Shakespeare, Macbeth Act I. Sc. 5
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- Denote the concentrations of canyon roads, in red. Toggling a particular geographic region in the map, below, puts you down-page, to that particular region:
- Rest your eyes on the map, above. Imagine what you could do with lightweight sports car, on any Sunday, on the awesome roads you see, above, digitized in red. This is our religion. Most people don't get it. We're hoping you're one who does.
But once in your lifetime, experience this. Or, go to your grave with unfinished business. Venture out. Spend but one day of your lifetime. Just one... Drive Mulholland, end to end. Drive Latigo. Drive mighty Yerba Buena. From there, head up the coast, to Hwy 33, ascend to Lockwood Valley Rd, across to Mil Potrero/Cerro Noroeste. From there, venture up into the High Sierras, via White Wolf Pass, up Caliente-Bodfish, into Kernville. Finish the drive, descending Nine Mile Grade, to U.S. 395. Then, you'll see what we mean.
Spend one day of your life in God's canyons, thrashing without mercy your go fast canyon carver. Then, walk away. Fair warning: It changes you. Forever. You'll never forget. Six months later, long after you've returned home, stuck in traffic, somewhere, on your way to work, perhaps, you'll have pause to reflect back to that day, still so fresh in your mind, when, seemingly yesterday, looking down upon you from on high, reveling in your humanity, digging deep within yourself, all by yourself, deep in God's canyons, thrashing your sports car for all it is worth, but for no good reason than the sake of it, you could sware the Man Upstairs took a shine to you, that day. You will never be the same. It stakes claim upon an empty piece of your soul no woman could ever fulfill. Sitting there, helpless, in traffic on your way to work, stuck, no way out, you'll pause to reflect back to that special day, feel an emptiness that before you never knew was there. Try to sublemate? Track day, perhaps? Futile. Woeful substitute. It's not the same thing.
Having experienced heaven on Earth, first-hand, everything else in your lifetime driving experience, thereafter, will pall in-significance. When your days are finally through? Last gasp, last thoughts flashing by, before it all goes pitch black: "I remember! I remember! I believe! I believe!" Scattered atop our fallen comrad's, and mine, is where you'll want your ashes spent."
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Coastal Ranges: Rates a 4 on our 5 scale -- Toggling this map directs you to the appropriate place, in our road book index, or to an adjacent region on this page:
- Hwy 58 (Calf-Canyon), and Santa Rosa Creek Rd constitute our favorite drives in the coastal ranges. Pozo and Santa Rita are arguably the most beautiful forested drives you'll ever experience... almost a shame to drive fast. Not much there to drive in Santa Barbara. Somewhere between Foxen Canyon and Hwy 33 is supposed to be a top secret government installation. Henceforth, there is absolutely no way to cut a northeasterly swath out of Santa Barbara... San Luis Obispo County is terrific; Santa Barbara County sucks. Have a close look at the map... Santa Barbara has no basis whatsoever for which to exercise a meaningful claim to that portion of State Hwy 33 which insignificantly traverses it.
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Lower Sierra Nevadas: Rates a 5 on everybody's 5 scale -- Toggling this map directs you to the appropriate place, in our road book index, or to an adjacent region on this page:
- Incredible! You'll have a hard time finding a road in the High Sierras you won't like. We particularly like Sherman pass going eastbound, and we like the Nine Mile Grade best as a downhill. Fair warning: Canyon drivers regularly succumb to spatial disorientation, way up there in the High Sierras. It's so easy to get yourself into big-time trouble on these roads. An impeccably maintained vehicle is prerequisite. These roads drive best weekdays, during Indian Summer. Most, if not all, are snowed in during winter. Wintertime is harsh... cold day in hell, getting stuck way up there in January.
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Basin Ranges: Rates a 4 on our 5 scale -- Toggling this map directs you to the appropriate place, in our road book index, or to an adjacent region on this page:
- Excellent place to explore your speedometer. We refer to the Basin Ranges as the northern component of our personal Area 51: Best place in California for going clockwise of one o'clock on your speedo. If you possess one of those 6 figure, pimp-daddy gran turismos, then our personal area 51 is where you'll relish spending quality time, getting down to business, acclimating yourself to your suicide machine. Snow-birds migrate to the Basin Ranges during wintertime. Hence, when you're not dodging Grandma and Grandpa's motorhomes towing Saturns, on weekends you'll also have to contend with Los Angeles metro residents. Bent on proving to themselves they're "rugged outdoorsmen," they rationalize purchase of their 60 thousand dollar SUVs by lumbering into Death Valley, deficating roadside, throwing trash everywhere, denigrating the natural habitats and national landmarks. When you're not dodging SUVs and Motorhomes? Yup: biker-dudes, hogging the roads. However, all these problem-people evaporate weekdays. This region drives best early or late summer, before or after the snow birds arrive and depart. Be careful out there in the desert: Avoid the weekends, and watch out for fatigued drivers in SUVs and motorhomes. Outstanding on weekdays, it's well worth a sick day... You'll practically have the whole thing to yourself.
