Best Route to Yosemite
Hi everyone, we are in Cheyenne, in the parking lot of freightliner service center, getting small repair should be on the road tomorrow towards Lake Tahoe. Going to stay there a few days and then head...
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msmith1199 wrote:
To the OP, I see you are from Florida. I've been in California all my life and over all these mountain passes dozens of times, so consider that when taking my advice here. To me all the routes that have been described for you are no big deal. I wouldn't even have cautioned you about Priest Grade as to me it's nothing. It's just a slow climb going up with lots of switch backs, but that's just a normal mountain road for us in California. I sometimes forget that the tallest mountain in Florida is Space Mountain. Tropical36 is talking about the road too, but he's also from Florida. I like the part where he says he's originally from WV so he should be used to those kinds of roads. The highest elevation in WV is less than 5,000 feet. In California we call that a hill, not a mountain. I guess some of these mountain roads can get pretty hairy if you're mostly used to driving around in the flat country.
Actually, I didn't have a problem with Priest Grade, it was just a surprise after coming in from the east and thought, I'd better more than announce it, for the benefit of others, as well. No, WV isn't much for altitude, but some of the back roads can be quite steep and curvy. We used to say that you could see your tail lights while going around some of them and a 40ft coach with a toad might be pretty intimidating to many. As for cars, we'd slide around the turns, just for funniness, in the old days and there wasn't much for guard rails, either.
