Today’s featured image is a video. This was taken just a few days ago on the Old Ridge Route near Swede’s Cut. A rockfall in January 2021 has partially blocked the roadway with more material coming down in the near future. The rock, located in the Ridge Route member of the Ridge Basin Group, isn’t all that stable. Landslides still plague I-5 despite more modern construction methods.
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Ridge Route Preservation Organization
I can’t believe big rigs were stuck up there last winter! A very wrong turn.
Three big rigs were stuck up there in total as well as five others in cars. The trucks damaged the roadway in a few places and the southern gate.