Funny

Anyone know where this is?

Edit: Found it! It's Los Caracoles (The Snails) pass in Chile next to the Argentine border.

Make it straight, and put a ramp on the bottom for epic jumps.

it looks at Lombard St. in SF

“Pathetic”

How that proposal looks in winter

You and your car would be dead not even halfway up that proposed ramp.

I can smell the dying breaths of clutch mechanisms from here.

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee~eeeeeeeeeeeeeee~

~splat~

China also has an amazing switchback highway called the Pamir sky road with over 600 hairpin turns in under 36km

Initial D!!!

Swiss would drill a tunnel.

Big asphalt at it again.

Not pictured is the incline that the switchbacks are set at. They put the exact minimum required, so most vehicles are struggling just with the switchbacks.

must be a cities skylines enjoyer (modded)

I mean yea we want to stop erosion, but also going in a straight line is efficient. It's all you can afford. You are in a dead sprint, forgetting the gash on your head. Down, down, down hill you go- it gets steeper but you try to use gravity to your advantage. You can't let him catch you. You need to get to your car as soon as possible. What you and Sam saw back there was too much, and you both need to get as far away as possible. You are almost leaping with every sprint, but then you hit a patch of loose gravel and slip backwards, hitting your head on the ground. You feel dazed as you curl up grabbing the back of your skull. More blood comes out onto your hands, you know you are concussed but you also know the only way for survival is forward. You get back up and move as fast as you can. You look for Sam but in the confusion you lost him. You look around but the California landscape goes for miles, and you know this is where people disappear. You see far below is a stream, and all streams go down hill. You keep up the pace until you come to the waters lapping up to the pebbles around. You start moving down the flow of the stream as it gets larger. As you run, you see him- "SAM" you call out. He's sitting on a log looking up, but he doesn't turn around. You run up to him, the striped shirt you gave him is torn up. "Sam?" That's when you know that somehow you've been outmanoeuvred.

A pike was holding the body of Sam up on the log, as if he was a lawn ornament. You best friend who you saved twice in Kuwait sat there, upright, but the life was long gone. You promised his mother you would keep him safe, but now you failed in what was supposed to be a small day hike.

Suddenly you see a flash of metal from the side of your eyes. Your concussion plus the sun makes it so hard to see, but you finally make out the figure who put you two through all this. Suddenly you vomit as you stumble to get away, but you become dizzy and splash into the shallows of the river. You try to get out when suddenly a hand grabs you by the hair and pulls you up.

There he is. Bloodied hands and all. You never thought you would be here. You never thought you would die by his hand. You never thought it would be today. You never thought it would be

Shia LaBeouf

But at the end of the day we want to minimize the impact of human activity in protected areas. Having switchbacks for stable roads helps avoid unnecessary maintenance that could be even more disruptive. Civil engineering is important!

Road bike line vs downhill mtb line.

You only need one lane going up, and a jump off ramp at the top

The incline would be too steep and you would lose stopping power, increase rollovers.

Gotta unlock it with a stunt

No guardrail that I can see.

*Street view confirms no guardrail.

Video here https://maps.app.goo.gl/SERFBifCZs7Ztvif6

For 15 dollars you can park your car in a mountain elevator which will go up in a straight line on the side of the mountain. LOL.

Weeeeeeeeeeee

Yeeeeeehaw!