Thursday, April 14, 2011

The Hill That Ate Hwy. 101

That is the title of the article in the local newspaper about the landslide that completely covered 101, just 5 miles north of Garberville. This right is right smack dab in the middle of Evan and I's path to Laytonville. That is a 4 lane highway down there by the way.


This happened on Wednesday March 30th, so a little over 2 weeks ago. Evan and I had been planning to go to Laytonville that weekend and ended up going anyways like couple of idiots. Everything turned out fine and surprisingly it only took us an extra hour to take the dirt back roads.

On the way there the dirt road we were supposed to turn onto off of 101 had had its sign taken down (most likely by locals who didn't want no stinkin' city folk driving up their roads) and when we went into town to ask about it one guy asked what kind of truck we were driving and still looked doubtful when he saw Evan's muddy 4x4 truck. The other guy in there said "Your in Humboldt County now, if you see someone, you'd better duck". Somewhat laughable because Evan's parents live in Mendocine Count, which is the next one over, and they also live up a dirt road. They told us where the road was and we were feeling fine until the road took us right through someones driveway that had sign that said " Permission needs to be asked before driving through this driveway" so we kinda just went through and didn't see any rednecks with guns. The drive was beautiful and it was a fun adventure.

On the way back, we tried to take the same road and were stopped by CalTrans and asked where we were headed. We were prepared for this by the woman in the gas station in Garberville and said we were going to visit friends 2 miles down the road and they let us through! Northbound traffic was supposed to take a different route that would've added another hour to the drive making it 4 and half hours total. At least we had a little adventure, and saw some beautiful sights in Humboldt County.

3 blog posts in less than an hour=success

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