If you want to see that, you should watch the old video of the K5 Blazer that loses control coming down (and survives). I'm sure it's on RU-vid somewhere.
Lion's Back was closed in 2004, a few years before I moved to Moab after retireing, so this video has to be well over 18 years. I drove it in 2003 in a Jeep on a trip when living in TN. Really no where near as scary as it looks.
Jesus Christ. The brass balls that driver has. Stupidity always makes the most amazing videos. Thank god you didn't go flipping down like I've seen ones. Love this video.
That looks terrifying, even from the safety of my couch. From what I understand, they closed the Lion's Back to the public. Too many accidents/deaths. There's a milder, smaller version of it somewhere near by you can still go on thought.
@@tenmil1 Correct. That area is owned by the Nelson Family. They allowed folks for years until that Blazer footage. Closed right after that. It wasn't old man Nelson that closed it, it was his family. He liked it open, but the family's lawyers won of course.
@@tymesho I didn’t know any of the family names I just knew it was not on public lands. Thank you for filling me in, it sounds like you’ve been in the area for a while.
BigBendBroncos Don't know if you've ever been to Moab but the traction is ridiculous. It's like driving on sandpaper, you notice he didn't so much as squeak a tire coming down. We drove my old junkheap Ramcharger from West Texas to Moab last year, wheeled for a week and had a blast. Wanted to go again this year but life keeps getting in the way.
ahhh yes.....the view at the top is breathtaking. Especially when you're up there at night. To see the once sleepy town of Moab in the early 1990's from up there....and then to lay down your camping bag and sleep under the stars. That could be done then....not so sure about now. Unless the back way up is still accessible. Will have to do it again before somebody gets the bright idea of putting a Taco Bell at the top. ZUK
"Hey I got an idea!" "What is that?" "Let's drive a Jeep off a steep mountain and record it!" "Woah, what if you lose control, roll over and die?" "Who gives a shit, it'll be RIGHTEOUS!"
If you're the boss and telling whoever the driver is to drive that car for advertising purpose, you say: "dude, you gotta make it or else you're done!"
A if you start the video at 1:15 she says "i wish this person the best" thats not his wife she has no idea who he is, also the very beginning of the drive sucks hard! the rest is cake
@mhslacrosse69 - as far as I know it's closed now. The video was taken in 2006, and I still can't forget how scary it was. I've done it the first time in 2003 and it was even scarier .
Best thing to do if you lose traction is to get on the gas so you can get a good launch off either side. Then gas it hard! while airborne then maybe you can land it! Haha. I would attempt after a good Rain and then it drys. Less loose sand on top of rock. I imagine that's what would be most likely to make you lose traction.
Yet for some reason me and my f4runner are always rescuing these Jeep guys from the mud, and any rig can drive down something let’s see your rig drive up it
that really doesnt look impressive. looking at the pictures of this hill on google its nothing bad at all... just because one stupid fuck didnt take care of his vehicle and crashed doesnt make this a 10 on the danger scale... id say maybe a 6
THE GUY WANTS TO DIE, and even walks in front of the trucks path! get a big door sticker that says= ( I'M STILL ALIVE )with a picture of a little certoon man with his thumb up and a eye wink, I need one my self! the lower didn't look bad but the top seemed a little risky, and quit watchen those jeep commercials there gona killya
Must be uncomfortable driving that, either from the balls of solid granite you'd be sitting on or the mahoosive turd that wasn't there when you started! :-)
There really haven't been that many crashes. And the ones that do usually are from the brakes failing after running it so many times. Or missing a gear and free wheeling. The first 20 feet were steep and turning around at the top was sketch, but the rest fairly mellow. The view and the risk it what makes it amazing. Stock vehicles did it.
If you have done any four=wheelin you would know that this is not a landrover. Those piles of crap wouldn't stay running long enough to get down the hill, let alone have enough power to climb up. A landrover is even worse than jeep junk.. Cruisers rule the wasteland.
