Death cab… er mini for Hillary

On Sunday, Josh decided to take me on a scenic ride. We started on Sand Canyon road,  it connects Santa Clarita to Angeles National Forest. Well Josh found this road on google maps satellite view that is a “shortcut” to the Angeles Highway. He’s been looking for it everytime he drives Sand Canyon. Well he found it when we went with me and started up the road.

The road should seriously be closed. It was sooo old that you couldn’t even see the yellow lines on the road at all. It was a grey crumbly mess. Not to mention the road was just wide enough for my mini to fit on it. Any other vehicle would have been scratched by the overrun bushes on each side. There’s no way 2 vehicles could pass each other on most stretches of it. Then we started to see hillside coming down from the mountain side eroding… literally piles of rocks in the road we had to drive slowly over. Some banging the bottom of my car. Then the road just started falling apart.. pot holes first then just pavement gone and 4″ drops into dirt to get back to pavement. Not to mention this road kept going higher and higher with no guard rails and steep drop offs like mile high drop offs. Usually you can see the mountains in the distance.. yea we were in the mountains and there weren’t many mountains taller than the one we were on. We were above the smog and everything it was 20 degrees cooler! I was so terrified the entire time. It was like the going up the big first hill of a roller coaster but for like 12 miles straight. Plus there was no sign of human life. So I was sure the road was just going to give and mini + us would go tumbling down the side of the mountain stranded for days with no one finding us… nursing our wounds and surviving on wheat thins, cheddar bunnies and gatorade. Ugh… it flashed before me eyes!

Well we finally got to the top, a point where we could go no further because my mini couldn’t make it when the pavement stopped and we got out of the car. It seems to go to a cell tower or electricity tower or something… not sure what it was for because there weren’t homes or anything for miles. I’m sure if anyone has to work on it, they take a helicopter there. There were a ton of bullet casing and stuff at the top of the hill and the signs on the way up were all shot up with bullet holes. Obviously horror movie like activity goes on along that road!

Anyway we went back down for the 12 miles and miraculous I’m here to tell about it.

Photos here… though they don’t do it much justice