Just because the road up to Mt. Nebo is open does not mean you should go. If you see snow....GO BACK!
While the Noll's were here, we decided to take a little trip up Nebo. We drove all the way to Payson to come up and back over the mountain.
We noticed there was quite a bit of snow on the road but people had gone through and we follow their tracks. In some places the snow was about 12 to 18 inches! After awhile, I could hardly look out the window.
So, we get all the way to the summit which is 9343 feet up and about a mile past that the tracks in the snow end. So we have to turn back around and go all the way back the way we came! Plus, we we're on the danger low mark as far as gas was concerned.
It certain was a lesson learned. It is unbelievable how quickly things can go to being really terrible. For example, if we would have slid off the road and someone had to walk out, we would have run out of gas and probably have had to sleep in the car on the top of the mountains with no one knowing we were up there. You hear and read about people that that happened to you and I always used to think "how stupid can you be?" But that was us!
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