Jeep Wrangler Black Bear Edition: What to Drive in Telluride - Car and Driver (blog)
For years, Jeep has had difficulty building enough Wranglers to satisfy demand, but that hasn’t kept the brand’s marketing and product-planning troops from dreaming up new packages to enhance profitability and keep metal moving off the showroom... But in an apparent quest to expand Jeep awareness to other tricky treks, this package is named for the short but treacherous Black Bear Pass trail, which culminates at Telluride, Colorado. Although it’s not specifically honored on Jeep’s list of top 10 off-road destinations, the starting point is near Ouray, Colorado, number six on the list, an area that includes a number of opportunities to test skills and skidplates. The Black Bear Pass route, from Red Mountain Pass to Telluride, is less than 10 miles, but its high altitudes (from 11,018 to 12,840 feet), extremely narrow stretches, and a series of precipitous switchbacks descending to Telluride make it a... Jeep literature refers to the trail as “notorious. So how does the Black Bear Edition hone a Wrangler Sport for an assault on the Black Bear Pass trail. Well, there’s a topographical map of the trail reproduced as a hood decal, though it would be tricky to employ as a reference tool on narrow trails bordered by several hundred feet of drops. Source: blog.caranddriver.com
