Driving up Pikes Peak in a Thunderstorm

[@unclecoolie]

I regret that I skipped Pikes Peak when i drove by it in September 2022 during my New York-California road trip. I just completed a 10-day road trip across the country, and I was able to make a big detour to go see America's Mountain. As I've just done the biggest road of my life, I will have lots of videos from that, with the first video in the next few weeks. Enjoy!

[@maxglb1901]

❤❤❤thx a lot

[@dustinwall1552]

I'm so pumped for this!

[@wandabryantsmith2004]

@@unclecoolie I’m ready for those videos!

[@silenttraveldolphin9559]

I bet you travelled to Alaska... if i am wrong then I will keep watch you travel other way..

[@unclecoolie]

@@silenttraveldolphin9559 I haven't yet made it to either Alaska or Hawaii, but I very much plan to visit one or both next year. My 10-day road trip was driving across the continental U.S. and back. I'm hoping to have the first video uploaded in the next week or so.

[@tr00th]

The road trip king returns to bless his subscribers with another fantastic video adventure!

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! I have LOTS to upload. Stay tuned.

[@stimpyueediot]

I gave up on you UCP. I thought you hung up your tires. But your back BABY!!!!! LETTSSSSSS GGGOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

[@unclecoolie]

I'm still here, and I have a ton more content to upload. I still have 4 more parts to my US-6 real time video to upload, and my entire drive back to the east coast from Los Angeles yet to upload. Stay tuned.

[@rafael.vitoria]

Excited to watch another trip across my "bucket list" state.

[@monkie4714]

i love seeing driving videos of colorado, especially the gorgeous mountains! great work!

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you very much!

[@offydannerson8049]

I thought about you and the channel yesterday and now there's a new video up, it's magic!

[@unclecoolie]

I've been distracted by personal issues this year, but I just captured tons of new content that I'll be editing and uploading well into 2025! Plus, I'll be doing some cool stuff in 2025 as well.

[@андрейтихомолов-ъ2ш]

Great trip!!! Looking forward to the next trips👏👏👍👍

[@unclecoolie]

Many more to come!

[@toyorobo]

A new Unclecoolie video? Let me grab my snack and drink for my favorite time on KZbin!! Thank you for your videos, they're my mental health break, you have no idea how much you help me.

[@unclecoolie]

I'm glad to hear that! I have much more to come. I'm currently working the biggest video that I've ever worked on. I hope to have it uploaded in the next 2 weeks or so.

[@dustinwall1552]

Such a dramatic temperature difference with the elevation gain. All of the data you include make these the most immersive road trip videos online. Thank you!

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! It was freezing at the summit.

[@laraine8857]

I have been up there twice by car. Dad drove Mom and I, 1955, and there was a snow storm and the wipers got stuck and we couldn’t turn around … petrifying. Then I went up myself, 1972, in a Volkswagen Beetle. Stick shift. So your trip was memorable and nostalgic. Appreciated! Much the same from what I remembered in views and the roadway.

[@unclecoolie]

I understand your fear. I was driving a rental car that I already had driven for several days, and the engine was having issues the previous day. Fortunately, there were no issues on this day driving up the mountain.

[@NT91BTS]

Happy to see you again dear!

[@sonorasky3982]

O I love driving around in a storm when I don’t have to actually be in the car! Thank you, Uncle and I’m looking forward to your new adventures! 😊

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! I noticed while editing that the camera didn't catch the flashes and thunderclaps much at all. I was okay while driving, but got nervous when I got out at the summit, because the storms were right there just to the south of me.

[@wandabryantsmith2004]

I need to look at this area on a map because I find it interesting that going up the road is southbound and going down it is northbound. Your brakes get a beating on these roads. Thanks for another great drive! And thanks for the bonus at the end!

[@unclecoolie]

In hindsight, I should've left the route line on there. Go to Google Maps, and you can see it there though.

