[Speedo]

What has been your most hair-raising driving experience?

Mine has got to be the Auto Road on Mt. Washington in New Hampshire. I was fine until the trees shortened out of existence. Then it was white-knuckle driving the rest of the way up. Those roads are narrow and twisty, and the only thing between you and a plummet down the side of the mountain are a few head-sized rocks. Coming down is not that much easier, since you're trying like mad to stay off your brakes.

[Tabby]

For me it was driving on mountain roads in the west. Those things were sheer drops on one side that I was afraid of falling off of, and sheer walls on the other side that I was afraid would drop rocks on me. Not to mention the cars flying at me from the other direction and flying up behind me, flashing lights and honking horns since I was only driving the speed limit. Also not to mention wildlife that seemed to like appearing out of nowhere and standing in the middle of the road.

[Max]

No doubt in my mind---Rising To The Sun Highway in Glacier National Park on the Montana/Canada border in the Rocky Mountains. The name tells it all.

[Dodge Doll]

It had to do with twilight, a mountain road that was little more than switchbacks and hairpins, and a half-drunk Mexican cab driver.... it took me a long time to unwind from that drive.

[jason]

I want to say it was West Virgina I was in. The nice high and steep mountains. Rain was coming down so hard that the people who thought they pulled over to the shoulder were actually in the slow lane. Not a fun trip through the mountains that day.

[66Notchback]

It was the dead of winter, and a snow squall blew up with little notice. A rural highway, with a steep embankment to the right of me, and white-out conditions; the wipers kept freezing up and having to be de-iced and freed. The passenger tires were on the shoulder and I kept putting them up onto the pavement so I could "feel" the road, and at one point I had to get out of the truck and verify it's position on the road.

It took me over 2 hours to get home that night, and several more to unwind.