The minivan is dead and my wife and I are in the middle of buying a house, so I needed my dose of cheap therapy today.

Was in La Canada to drop off some stuff at the escrow company, so naturally I took Angeles Crest back to Burbank.

That's downtown Los Angeles in the background.

Hard to see with the smog ...

Another view point ... this one overlooking Big Tujunga reservoir.

Damn, where did you go? Thats WAAAY more smog then usual. My favorite road: go up to red box, while you're there theres a small (read SMALL) road past the ranger station. Basically take a right from the main road past the parking lot there. Ohh, its fun. Also Upper Tujunga road is good. You'll have to look for that one. Its up past red box and theres a right hand turnoff. The road is too rough though for a 914, i think.

Here's the reservoir ...

I was almost back in civilization when I hit a detour. That stream must have been a torrent during the rain storms, and washed part of the road away. I had to do a bit of off-roading to get around it.

A closer look ...

QUOTE (MattR @ Feb 3 2005, 03:23 PM)

Damn, where did you go?  Thats WAAAY more smog then usual.  My favorite road: go up to red box, while you're there theres a small (read SMALL) road past the ranger station.  Basically take a right from the main road past the parking lot there.  Ohh, its fun.  Also Upper Tujunga road is good.  You'll have to look for that one.  Its up past red box and theres a right hand turnoff.  The road is too rough though for a 914, i think.

I took Chevy Chase up from Foothill Blvd. I know the smog looks bad here, but it looks even worse when you're viewing it from the mountains in the east. It looks like a brown pillow sitting on the horizon.

I'll have to find the road off of red box. Have you tried going up to Mt. Wilson? TIGHT curves. Ran out of daylight, so I never made it up to the top ... gonna have to try it again some day.

Tujunga ?? this isn't going to be about mike Z's avatar again is it? I WISH more than anything I could take a drive like that in Jan.!