I agree with everyone else, ditch the trailer somewhere before you hit the mountains.
I've never pulled a trailer in the mountains in Colorado, but I've driven them extensively, both with gassers and diesels, and there's no way I'd try pulling a trailer, loaded or empty, up some of those grades if there was any way I could get out of it.
I even took a GMC conversion van with a 6.2 diesel to the top of Pike's Peak once. And one trick I learned about driving a diesel in the mountains, is keep your rpm up, even if you have to hold the trans in a lower gear with the shifter. If you're crawling up a grade and let your rpm drop to a point where the engine is lugging, you're done for.
I had to chuckle once. I was crawling up the grade coming east out of Laramie, Wyoming driving an Olds 88 with a 5.7 diesel, which, contrary to popular opinion, really wasn't a bad little diesel once GM got the bugs out of it. Anyway, I held it in 2nd gear with the shifter and was rolling about 40 mph passing 18 wheelers, campers, etc. and having a high old time. I happened to glance in the mirror and that little 5.7 was throwing out a cloud of black smoke that would have matched any 18 wheeler out there.
Anyway, my two cents. Good luck and have a good trip.
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