Top of the Grapevine, lost all air pressure!
The "Grapevine" is the mountain pass on the "5" descending into Los Angeles, the summit a little over 4,000 ft. On Sunday, around noon, I was just beginning the decent and felt the ride getting stiff...
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tahiti16 wrote:msmith1199 wrote:
Just a technical correction, the Grapevine is actually the section of I-5 that runs from Lebec down into the San Joaquin Valley through "Grapevine Canyon."
Pretty much "the Grapevine" is from Castaic in the south to Grapevine the town in the north. Steeper going into the central valley than the Santa Clarita valley but a big hill either direction. :B
"At an elevation of 1,499 feet, the community is located at the foot of a grade known as The Grapevine that starts at the mouth of Grapevine Canyon, immediately south of the community, and ascends the canyon to the Tejon Pass in the Tehachapi Mountains via Interstate 5 (formerly U.S. Route 99).The village and grade are named, not for the once-winding road known as the Grapevine that used to climb the steep mountain canyon, but for the canyon it passed through with its wild grapes that still grow along the original road. Its Spanish name was La Cañada de las Uvas."
