File:Ridge Route rockslide.jpg
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This was the most significant rockslide encountered on the Ridge Route as it was traveled upon Saturday, August 21, 2004. Looking north.
In inclement weather such as rain or even snow, rockslides and/or mudslides on the Ridge Route - and in Southern California generally - increase in mountain areas such as this one. Because there is no maintenance done on the Angeles National Forest controlled portion of the Ridge Route (excepting US Forest Service help in keeping the road passable), bringing a shovel along to move rockslides and/or mudslides could prove a wise decision for today's traveler here. Ridge Route scholar and advocate Harrison Scott has written of almost being immobilized in a mudslide while traveling the 17 mile Forest controlled section.
Truckers, who in the Ridge Route's heyday rarely had air brakes on their vehicles, suffered with largely inadequate mechanical brakes. To slow their trucks down, drivers would sometimes brush the side of the hills en route to regain control - the alternative was to careen over the ridge and become part of the Ridge Route's well known "junkyards" as they were called then. Photo from private collection of avnative.
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