Then I believe you did drive Red Mountain,Coal Bank and Molas passes.Our high school basketball teams used to play in a tournament in Montrose "the Black Canyon Classic". The tournament was the final one before Christmas break and it was mostly the parents of the players who went to see the tournament. One paticular year it snowed for days on end but a lot of people who went to see it took Coal Bank,Molas and Red Mountain Pass during the snow storm. According to one observer those people who took that route when they arrived at the gym(fortunately they all did)had the look of death on their faces and these are people who are used to driving in rough weather.