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[*] posted on 6-17-2009 at 10:18 PM


Another photo of the old road, northbound... it was maintained back then until 1974. Then all Gonzaga supplies and fish shipments came and went south to the new highway. The section north of Gonzaga to Puertecitos got worse and worse.

My last time over the old road was in 1979, and it was nearly impassable, in 4WD!

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[*] posted on 6-18-2009 at 06:57 AM


:lol: DK I knew you would fill in a few of the holes good job.

That last pic is the same hill that had the dreaded ledge only down stream aways,sometime during that period someone smoothed off the steps with concrete,made that stretch just a bit better.

On that hill the first time:lol:never forget it my wife looks down the canyon and see,s all the wrecks that didn,t make it up,yells at me to stop,she wants to get out and walk then she wants to turn around and go home:O

I had to stop couldn,t make it,put on the brakes and start sliding backwards down the hill:o to make a long story shorter we made it only after everyone got out and walked up and I made it on the third run at the hill.

At the top we had a celebration and I felt like Rocky:lol:

Funny thing but after a couple of weeks at PaPa,s place my wife was already looking forward to the next trip down:lol:
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The trip home was much easyer all the up hills were now down hills,the problem then was how do I stop?

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