- Take heed: Nowhere else in California is our 5/50/500 rule more applicable... Nowhere else in North America is dependable, reliable, meticuluously maintained machinery more prerequisite than Area 51. Ever heard the phrase: Found On Road Dead?
- That I happen to be the dumb-ass he was referring to when that insightful Chevrolet guy coined that phrase, take everything ever said or written by automotive journalists with a grain of salt. Acquired the hard way, I have nothing but the greatest respect for the Desert Southwest. Some years back? Before proliferation of cell phones? Beaming reviews from the hopelessly subverted newsies at Road and Track Magazine ? They turned me out, sold me down the river, and left me for dead. Succored out of my money, having read R&T's glowing road-test, I subsequently did something very-very stupid: I ponied up the big-bux, cash on the barrel, and I bought me a brand new SVO Mustang...
- Then, you know what I did? Well, I ventured out into the Mojave for a little drive. Big mistake. Standing there, in the middle of nowhere, looking into the engine bay of my brand spanking new car, I could not believe what I saw. Turns out, all that secures the rotor in place? Inside the distributor? There's an eencie-weencie-cheapie little bolt. Excessive vibration inside, throughout, and about that glorified Pinto power plant, it's prone to working itself loose. It tossed itself off the rotor before subsequently working its way down, way-way down, deep into the bowles of what was once a distributor. The disloged rotor richocheted around, and around, in the process of disintegrating, about the top end of the distributor, for a good long while, ripping the cap asunder. Having utterly oblitterated the entire distributor, it had the added demerit of suddenly choking off, at God's speed, its oil supply to the turbocharger. Stranded, high and dry, in the middle of the Mojave Desert? For no good reason than Ford Motor Company's shoddy engineering principles? I took a little walk... Several vehicles having passed me by, without stopping, I walked 11 hours through the Mojave Desert. Straight. No food. No water.
- Found On Road Dead? Not quite. I was pretty hungry, though; thirsty, too. But, I wasn't tired... No. I was way too pissed-off to be tired. I was fit to go down there, to Newport Beach, and grab that newsie by the scruff, drag his sorry ass out to the sidewalk, put my steel toed boot to the side of his neck, and make him lap-up some runoff, right out of the gutter, right outside R&T's headquarters. The engineer who sinned on his science in designing that distributor? There must be legions, like me, who are going to be hunting his sorry ass down in the hereafter. If I was a R&T newsie? Ford would have honored my warranty, no questions asked. Predictably, I wound up eating the repair bill. Four oil change reciepts, in-hand, and eight thousand miles on the odometer notwithstanding, so skillfully did they finagle around having to service my vehicle, under warranty. Begrudgingly, to keep the repair bill under 1,200 bux, they gave me a discount on a new distributor.
- The old greased pole.
- I have nothing but the greatest respect for the Mojave Desert. Keep in mind brand new machinery, and our 5/50/500 rule of thumb, may not be sufficient when venturing into "Area-51." Never put yourself in the position to pay the price for being easily influenced. Never allow yourself to be influenced by a newsie; never pony up your money based upon what manipulative journalists write in car magazines. Automotive journalists are hard core car salesman with baccalaureate vocabularies. Consider the lavish perks embellished upon automotive journalists, advocates for the highway concept, bought and paid for based upon their ability to get you to do what they tell you to do. I certainly won't be the only one hunting down newsies in the hereafter.
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Mojave Desert & Colorado Desert: Rates a 3 on our 5 scale -- Toggling this map directs you to the appropriate place, in our road book index, or to an adjacent region on this page:
- This region comprises the southern half of our personal Area 51. Excellent place for which to explore your speedometer. Mind the flash flood advisories, as well as your inner voice (... you know: that little voice inside you that taps you on the shoulder every so often to keep you out of trouble?). Comedian Sam Kinneson, for some reason, didn't. Subsequently, he bought the farm, head on, in his souped up Pontiac Trans Am (...what people see in those cars, I don't know). Be careful out there on those long straightaways, you guys.
