Erling: The rental agreement probably has some fine-print warning about taking it on remote roads. Just be careful, and make sure it has a good spare tire on board.
W-Jim: Sorry to hear you felt so bad. Since you didn't recover quickly on returning to lower altitude, you probably had a bug of some sort. Certainly the altitude added to the problem, but I'm thinking the bug is what made you turn around.
So why no pictures of the flat tire?
