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Originally Posted by jorgelito
They pulled on to a road that was supposed to be closed but vandals had opened it again. We don't know that is was "obviously a bad idea to drive down it".
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Vandals or not, have you seen an unplowed mountain road in the middle of winter? It's clearly NOT meant for driving. All I am saying is that to me, if I had turned off of the largest interstate on the west coast and found myself driving up an unplowed road that was clearly unused and full of snow, I'd be thinking, "Damn, this is a bad idea... I'm turning around."
DDDDave sums it up here, actually... this is exactly what I was thinking when I read the story. I know I-5. I've seen those remote mountain roads. And that's why I really don't understand what he was thinking. Did his wife object, I wonder? Was he unfamiliar with the Oregon mountains? I just don't get it.
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Originally Posted by DDDDave
After they left the Denny's at 9:30 pm they passed at least (2) 4'x8' signs with big red warnings 'Road closed in winter. Roads are unplowed.' How can a grown man with a wife and 2 little girls proceed down a basically impassable road at night and drive for 4 hours. (They 'stopped for the night' at 2am) ??? The wife said they had to stop several times to 'remove rocks from the road' so they could get past. I know my wife would have been like 'WTF are you doing??? Turn around'. I read that when he tried to back up he had to open the door because the snow was so deep on the windows. When the door was open the snow came in so they decided to just continue on. Hello, where is your head man? The road that they eventually turned down was supposed to have a gate but didn't. But then they still travelled almost 15 miles. 15 miles on an unpaved unplowed road in the middle of the night in a snowstorm.
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