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The Santa Monica Transverse Ranges: 5 on our 5 scale -
- NUISANCE ADVISORY (11 APR.'2005): The "Operation Safe Canyon" Smokescreen:
- Fair Warning: Local policy community has a roaming law enforcement task force running a dragnet, strange hours, in this region. This task force is populating a new "Canyon Driver" database. They're swiping driver's licenses, and taking names. If your car comes up, so many times, in their "Canyon Driver" database, the City of Los Angeles is going to confiscate your car; presumably to destroy it. If you drive an SUV in this region, don't worry; task force could care less about you. Everyone who drives a sports car, in this area, the "Operation Safe Canyon" task force is charged with the task of violating your civil rights, swiping your driver's license, red flagging your driving privilege, putting you in their "Canyon Driver" database. It's unconstitutional. We realize that. But, that's an archaic argument. Constitution no longer exists. If you get pulled over in this area? Flashback to National Socialist Germany, circa 1939, if you drive here, you take your chances. Sorry... That is the way it is. Be polite. Local policy commuity have given Ponch & John Carte Blanche. Anything they want to do. Mouth off, and you'll get you're teeth knocked out, and your car or motorcycle confiscated. Watch your step... Do not get pulled over, in this area, in the same vehicle, twice.
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- World Renowned Mulholland Raceway! There was nothing on earth, like it. Year around canyon driving! Every road so unique! This Mediterranean biome was the place you wanted to live, the place you wanted your children to grow up, the place you wanted to meet women, the place you wanted to become popular... the place you wanted to be. It once constituted arguably the best return address on this planet: Malibu, California. Whoa! If your religion is canyon driving, then this was the place to be known, for doing it well. What's was so remarkable, about this orogenic anomaly is the flexibility offered to drivers or event planners, whom ccould so easily juxtapose or substitute the array of canyon roads, in a such multitude of ways, for which to vary the subsequent driving experience, with so breathtaking a range of contrast. Never having driven these roads, you'll have died with unfinished business. This area populated at a rate that would astonish Malthus. Worse, it's evolved to become a Republican enclave (e.g., you know what that means).
- Several years, now, the end's been near, for canyon driving, in this area.
- Weekdays are best. Avoid this area on the weekends. Mulholland Raceway always was, and always will be, an early morning, late evening drive. Drives best, going east to west. We once advised: Be done by with your drive by mid-morning, get the hell out of there, and let our sport bike pals have their fun. A five on our subjective 5 scale, sentimental reasons, we've resisted downgrading this particular area, for about a year, now. Certainly not what it used to be, this area has evolved to become: "Fortress Mulholland," enclave for wealthy, benumbed conservatives. Land grab, local policy community, here, singling-out sports car drivers, hope to build an imaginary wall around this area, push everyone out, in hope of keeping everything you see, on the map, above, for themselves. Singling-out sports car guys, blaming them for all their problems, in life, local law enforcement task force is populating a "canyon driver" database, swiping driver's licenses, taking names, for which to facilitate vehicle confiscation. If you're going to drive this area, you'll have to take your chances. Don't get pulled over twice, in the same car, in this area. If you're going to drive this area? Reconnnoiter first, several times, in your daily driver, prior to doing so in your go-fast Sunday driver (e.g., it's an atypical vehicle profile they're singling out). Avoid driving these roads in multiple vehicle groups...
- Advisory: That, hill-climbing south-facing slopes, you'll ascend 2,500 feet in as little as 2-4 miles, prepare your passengers or navigators for elevation sickness. That this mountain range never takes snow, it is prone to pea-soup variety, advection fog.
- Fair Warning: On northbound hill climbs which ascend inland from Pacific Coast Highway, always be cogniscent of the necessity of readily being able to reflexively manipulate your climate control axiomatically, at moment's notice, sight unseen. Cockpit impounded relative humidity, rising up from sea-level faster than the wet adiabatic lapse rate, as we hill-climb aggressively, inland, commonly condenses inside our windshields, at speed, blinding us, when we're most vulnerable, and when we least expect it. This has happened to us more than once. Hammer and tongs, going 10/10ths? Then, in a matter of a half-second, moisture condenses inside all our windows, and suddenly we're flying blind... can't see a damned thing, for 5 long seconds?
- Count 'um: "One-Mississippi, two-Mississippi, three-Mississippi, four-Mississippi, five-Mississippi..." At speed, that is an eternity. That is indicative of going eyes closed through Turn 1 at Indianapolis. If you're quick on the switch, that's how long it takes the best climate control system to defog your windshield. But, if you have to fumble around? Precious seconds lost.
