Gear down! Force an automatic into low.

Top right: Panorama from Heckman Pass.
The lower portion of the ramp in detail. The upper of two hair pin turn. - The switch backs on the north slope of Young creek. Note: our mail truck - three times a week down “The Hill” and up The Hill and all in one day and all by one driver. And safely.
...meanwhile this part has been much improved!
Bottom: By the time you see this you’ve just about made it.

On this road all our supplies come in on articulated transport trucks. Visitor buses in the summer!
There were two fatal mishaps on The Hill in its 49 year history: one in bad winter driving conditions and the driver having been strongly adviced not to travel, one due to drunken driving.
To any European driver I can say: several Alpine pass roads are more demanding (e.g Spluegen/Spigua, Stilfser Joch/Stelvio) with many switch backs and a lot of traffic wheras traffic on The Hill may be such that you do not encounter even one other vehicle.
There are many bays to make room and let a truck pass, if need be. Without a trailer in tow the 18km take about 1/2 hour to drive at moderate to slow speeds.

Bella Coola Valley Air Views

Clayton Valley Wilderness Road

Bella Coola

Estuary, Wharf and Log Harbour

Lower Bella Coola Valley

Nusatsm House and surroundings

B&B Air views

Nusatsum Valley Wilderness Road

Upper Valley  (east of B&B) - The Hill

The Nuxalkmc

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