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Just now seeing this video. Love the geology. I have a granddaughter who loved our drives and laughed when I would make the car dance to the music. Thank you.
Who would have expected a giant parking lot at the top of Pike's Peak at 14,000+ feet? LOL What a beautiful drive. Kind of scary in places, what with steep drop-offs only a foot to two-feet away from the road. I would imagine a person with acrophobia (like me) might have a little bit of a hard go of it. Thanks for sharing. I enjoy your drives to places I'll never get a chance to see for myself.
Ha I thought the same thing when I got up there, a huge parking lot seems a bit out of place. I’ll say that the drive looks scarier on the video than it is in real life. The drop offs are definitely steep, but the road is also wider and you’re farther away from the edge than it appears on the video. Thanks for your comment and thanks for watching!
@@AdventureEveryDay And more often than not, Pike's Peak is used for rally races, where drivers push their cars, and themselves, to the limits, often ending up over the edge, literally! It's nice to see Pike's Peak being used for more relaxing, scenic drives.
Love this video. First time I went up Pikes Peak I was just a little kid. Gravel road and rarely a guard rail. Dad sometimes had that '56 Buick so close to the edge.
@@jasoncarpp7742 In this video the road looks a little wider than what I remember it and going back to watch in the old home movies my mom took going up it back in the '50's.
Another great video! Thank you so much for your wonderful work! I subscribed to you channel, of course! America is amazingly beautiful! Thank you, again!
@@AdventureEveryDay Thank you for your hard work. Is the only way I can see America (I live in Romania). America sure is a blessed country! Thank you again and take care!
I am in my early 70s,my mom and dad were driving up pikes peak ,but my turned around when we met a bus on the highest areas ,he made is swear not to tell our friends when we got home to Louisiana .,LOL. This was in the 60s and that road was not paved. After watching this video,I do not blame my Dad one bit for not continuing ,We live right by the smokies and drive mountains every day ,but the summit drive would bee to much even for us.
AED, I always love returning to your vids, time and time again; it's like listening to a long rock 'n' roll jam/song, or listening to a long symphony on my stereo. AED's GREATEST hits!! You know, the color response on your cameras far surpasses nearly every movie, nearly every television program that I've ever seen, I kid you not! Say, can you recall what that event was, in that little hollow, around where the summit "plateau" was? I must have seen up to 200 cars parked there. I really hate to say this, but it sure was a bummer, a letdown, to see the entire actual summit all chewed up with construction. I very well ought to be finished by now, but re-natural-scaping the parking lot aprons is going to take considerably longer. Some Posters here, are honest-to-goshers scared out of their wits by both watching this vid, and-or actually driving, riding up/down this highway. They oughtn't be, the road appears surprisingly wide, and the the old-time design engineers literally bent over backwards (in more ways than one!), to keep the grade as gentle as they could. In the Sierra Nevada, there are twisties far narrower than this, all roads that you ought to put on your Calendar for future Shoots: 1) I think that I'd mentioned CA S.R. 89 through Lassen Volcanic National Park before, as a suggestion. 2) CA S.R. 108, Sonora Pass Eastside from the top of the Pass nearly all the way down to the United States Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center. Much of the way, it lacks median stripes, and it seems more a lane-and-a-half, than 2 lanes. 3) CA S.R. 4; Pacific Grade Summit and Ebbetts Pass. Once again, this highway narrows at many spots, to almost a single, variable "one-way" track, and many grade declivities are so rough and choppy that vehicles whose wheelbases are too long, without compensating tall under-clearance can get hung up. 4) CA S.R. 198 takes you into Sequoia National Park's Giant Forest Region. Visalia to Three Rivers is easy enough, but Amphitheatre Grade starts above Hospital Rock at about 2.5K' Elevation and bounces all over the flanks of the near-vertical canyon wall back and forth and back again, until you round Amphitheatre Point at about a mile in elevation, until you reach the lower portion of Giant Forest Sequoia Grove, but the steeps are not quite over. You climb up and up till you reach the site of the former Giant Forest Village at about 6.5K'. All of this takes about 14 miles, but it seems like forever, what with all of the countless hairpins. Now, if you DID want to do a Route Shoot for RUclips, I'd suggest that you plan to start at the freeway interchange of S.R's. 198 & 99, around downtown Visalia at about 8:00AM, and you continue on the 198, until