[@wandabryantsmith2004]

@@unclecoolie Yes, I can see that you were going south to the summit. I didn’t realize it’s the same highway. Thanks!

[@matthewricketts5330]

Awesome video. Good to see a video again on this channel 😎

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! I have much more to come!

[@matthewricketts5330]

@@unclecoolie I’m excited to see those soon

[@dastumpyone6110]

Awesome video! Looking forward to the new trip vids coming soon! I just checked the channel on Friday to see if I had missed any new content!.

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! I have much more to come!

[@rileybarker7482]

Oh my God, Kris that view is amazing😊😊

[@ClaytonHold]

Our great great awesome Uncle is back.....it's really been a minute since❤❤❤

[@unclecoolie]

Yeah, it's been a tough year for me personally, but I've just completed a roundtrip cross-country road trip with lots of new content.

[@glmarks61]

When I lived in Colorado Springs, I made the drive up to America's mountain several times- and what a view! Next time you're in the Springs, take the cog railway from Manitou Springs to the top. You'll get a completely different perspective on the way up. Glad to see some new content- especially of my home state.

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! I was thinking the same thing about the train. I have a hunch that I'll be back again. I always love driving through Colorado.

[@wandabryantsmith2004]

Wow, Uncle Coolie, I was beginning to think you had retired! Glad to see you’re back!

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! Not yet. I have much to post in the near future.

[@frankstamm3734]

I was a shuttle driver on pikes peak for two seasons it was a fun gig and went up when I was cabby best time going up 20 minutes

[@unclecoolie]

Cool! I want to visit again to try out the tram.

[@timothystark4475]

I had been at that place in 2004!

[@haraldd4838]

Thank You for the ride, wish I could advertise taking your car for hitch-hiking

[@GarfieldFan2004]

100th like for the road trip legend.

[@Мой_Любимый]

22:55 Spider: Bonjour!

[@unclecoolie]

Lol. I wonder if that bug got altitude sickness.

[@drivinghamsters]

Welcome back!😍

[@unclecoolie]

Thank you! I'm not going anywhere!

[@WeatherBmann]

Can't wait for the big trip to be uploaded

[@GarfieldFan2004]

Welcome back. I have a request for the next time lapse road trip video. (If you still take requests.) Moosic, PA to Haines City, FL. (My cousin lives in Florida.)

[@unclecoolie]

I may be driving to Orlando next March, but if I do, it will be from Fairfax County Virginia.

[@GarfieldFan2004]

@@unclecoolie ok sounds good.

[@stimpyueediot]

Love watching the Pikes Peak hill climb. If that truck didn't get In front of you I think you could have beat Dumas record of 7:57

[@unclecoolie]

👍👍

[@thelonelywolf88]

You should try taking a trip to Niagara Falls in Ontario. I went there last summer as well as a month ago. It's just absolutely stunning

[@unclecoolie]

I'd love to. The very first time I set foot outside the US was visiting the Canadian side of the Falls on July 4th. The colors from behind the falls was awesome. I think that I'll bring my family up there next summer.

[@danspound]

School buses look very harmonious on THESE roads!

[@unclecoolie]

I was surprised to see them, actually. I know some states start school early (usually mid-August) but I wasn't expecting to see buses the first week of August.

[@charlie.on.youtube]

Yay new content!

[@daniel4655]

I was hoping to see a re-creation of "Climb Dance"😏

[@unclecoolie]

My abysmal dancing skills are only exceeded by politicians and businessmen.

[@Nvideofilms]

Be safe there

[@unclecoolie]

I was! I was a little nervous at the summit, getting out of the car, because there were still strikes and thunderclaps just to the south.

[@KahrmeloGarcia]

Unclecoolie when u did the Omaha NE to San Antonio TX did u go to Dallas or Fort Worth

[@unclecoolie]

I went through Dallas on I-35.

