Anyone know where this is?
Edit: Found it! It's Los Caracoles (The Snails) pass in Chile next to the Argentine border.
lots of serpentine roads like that in South America's Andes, we even have a train that moves back and forth as it sigsags up the mountain
This is so strange. I have almost been there.... on a work trip where i visited the hydro power plant just 50-100 meters down the road. Had no idea that was there...
What did you do there?
Just a site visit as part of a larger trip in the country (some knowledge exchange stuff in a hydro power company i used to work for), so we were visiting several parts of the power plants down the Aconcagua valley among other areas. This was the highest point of that particular part of the trip.
Los Caracoles? (west out of Los Andes)
It's Spanish for "The Caracoles".
Make it straight, and put a ramp on the bottom for epic jumps.
it looks at Lombard St. in SF
“Pathetic”
Honestly that is probably less dangerous than the regular streets of SF. Never felt more like I was about to die in a cab than I did riding in SF. Dude seemed to know what he was doing but it felt like a roller coaster.
That parking space for the white car in the first photo looks like it sucks.
Surprised it’s still the whole car and not just the front.
I wonder if that is actually an allowed space.
How that proposal looks in winter
Ooh, now I want to see sb drive up that
You and your car would be dead not even halfway up that proposed ramp.
I imagine part of the reason why this was done was to not only have the road, but have it be much less susceptible to erosion so it last longer and is safer. I'm definitely no public works engineer but seems Iike the different tiers would help stop/limit slides
I can smell the dying breaths of clutch mechanisms from here.
Just don't use it! 😁
Speed shifting ftw!
rip to your transmission
I never use my clutch and I usually get 10,000 miles to the transmission.
Put it in second and keep it there.
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee~eeeeeeeeeeeeeee~
~splat~
China also has an amazing switchback highway called the Pamir sky road with over 600 hairpin turns in under 36km
Big asphalt at it again.
Swiss would drill a tunnel.
Not pictured is the incline that the switchbacks are set at. They put the exact minimum required, so most vehicles are struggling just with the switchbacks.
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I mean yea we want to stop erosion, but also going in a straight line is efficient. It's all you can afford. You are in a dead sprint, forgetting the gash on your head. Down, down, down hill you go- it gets steeper but you try to use gravity to your advantage. You can't let him catch you. You need to get to your car as soon as possible. What you and Sam saw back there was too much, and you both need to get as far away as possible. You are almost leaping with every sprint, but then you hit a patch of loose gravel and slip backwards, hitting your head on the ground. You feel dazed as you curl up grabbing the back of your skull. More blood comes out onto your hands, you know you are concussed but you also know the only way for survival is forward. You get back up and move as fast as you can. You look for Sam but in the confusion you lost him. You look around but the California landscape goes for miles, and you know this is where people disappear. You see far below is a stream, and all streams go down hill. You keep up the pace until you come to the waters lapping up to the pebbles around. You start moving down the flow of the stream as it gets larger. As you run, you see him- "SAM" you call out. He's sitting on a log looking up, but he doesn't turn around. You run up to him, the striped shirt you gave him is torn up. "Sam?" That's when you know that somehow you've been outmanoeuvred.
A pike was holding the body of Sam up on the log, as if he was a lawn ornament. You best friend who you saved twice in Kuwait sat there, upright, but the life was long gone. You promised his mother you would keep him safe, but now you failed in what was supposed to be a small day hike.
Suddenly you see a flash of metal from the side of your eyes. Your concussion plus the sun makes it so hard to see, but you finally make out the figure who put you two through all this. Suddenly you vomit as you stumble to get away, but you become dizzy and splash into the shallows of the river. You try to get out when suddenly a hand grabs you by the hair and pulls you up.
There he is. Bloodied hands and all. You never thought you would be here. You never thought you would die by his hand. You never thought it would be today. You never thought it would be
But at the end of the day we want to minimize the impact of human activity in protected areas. Having switchbacks for stable roads helps avoid unnecessary maintenance that could be even more disruptive. Civil engineering is important!
Road bike line vs downhill mtb line.
The incline would be too steep and you would lose stopping power, increase rollovers.
You only need one lane going up, and a jump off ramp at the top
Gotta unlock it with a stunt
No guardrail that I can see.
*Street view confirms no guardrail.
Video here https://maps.app.goo.gl/SERFBifCZs7Ztvif6
So you can take the straight path if you choose!
For 15 dollars you can park your car in a mountain elevator which will go up in a straight line on the side of the mountain. LOL.
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