- We've had some scary moments ascending Fernwood Pacific, Las Flores Canyon, and Decker Canyon. At speed, then suddenly having to fumble with the climate control, impromptu, you could put a really big hurt on yourself, if not the driver in front of you. That the lead car is always the first to encounter this phenomena, cars trailing, tight, in caravan, directly behind, implies the likelihood of a domino effect when suddenly barreling headlong into these pea-soup fog banks. Henceforth, this is a necessary topic you'll need to address at your driver's meetings, prior to departing, on rally. Your people need to be intimately aware of this phenomena, especially for nightime driving events. That the likelihood looms large they'll revert to the characterics of the climate control arrangements of their daily drivers, participants who aren't driving their daily drivers, on rally, are the ones most vulnerable to fumbling, when the chips are down.
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Los Padres Component of the Transverse Ranges: Rates a 5 on everybody's 5 scale -- Toggling this map directs you to the appropriate place, in our road book index, or to an adjacent region on this page:
- Not much to to choose from here. But, everything north of Hwy 150 and Hwy 126 is exceptional! Contiguity to the Sierras, the Coastal Ranges is excellent. Simply awesome. Going north from Ojai, it just gets better and better. Avoid Hwys 150 and 126 (if you must, then mind your RADAR detectors). Area is prone to mud slides. Mind the flash flood advisories. Drives best during Indian Summer. These roads are demanding... to the second power. Advisory: Be very-very careful on Lockwood Valley Rd: Do not do Lockwood Valley if you aren't supremely confident in your brakes. Watch out for the big dip on the long straightaway of Lockwood Valley Rd, approaching Frazier Park. Too fast, you'll nose first, straight into the asphalt.
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Northwestern Component of Angeles National Forest: Rates a 4.5 on our 5 scale -- Toggling this map directs you to the appropriate place, in our road book index, or to an adjacent region on this page:
- With exception to Little Tujunga, all roads North of Hwy 210 and Hwy 126 take snow during winter. Contiguity to the other biomes is outstanding. The best roads on this map are Bouquet, Lake Hughes, Little Tujunga, Lancaster Rd, and Pine Canyon. We avoid San Francisquito Cny. Elizabeth Lake Road is banned. Soledad Canyon isn't worth turning a crankshaft, and Sierra Highway sucks. These roads drive best during Indian Summer. Assulting Lancaster Road, from 245th Street West, going eastbound, is absolutely harrowing (...mind the dips!). Mind the speedtraps along Hwy 138, as well.
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Eastern Component of the Angeles National Forest: Rates a 4 on our 5 scale (...nightime only)-- Toggling this map directs you to the appropriate place, in our road book index, or to an adjacent region on this page:
- Such a waste, that the longest uninterrupted canyon road in Los Angeles Metro is utterly wrecked. Too many wanabe cafe-racers, riding too many brand new, out-of-the-box, 170 mph super-bikes, screwing everything up for everybody.
- For us, it's usually the Harley-guys who drive us bonkers. I cannot remember how many driving events we've had which were wholly ruined by blue collar novice types, with brand new tattoos, riding newly acquired Harley-Davidsons, holding us up, using Angeles Crest Scenic Biway to acclimate themselves to the brotherhood of biker-dudes. But, sad, but true: It's the sport bike contingent, whom have given all of us (...us car guys notwithstanding, but themselves, most of all) a black eye in this region. With so many bikers going down, so many fatalities the last few years on Angeles Crest Scenic Byway, the zCHP arbitrarily leverages double tariffs, upon all of us. Staff at Newcomb's Ranch Cafe, a biker joint just east of Upper Big Tujunga, on Angeles Crest Highway, have taken on the novel tradition of honoring the sport bike contingent by hanging up photographs of all the dead cafe-racers. Avoid Angeles Crest Scenic Byway like the plague, weekends, during daytime hours. Dominated by novice grade cafe-racers who never turn-out for anyone, Angeles Crest Scenic Biway, On Any Sunday, constitutes an absolutely miserable drive.
- If that's not bad enough? Cyclists. They pedal up the hill at 0.25 miles per hour, all day long, so they coast back down, 25 miles per hour, in the process making themselves as much of a nuisance, blocking as much vehicular traffic as they possibly can.
- Likewise, what the sport bike contingent hasn't wrecked? Palmdale's trailer-trash contingent cyclically toss Snicker's wrappers out their sunroofs ceremoniously, in commuter quantity. Angeles Forest Highway is littered. Predominant flow of commuter traffic which traverses Angeles Forest Highway is southbound during morning hours; northbound during evening hours. Owing to the preponderance of fatigued commuters early apexing turns, in the process putting their subcompacts well over the double yellow, do NOT plan driving events going against the flow of commuter traffic. If you must, then you are ALWAYS better going with the flow.