[@aydenwarren4637]

Now can you post the day 3 road trip please? (Seattle, WA to Washington, DC)

[@unclecoolie]

I'll be working on the 10 days' worth of video that I just recorded in the near future.

[@studgerbil9081]

That road hosts every kind of race you can think of: cars, trucks, motorcycles, bicycles, runners, wheelchairs, skaters. It's breathtaking. The races are exhausting but the scenery is the real payoff.

[@unclecoolie]

This was way more exciting than driving up Mt. Washington, and it was actually a lot cheaper ($17 vs $40 for the fee to enter Mt. Washington).

[@lilmansnake2006]

Did you pull over a million times in this video because of your hot brakes?

[@unclecoolie]

I did. I tried just using low gears at first, but the car was actually going too slowly, so I switched to regular drive shortly after starting my descent from the summit. Even though I pulled over several times to let them cool a bit, the woman at the brake checkpoint, about midway down, told me that they were way to hot and recommended that I pull over for 15 minutes to let them cool, and to go back to using the low gears, which I did. I pushed the gas to get it up to 20-25MPH, which pushed the RPM up to about 4k, but I also saved on the breaks. I remembered on the way up that there was a section where it was flatter, so on the way down, I drove in normal drive before returning to low gears for the final descent to the entrance.

[@smostyuk]

can you install the camera higher to have a better view?

[@unclecoolie]

I had it as high as it could go. I sometimes wish that the viewing angle wasn't so much, but the only way to shrink it would be to downgrade the resolution (1080p), and I absolutely don't want to do that. I will be exploring newer cameras for future road trips.

[@aydenwarren4637]

that's not the day 3 road trip in january 2022

[@stevemattson4863]

Rather stupid what they did with that visitor center if you ask me because when I was there the whole summit was wide open,you could walk anywhere you wanted to and now is small block parking areas,they advertise a reservation time system that’s obviously not used and what’s in the center is rather useless information.

[@unclecoolie]

It seems to be a recent addition as the photos on Google Maps from just a few years ago show the summit mostly barren.

[@romb1818]

You are far from beating the hillclimb record. 😁😁😉

[@unclecoolie]

The rental car that I drove (a 2023 Chevy Equinox) had some minor engine problems the previous day, so I was nervous about making that 6,000-foot plus ascent, but the car handled it well.

[@romb1818]

@@unclecoolie I didn't mock you, I just wanted to make a connection with the Famous Pikes Peak hillclimb RACE. 😇

[@summerz8867]

My old stomping grounds as a teen, many visits to Pikes Peak🏔️

[@dedifanani8658]

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[@RoadsOfAsiaBen]

YES! Thanks for showing this and great view! Welcome back! Hope you upload more! Anyway this might be long comment. Not related to this but what If I tell you that I am the sole proprietor (someone who owns unincorporated businesses by themselves) as a photo editor since 2020 working at home? Let me tell you about how I became the sole proprietor. Back in 2019, the year when I graduated high school when I was 18 years old at the time, I was working at Pier 1 Imports as a cashier. It only lasted a year (2020) when all the people were laid off and the company filed for bankruptcy due to the height of the COVID-19 which led all stores liquidated and closed. So I didn't have many options after that. Someone told me that I should work as a photo editor at home. So I did and I was thinking "how to make money?" So the way I make money is this: People sent me photos and ask what photo edit do you want. Then I made a photo edit and sent it back. If they like it, they can send me no less than $1. If they're not satisfied, they can ask me to redo it or don't send money, no questions asked. So yeah that's how I become the sole proprietor working at home which I still do today. All that money that I saved for vacation, mainly on holidays, and gifts since my parents had to pay a lot of bills including home mortgage.

[@unclecoolie]

Thanks! That's awesome! The demand for photo editing is only getting stronger. Same with video editing. Many of the top YT content creators hire video editors to do their editing. (I don't make enough on this channel to afford to pay a separate editor.) Keep up the good work. There may come a time that I might reach out to you for work.