68PK21 440.6bbl
Old Man with a Hat
Yeah I'm waiting and watching to see the law clamp down on the 'YouBoob Stars' but with the many many others problems going on today in California it seems that these crashing clowns are a little priority. The wheelie crash last Saturday I saw no CHP, County or National Park Service cops on that scene only the National Fire Service (US) rescue squad. Nothing new as many hikers have gotten over their heads up there and needed rescue.
I use to ride the San Gabriel canyon (now AZUZA) up to the top to the Angels Crest Highway (ACH) to eliminate the traffic clogged freeway drone to get to the Sierra Nevada's back in the late 70's. A very familiar road to me as that is where (ACH) we went to get up above the smog so to say back then. After the Northbridge quake no can do anymore as a rock slide has damaged the road up by the top. It was funny talking with someone on FireTalk (1999/2000) about the ACH & San Gabriel and he alerted me about the rock slide taking out the top of San Gabriel, also told me about the CHP motor squad 'Wolf Packs' that were implemented in the late 80's to combat the M/C deaths (6 in one weekend) and rescues (1 was 450 feet down the cliff) back then, mostly on the western end of the ACH. Back when I rode in the 70's there was no fuel available up there and with a 3 gallon tank you had just enough fuel to get up & over or up & down.
As with the Coastal Canyons and western end of the ACH I did them once or twice. Most of the riders on the western end of ACH were Valley People riding up to Mt. Wilson, did it once, no thank you, too developed and way to much traffic. In all my times on San Gabriel I think up beyond the reservoir I may have encountered 1 or 2 other vehicles, eastern end of ACH... naadaa, zero, buttkiss, whether day or night, had the whole road to myself.
Oh my how it's changed now,
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