you're a few miles West of Three Rivers and turn right onto Mineral King Road. That's got twisties with precipices and gorges, and it goes through a very arid ecosystem that's almost desert, until you hit the forest. Much of it goes through the lowest limit of the Atwell Sequoia Grove, and you've never seen such huge trees growing on such steep slopes. How can these arboreal brutes stand STRAIGHT up, without falling, under these dauntingly steep conditions? But they do, they do. You reach Mineral King Valley at road's end at about 8K'. Stop and shoot as MUCH as you can with your cameras. Backtrack all the long way to the 198 and do the big Amphitheatre Grade. Don't stop at Giant Forest, but continue on the 198, for a good many a mile until 198's junction with the 180 going into Kings Canyon National Park's General Grant Village, and continue it a good many a mile more, until you're Cedar Grove-bound. There is a starting stretch when you reach the bottom of the Middle Fork Kings River Canyou that goes through a seemingly impassable and very tall gorge, with this massive rock overhang that could scare the bejeezus out of most people. If THAT falls, it could shut down the highway for keeps! Cedar Grove is perhaps 15 miles after that. CG lies in a widened valley very much like Yosemite Valley but the valley floor is a little more wavy than flat, with all of the ancient moraines laid down hundreds of thousands of years ago by the glaciers. Continue for about 6 more miles to road's end at Kanawyer's and commence your backtrack. You, we have just completed a journey through a very deep gash in the Sierra, that terminates at a great headwall just only about 6 air miles from the main Sierra Nevada Crest. At the 180/198 junction, continue on the 180 all the way into Fresno, till the 180/99 interchange downtown, and you could probably terminate the shoot here.
I believe the area you’re referring to in this video is Glen Cove. It was quite busy the day we did this drive and most vehicles were only allowed to drive up to Glen Cove, then had to take a shuttle bus the rest of the way to the summit. We were originally one of the ones told to stop at Glen Cove, but after some persuasion we were given a pass to drive all the way up the summit which was greatly appreciated to say the least. The road is winding and relatively steep at some parts, but we’ve certainly seen more dangerous roads in Utah and California. Thank you for all the tips for places to drive and record, we definitely record all the information and hopefully someday soon we’ll get the opportunity to see them all and share them with the world! Thanks again for watching and sharing your knowledge!!!
It was nice to see that drive again. My family was there in1975 when it wasn't paved. And I was there in 2017 with it paved. I just wondering what's all the construction that going on.
What camera did you use for the video? It’s GreaT! I’m planning on going to Pikes Peak next week. What advice can you give me, especially high elevation wise and going up and down hill in my vehicle?
I just went up this past weekend, and it was $10 per person. It took us just over an hour to get to the top (we stopped a few places to take pictures, adjust to the altitude...). A bit scary in places (right around mile 15 are some switchbacks that make you feel like you're driving into the abyss), but well worth it.
This video can't be playing back normal speed. The camera is moving too fast for 25 miles per hr! Unless Park Service allows racing!! And provides trophies! The downward cyclists have the correct 'tude. Ride the Cog Railway instead!!
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Just now seeing this video. Love the geology. I have a granddaughter who loved our drives and laughed when I would make the car dance to the music. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Such a great video. Thank you.
Thank you for watching!
The most charming journey I have ever made. Excellent
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I love the way the music gets dramatic and then stops right as you get at the Bigfoot Xing sign
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Really enjoyed this one...especially Glenwood Springs. You were super lucky you had all green lights there!!
Who would have expected a giant parking lot at the top of Pike's Peak at 14,000+ feet? LOL What a beautiful drive. Kind of scary in places, what with steep drop-offs only a foot to two-feet away from the road. I would imagine a person with acrophobia (like me) might have a little bit of a hard go of it. Thanks for sharing. I enjoy your drives to places I'll never get a chance to see for myself.
Ha I thought the same thing when I got up there, a huge parking lot seems a bit out of place. I’ll say that the drive looks scarier on the video than it is in real life. The drop offs are definitely steep, but the road is also wider and you’re farther away from the edge than it appears on the video. Thanks for your comment and thanks for watching!
