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Tonijim
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Aug 29, 2017

Beware "Old Priest Grad Road" - west entry to Yosemite

Learned a hard lesson today traveling on CA 120 to the west entrance to Yosemite. Google Maps told us to take what appeared to be a shortcut called "Old Priest Grade Road ". No warnings of what was to...
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timmac
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Aug 29, 2017
I took that same road in a 26 foot class A towing a Jeep, no brakes on the Jeep and I was a lone so I could not have my wife drive the Jeep, it was a wild ride and my front brakes on the motorhome were hot, at times I was in 1st gear and floored and only saw 20 mph max, {8.1 gm}, will never travel that road again in a RV..

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