Date:         Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:19:48 -0400
Reply-To:     Edward Maglott <emaglott@BUNCOMBE.MAIN.NC.US>
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From:         Edward Maglott <emaglott@BUNCOMBE.MAIN.NC.US>
Subject:      Re: Long Trip Report
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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.