@@AdventureEveryDay And more often than not, Pike's Peak is used for rally races, where drivers push their cars, and themselves, to the limits, often ending up over the edge, literally! It's nice to see Pike's Peak being used for more relaxing, scenic drives.
Oh yes, you could actually see the barriers from the races along the road in some places too
@@AdventureEveryDay Of all the places to have a rally, why Pikes Peak? Only someone who's suicidal or worse would drive that fast and hard.
@@jasoncarpp7742 Adrenaline junkies I guess haha
Love this video. First time I went up Pikes Peak I was just a little kid. Gravel road and rarely a guard rail. Dad sometimes had that '56 Buick so close to the edge.
Bet it was sketchy in some areas with it being a gravel road! Thanks for watching!
@@AdventureEveryDay I don't get why they didn't make guardrails for such a road.
@@jasoncarpp7742 I imagine it may have been an aesthetic choice, or possibly a lack of room for guard rails in a lot of areas.
@@AdventureEveryDay It's possible.
@@jasoncarpp7742 In this video the road looks a little wider than what I remember it and going back to watch in the old home movies my mom took going up it back in the '50's.
Another great video! Thank you so much for your wonderful work! I subscribed to you channel, of course! America is amazingly beautiful! Thank you, again!
@@AdventureEveryDay Thank you for your hard work. Is the only way I can see America (I live in Romania). America sure is a blessed country! Thank you again and take care!
Thanks for the ride!
💙 Thanks for watching!
AMAZING!
Thank you 😊
Enjoyed the video, nice job, have been up there lots of good times!
It’s an impressive road with incredible views! Thanks for watching!
I am in my early 70s,my mom and dad were driving up pikes peak ,but my turned around when we met a bus on the highest areas ,he made is swear not to tell our friends when we got home to Louisiana .,LOL. This was in the 60s and that road was not paved. After watching this video,I do not blame my Dad one bit for not continuing ,We live right by the smokies and drive mountains every day ,but the summit drive would bee to much even for us.
AED, I always love returning to your vids, time and time again; it's like listening to a long rock 'n' roll jam/song, or listening to a long symphony on my stereo. AED's GREATEST hits!!
You know, the color response on your cameras far surpasses nearly every movie, nearly every television program that I've ever seen, I kid you not!
Say, can you recall what that event was, in that little hollow, around where the summit "plateau" was? I must have seen up to 200 cars parked there.
I really hate to say this, but it sure was a bummer, a letdown, to see the entire actual summit all chewed up with construction. I very well ought to be finished by now, but re-natural-scaping the parking lot aprons is going to take considerably longer.
Some Posters here, are honest-to-goshers scared out of their wits by both watching this vid, and-or actually driving, riding up/down this highway. They oughtn't be, the road appears surprisingly wide, and the the old-time design engineers literally bent over backwards (in more ways than one!), to keep the grade as gentle as they could. In the Sierra Nevada, there are twisties far narrower than this, all roads that you ought to put on your Calendar for future Shoots: 1) I think that I'd mentioned CA S.R. 89 through Lassen Volcanic National Park before, as a suggestion. 2) CA S.R. 108, Sonora Pass Eastside from the top of the Pass nearly all the way down to the United States Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center. Much of the way, it lacks median stripes, and it seems more a lane-and-a-half, than 2 lanes. 3) CA S.R. 4; Pacific Grade Summit and Ebbetts Pass. Once again, this highway narrows at many spots, to almost a single, variable "one-way" track, and many grade declivities are so rough and choppy that vehicles whose wheelbases are too long, without compensating tall under-clearance can get hung up. 4) CA S.R. 198 takes you into Sequoia National Park's Giant Forest Region. Visalia to Three Rivers is easy enough, but Amphitheatre Grade starts above Hospital Rock at about 2.5K' Elevation and bounces all over the flanks of the near-vertical canyon wall back and forth and back again, until you round Amphitheatre Point at about a mile in elevation, until you reach the lower portion of Giant Forest Sequoia Grove, but the steeps are not quite over. You climb up and up till you reach the site of the former Giant Forest Village at about 6.5K'. All of this takes about 14 miles, but it seems like forever, what with all of the countless hairpins.
