yea, Priest Grade is higher up on 120, well after you turned back on to 49.
The "grade" is steep but it is fairly straight. And it is only a few miles
long. The trip from 120 to Bear Valley (where I live and not the ski
resort), is a windy twisty little name calling road. Every once in a while
I'll meet someone at the local store who has just driven an RV up that
thing. "It looked like a good road on the map... argh" as they sweat and
drip all over the floor ;)
Michelle Stone
Argo Navis and
Custom Telescopes by Plettstone
http://www.plettstone.com/telescopes
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sf-bay-tac-bounces@No-Spam [mailto:sf-bay-tac-bounces@No-Spam]On
> Behalf Of Mark Wagner
> Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 7:41 PM
> To: sf-bay-tac@No-Spam
> Subject: Re: [TAC] Columbia to Plettstone via Moccasin Creek
>
>
> At 8/9/2004, you wrote:
>
> >So you turned off 49 and headed east towards Pine Mountain Lake? That's
> >the 120 again (according to Online maps). Zoom in and it looks like a
> >narly road. How far up did you go? Priest and turn around???
>
> I think I stayed on 49. How about that! I guess it wasn't
> Priest Grade -
> that is, as you said, on 120. 49 itself is a haul though,
> between Moccasin
> and Bear Valley, 11 miles east of Mariposa.
>
> In retrospect, it was a fun, although long, drive. Never been
> there before.
>
> >Great report. Wish you'd come here and pick me up first before
> heading to
> >Plettstone. :D
>
> Let's just pick a place to meet.... :-)
>
> Think I'm off to Coe this weekend, Saturday. You're very welcome to join
> me there!
>
> Thanks...
>
> Mark
>
>
>
Received on Mon Aug 9 21:58:07 2004