Re: Required skills?

Steve Forney Wrote:
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> Too narrow to turn around.

hank Wrote:
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> Backing up for long distances is a skill I always
> thought was required for going off on this kind of
> road.  Heck, I practiced it as a teenager!  Don't
> think I've ever had to back more than a bit over
> a mile though.


Worst for me, Hank -

Was about ¼ mile when I tried to follow what little was left of the old AT&SF grade west of Flagstaff a few years ago.  I had lots of practice for short distances in my late 30s when I had a summer job driving 18-wheelers and had to back trailers into narrow spaces to pick up loads of citrus at the packing houses that in the olden days had filled long trains of reefers on the Santa Paula branch of the S.P.

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