My Angeles Crest, CA ride today...(pics)

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**Just copied and pasted from our local board, should still be entertaining**

Woog, Asmith, Pat and I head out from Vegas around 0730 for a trip out to Cali. For Pat and I it was just a day trip, Woog and Asmith are staying the night and riding some more tomorrow.

So we get to Baker in 40 minutes. Victorville in about an hour from Baker. We get some food and head out to Angeles Crest. I have never been there before so I follow Woog through it. Holy shit, this road is so sick. It's literally well over 50 miles of smooth twisties!

So there we were...50 miles deep into Crest, 85 miles on that tank of gas. And we run into this!



And Asmith's fuel light is already on! Something's wrong if it comes on after 85 miles. And there's a gas station about 15 miles PAST that gate blocking the road. Anyways, might as well take a pic...



There's no way in fuck Aaron (Asmith) is gonna make it back to a gas station if we turn around. Improvising had to happen.

Woog, how'd you get over there???



Wait, how did we all get over there??? And manage to pick up a guy on a VFR...



Woog went first, did some scouting and reported back with the news. "There's a trench in the road." Fuck!! "Can we cross it, woog?" "Maybe. There's a patch of really soft sand we all might be able to walk our bikes over, if we all help move one bike at a time." That's pretty much our own option. Fuck it, let's go...

Bam! We get to the trench and the sand's not looking the greatest. It's right at the edge of a 3-foot-deep trench. And just as wide across, just about. They're all over there reinforcing the sand with some nearby sand bags. I'm thinking "There is now way I'm risking my bike through that shit." Woog mentions laying these road signs nearby across the gap and nobody really did anything until I had that thought. So I grab the sign and lay one down, and the other on top of it. Success!!






We all get over real easy. So we're hoping that's the worst of it and the ONLY reason why it was closed. As we proceed down the Crest, there's several spots of more road construction going on. Workers and everything were there...we got some pretty funny looks, with them knowing there's a fat trench in the road, lol.

One of the foreman warns us about the CHP at the exit. Sure enough, there certainly was. We get nabbed shortly after the exit.




The best part of this story is the ticket we got. "Failure to obey road sign." Hahahaha, we fucking used one as a bridge! The cop obviously must not've realized where we came from, bypassing gates and bridging it over trenches. Not sure what the fine total will be, it can't be too bad though...

Great fucking ride/experience today, boys! Let's do it again real soon!