Pearl Pass, Colorado. 12,705ft/3872.5m.
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21 miles of one of the roughest mule trails in the Rockies, cut in the 1880s and still humbling today.
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Last week, the
@truckhouse.co prototype BCROOB AKA “Stubby Bob” traversed it, north to south, Aspen to Crested Butte. Not because anyone should drive a one-of-a-kind carbon-fiber expedition camper over a trail like this, however to prove that you could. You can’t say “most capable expedition camper” if it only gets you to the trailhead.
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Built on the
@aevconversions Prospector XL platform, the truck crested Pearl with support from
@tagovrlnd , Jason Broome and Ziggy in their AEV Jeeps, with
@sinuhexavier behind the wheel. Ziggy spotted every inch of the north-side waterfalls, where shale, granite, and running water turn the road into an off camber goat trail. The shale went glassy, slick as oil on water, the kind of surface where physics stops believing in you.
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Other trail users stopped, doubtful eyes on the rig, wondering if it would make it.
It did.
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Mule trail against modern design and engineering.Â
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Proof of concept.