Now, if you DID want to do a Route Shoot for RUclips, I'd suggest that you plan to start at the freeway interchange of S.R's. 198 & 99, around downtown Visalia at about 8:00AM, and you continue on the 198, until you're a few miles West of Three Rivers and turn right onto Mineral King Road. That's got twisties with precipices and gorges, and it goes through a very arid ecosystem that's almost desert, until you hit the forest. Much of it goes through the lowest limit of the Atwell Sequoia Grove, and you've never seen such huge trees growing on such steep slopes. How can these arboreal brutes stand STRAIGHT up, without falling, under these dauntingly steep conditions? But they do, they do. You reach Mineral King Valley at road's end at about 8K'. Stop and shoot as MUCH as you can with your cameras. Backtrack all the long way to the 198 and do the big Amphitheatre Grade. Don't stop at Giant Forest, but continue on the 198, for a good many a mile until 198's junction with the 180 going into Kings Canyon National Park's General Grant Village, and continue it a good many a mile more, until you're Cedar Grove-bound. There is a starting stretch when you reach the bottom of the Middle Fork Kings River Canyou that goes through a seemingly impassable and very tall gorge, with this massive rock overhang that could scare the bejeezus out of most people. If THAT falls, it could shut down the highway for keeps! Cedar Grove is perhaps 15 miles after that. CG lies in a widened valley very much like Yosemite Valley but the valley floor is a little more wavy than flat, with all of the ancient moraines laid down hundreds of thousands of years ago by the glaciers. Continue for about 6 more miles to road's end at Kanawyer's and commence your backtrack. You, we have just completed a journey through a very deep gash in the Sierra, that terminates at a great headwall just only about 6 air miles from the main Sierra Nevada Crest. At the 180/198 junction, continue on the 180 all the way into Fresno, till the 180/99 interchange downtown, and you could probably terminate the shoot here.
I believe the area you’re referring to in this video is Glen Cove. It was quite busy the day we did this drive and most vehicles were only allowed to drive up to Glen Cove, then had to take a shuttle bus the rest of the way to the summit. We were originally one of the ones told to stop at Glen Cove, but after some persuasion we were given a pass to drive all the way up the summit which was greatly appreciated to say the least. The road is winding and relatively steep at some parts, but we’ve certainly seen more dangerous roads in Utah and California.
Thank you for all the tips for places to drive and record, we definitely record all the information and hopefully someday soon we’ll get the opportunity to see them all and share them with the world! Thanks again for watching and sharing your knowledge!!!
I love the music.
Glad you like it!
@@AdventureEveryDay It goes well with the video.
It was nice to see that drive again. My family was there in1975 when it wasn't paved. And I was there in 2017 with it paved. I just wondering what's all the construction that going on.
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What camera did you use for the video? It’s GreaT! I’m planning on going to Pikes Peak next week. What advice can you give me, especially high elevation wise and going up and down hill in my vehicle?
What are the small white boxes on the side of the road for?
Ahhh no guard rail! No thank you! Scary 😧
It's not so bad in real life if you take it slowly and carefully.
@@AdventureEveryDaytry with ice n snow lol. Jk
Anyone else notice the smiley face clouds?
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can we get the version without the music and just the normal audio?
We'll do a newer version of the drive up Pikes Peak with just the road noise someday soon.
It took almost 1 hour without stopping to reach the top? How much is the toll and any other fee ?
I just went up this past weekend, and it was $10 per person. It took us just over an hour to get to the top (we stopped a few places to take pictures, adjust to the altitude...). A bit scary in places (right around mile 15 are some switchbacks that make you feel like you're driving into the abyss), but well worth it.
well pikes peak hillclimb cars reach the top in 10 minutes. no seriously hillclimb cars reach the top in 10 minutes
I went up in September 2021 and it was 12.50 per person
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Great video back before all of your videos were silent i feel like you should release a silent and music version of all of them
This video can't be playing back normal speed. The camera is moving too fast for 25 miles per hr! Unless Park Service allows racing!! And provides trophies! The downward cyclists have the correct 'tude. Ride the Cog Railway instead!!
Video is playing at normal speed, and speed limits were followed.