Nice trip report! I too was led down a path of impassable despair by my GPS recently. I blogged the experience at: http://gismemories.blogspot.com/ There are 2 posts with "Twelve Mile Road" in the title about it. Edward At 09:53 PM 7/20/2007, Michael Elliott wrote: >Long trip report: > >But I was led astray by my GPS (DeLorme Topo 6). Instead of showing me >the easy way in (off 88 via Hope Valley), Topo 6 decided that a 4WD road >leading past Red Lake near Carson Pass would be more, uh, "direct" I >guess is the word. I didn't have enough sense to check its reasoning. > >There is no way that an overloaded 2WD Westy could get in on that road >-- the potholes could swallow a collie -- but while I was trying to >horse Mellow Yellow around them I figured that either I was a weenie >driver or the road had fallen into disrepair. It wasn't until several >days later that I went and re-read the description of how to get there >(Best of Tent Camping, Northern California) that I realized my error. We >could have gone back to visit the Blue Lakes later, but we found a sweet >spot that we liked. But that's getting ahead of myself. |
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