Since there is a storm on its way and it is a holiday weekend, I thought this mountain folks guide to winter driving would be appropriate–don’t be fooled by the tone, it is a serious look at winter driving safety tips for mountain driving.
Icy roads, deep snowdrifts, and unexpected cold temperatures are just some of […]

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Thanks to those of you who submitted questions after I posted, What about those chain restrictions? This is the second part of that series on traction control devices aka tire chains, tire cables, spike spiders, and similar devices.
You’ll notice the official term is “traction control device” (per CalTrans) but heck who uses that term […]

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Locals have been complaining about the chain restrictions up here. When we have visitors this can be a good thing BUT the problem seems to be with the lack of sense used by whoever sets the restrictions.
We mountain folk think that it is a flatlander who set the road restrictions because once the main roads […]

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