a 15m coach on it a few times and it’s a scary one when the surface is wet. Getting back up is actually easier if you kick the passengers off and take a run at it or else it’ll stall.
Dont pick them up in the first place. problem solved
I drove for Earthline for a bit. Steepest descent of my driving career. Went to Cleavers and it levelled off but didn’t rise. 
Chester 1, your photos of the snowy mountain roads, is that the old Pamplona route before they built tunnels and viaducts near Sunbilla ?
Somosierra north of Madrid was a challenge for the brake fade along with the old Ip5 in Guarda .
toby1234abc:
Chester 1, your photos of the snowy mountain roads, is that the old Pamplona route before they built tunnels and viaducts near Sunbilla ?
Somosierra north of Madrid was a challenge for the brake fade along with the old Ip5 in Guarda .
No Toby nowt so glamorous it’s the national 66 between epinal and Mulhouse. saves a few quid in tolls if going Swiss . People stopped using it late 90s as they put a weight limit in one of the towns so had to use motorway via Strasbourg but they have bypassed a few villages and now only a 10 - 6 ban in bussang iirc
Not a long one, but difficult, the Avon gorge near Linlithgow. Depending which way you do it, 10% one side, with bends, followed by single file bridge at bottom 15% up the other side with almost hairpin bend and then blind junction at top you have to stop at, to give your hill start a real test. No safety barriers if you get it wrong.
That A59 Blubberhouses road can be a little bit scary when driving the ‘canyon’ side 
Very twisty too and a tad narrow in places. Some of its closed now due to landslide fears. Does it affect anyone on here as it’s long detour round?
That A59 Blubberhouses road can be a little bit scary when driving the ‘canyon’ side Very twisty too and a tad narrow in places. Some of its closed now due to landslide fears. Does it affect anyone on here as it’s long detour round?
Are you still shaking?
Hence the double post! 
Evil8Beezle:
Are you still shaking?
Hence the double post!
Yeah, a blubbering wreck.
Don’t know how that happened . Cursor got a mind of its own today
I’ve been on a Tunnel Project in Greece.
Going on a Gravel Road from Top of the Mountains. Had 2 Locomotives loaded. They drive the Tunnel along.Low Tunnel for a Water Pipeline to Athen.
Was real scary. But then they loaded Metal Panels. A Sidewalk they had behind Tunnel Drill Machine build. Such things you can’t secure properly. One Part was very Steep. Roadloader waited to pull if one does not get it up the Hill. Was OK. So it was for the one behind me.
Not interested in Off-Road driving in Mountains anymore since that Ride.
When I first started, I got the joy of a lit trailer loaded with cut timber to take to a place near yeovil. I went down the a303, in a 410 man tga with comfort shift, and all was fine until I came to the climb up out of one if the villages - can’t remember the name ATM. I couldn’t get down the gearbox quick enough, and ended up stuck halfway up - I tried every gear to pull away, the low ones were just spinning the wheels (it was damp, nighttime, and the road was greasy). Anything higher and it just stalled. In the end I reversed down to the bottom, and started again, crawling all the way up in 2nd low. Luckily so far that is my worst experience with hills, but I’m sure I’ll get some more before I hang up my keys!