Hmm....

Mayhap I will have to try again.

I tried to pick it up from the Encino Hills side. I wonder if the gate is open part of the time and closed others?

Oh well, if I get a chance, I'll try it from Topanga. Hopefully there are at least TWO open gates, or I guess I'll have to do it once each direction.

Thanks for the heads-up,
Mike

 

FYI: Liebre mountain burned last summer and is closed to ALL motor traffic for AT LEAST 5 years, at least that is what the Rim of the World Organizers have been told..


Too bad, as that was a good portion of the stage miles for both Rim and Gorman Ridge rallies.

 

Oh, the duce, you say!
That was an old favorite... if you're right, it's gonna be a long 5 years.


Hey pete,
You have an encyclopedic (sp) knowledge on california backroads... I'm contemplating a huge "desert loop": From near Coachella, I'd take the Bradshaw Trail out to near Blythe... then Midway road from Blythe to Rice (also noted as Blythe-Rice Rd on some maps)... then Cadiz road all the way to I-15. It would be about 200 miles of dusty dirt, but I know nothing about road conditions...

I don't suppose you do?

Just hopin'
Mike

 

Once you get to the other side of 40 you are pretty much outside my territory.

Let me know when you find out more though, that sounds like it would be a great adventure.

(A lot more of it than you expect might have been paved at one time or another.)

 

Damn...

I'm back up here in Santa Cruz, and I never got out on the trails.

What with all the Christmas stuff/Family, I didn't have a free day untill Monday, at which point I didn't want to risk flash-flooding out in the desert.

...So we drove home in the rain before the storm could close I-5.

Maybe next time...
Damn.
M

 

made this up

 

Thanks, Mr T

Of course now I'm not in LA anymore, so it'll have to wait.

Have you ever been up there?

Some folks have said that the road surface is pretty ragged (which is do big deal, really). Also, I'm wondering if as a driver you have to share the road with lots of bikes and walkers... don't want to plow into any civillians while comming around a corner...

thanks again for the mappage,
Mike

 

yah its kinda chewed up a bit and there are bikes and walkers up there but if u go at the right time of day its clear. not realy long enuff if there is that gate there also. just found it on a lark one day but i realy don;t like going there. odd bumps to it and lots of erotion but can't be blocked off coz poeple live up there and use it to get home i think

 

htats what iw as talkina bout