Driving through Colorado back roads...
Driving the back roads of Colorado in the winter presents itself as extreme driving.
The run from Montrose to Dallas and back goes to Gunnison, then South on Colorado 114 to Saguache, then across the San Luis Valley to tackle LaVeta Pass, then Raton Pass. With these passes behind you put her in the wind for the downhill dash across the corner of NM into the TX panhandle and into Dallas for delivery. Hawks has been in trucking in Montrose for near on 100 years. I am proud to be a part of the team .
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One photo is San Luis Valley in better weather. Winter storm dumped there last week, a three wire snowfall(up to the third wire on a four strand barbed wire fence.)
Cochetopa Pass is on 114 so that is the other pass on route. Don't forget to add Cerro&Little Blue.
Lots of passes to pull, still think southbound it would be easier to go over Red Mountian, Molas, and coal Bank Pass, down through the beuatiful Animas river Valley and Durnago and head south for Texas, cutyour passes down to just three. Horse sale, LaJunta, Colorado in late April 1962 Don and I rode over those same passes with a big truck load of horsesd as passengers with one of the Hawks drivers. Dad, Tad, and Pat followed inthe Ford truck with horses. That particular trip we must have had at least thirty head. They also took a load of wild broncs that Tad could not even break, Dad got them from bill Smith to the horse sale in Grand Junction just to get them out of town. Livestock buyer from Montrose saw us bring the load in and bought them without even taking them off the truck, all he saw was their bellies. It was a rank load, prior to leaving Montrose for Alaska, my girlfriend and I broke up, her name was Polly Lindfelt, her dad was the buyer of that load of broncs. He assumed he was buying a truck load of good horses, they were rank evenhad one go over the top of the beraking corral at the place out easty of town and that coral was at least seven feet high. The only time that I ever saw Dad or Tad backdown on trying to break a horse.
what a good story...dad i hope you write these down somewhere...keep on truckin uncle bill...love and hugs from up North...Lance Makey is leading the Yukon Quest..not by much...but it's not over yet.
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