- We need that bridge fixed. Pronto. Having that bridge fixed, once and for all, San Gabriel Canyon would take significant pressure off Angeles Crest Highway. Having that bridge fixed would halve the number of accidents on Angeles Crest, and negate the necessity of Pasadena's Superior Court's "double fine zone" rice bowl. We recommend you relegate yourself to A-31 blacktop (e.g., anything which isn't a state highway). Try Hwy 33, Lockwood, Cerro Noroeste, Bouquet Cny, Pine Cny, or Big Pines-Valyermo... all of them 5 star drives. The further west you go, the better. If you must drive Angeles Crest Scenic Byway, then do so at night. Avoid these roads during wintertime... they take considerable snow. The best roads on this map are the ones the sport bike contingent avoids. We like Little Tujunga. Angeles Forest, and Big Pines-Valyermo as a downhill. If you must drive Angeles Crest? We recommend you bypass the westernmost segment of the Crest, using Big Tujunga to Angeles Forest, from there to Upper Big Tujunga, up to the Crest, then from there, enjoy the rest of Angeles Crest Scenic Biway, eastbound to Big Pines.
- Yield Angeles Crest Hwy to bikers and cyclists on the weekends, during daytime hours; yield Angeles Forest Hwy to commuters weekdays, early morning and late afternoon. That relegates us to the wee hour. If you want to enjoy the longest stretch of uninterrupted canyon driving in Los Angeles Metro? Then, see about a modest headlamp upgrade. While your at it? Don't forget to request from your optometrist an eyeware perscription optimized for high speed night driving.
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San Bernardino Component to the Transverse Ranges: Rates a 3 on our 5 scale -- Toggling this map directs you to the appropriate place, in our road book index, or to an adjacent region on this page:
- Beautiful roads. Scenic vistas. Terrific roadside accouterments. It's Ponch & John's turf during the day; ours at night. Takes considerable snow in winter. Drives best Autumns and early Winter. Crestline, Arrowhead, and Big Bear are populating rapidly... enjoy this region while you still can. Denote the hydrography: During Winter and Spring, beware of ephemeral run off, especially on Mill Creek. We have yet to complete this component of our road book. That everything you see in red is a State Highway, we rate this region but a 3 on our 5 scale. Damned shame...
- Advisory: If you break down in this region? Heaven help you. Do not attempt to traverse this region in anything less than an impeccably maintained machine. This area is native habitat of California's Black Bear. Moreso than panda or grizzly, California's black bear are notoriously unpredictable. Unlike grizzly, black bear are deceptively fast, agile, and can clear a five foot fence, hardly breaking stride. Add to that: California mountain lion are no less stealthy than South American jaguar. The San Bernardinos have ample population of both. If you see someone stranded, roadside (especially a motorcycle guy), then stop and render assistance. Two local cyclists were recently mauled by a mountain lion. Some time ago, a local boy was recently mauled in his sleep in the Barton Flats region by an adult black bear (...he lived!). A young female jogger wasn't so lucky. Dragged off by a mountain lion on Hwy 395, she was subsequently found partially consumed in the brush nearby. We suspect her death was unnecessary. So indicative of Californian's indifference, internet photos eyewitness to the incident sadly indicate, instead of lamely snapping pictures, the passer by could have intervened, perhaps saving her life. Should your automobile malfunction, or should you shunt, then do not venture far afoot from your vehicle alone (...heaven help you if your motorcycle breaks down! Keep a close eye out for our biker-pals). FYI: In this region, we suspect Redlands Community Hospital is likely the best equipped facility for emergency trauma or plastic surgury... They did yeoman's work patching up that boy scout, aforementioned.
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Puente Hills: Rates a 0.5 on our 5 scale ~
- GENERAL CARTOGRAPHIC NOTE: Back at the Census, I could seldom get my hands on H-06037 partition, so I was not able to spend much time reshaping Turnbull; cleaning it up, as I did with much of what you see in T.I.G.E.R. F-06037 and G-06037 partitions. This area, what you see below, was assigned to an indifferent, incompetent cartographer during the 2000 Decennial Census. Trying to zoom you in, for a closer look at what's below? Turnbull is a fucking mess. I'll have to reshape every vector, manually, in ArcView, before I can produce satisfactory, large-scale cartography of this area.
