• meep_launcher@lemm.ee
    122·
    26 days ago

    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!

      • meep_launcher@lemm.ee
        10·
        26 days ago

        Honestly I got really high one night and had just seen the Shia LaBeouf song, so I decided to write my own fanfiction but sneaking it into random comments on Lemmy, and then I just kinda kept doing it. So no copy, but this is OC pasta.

        I’m gonna coin the term “getting LaBeouf’ed”

        You just got LaBeouf’ed.

  • niktemadur@lemmy.world
    3·
    26 days ago

    A steep so slope, it keep you woke!
    Seriously, don’t drive down this thing in your semi-truck tired, don’t even think about going down that waterpark slide unless you’re well rested when you get there.

    Imagine this spot being your best alternative as a civil engineer, that’s one helluva mountain range. What’s this, like a pass between the Karakoram or something? Somewhere in the Andes?

  • HottieAutie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    2·
    27 days ago

    Anyone know where this is?

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

    • expatriado@lemmy.world
      2·
      27 days ago

      lots of serpentine roads like that in South America’s Andes, we even have a train that moves back and forth as it sigsags up the mountain

    • lunsjentilanette@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      27 days ago

      This is so strange. I have almost been there… on a work trip where i visited the hydro power plant just 50-100 meters down the road. Had no idea that was there…

        • lunsjentilanette@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          27 days ago

          Just a site visit as part of a larger trip in the country (some knowledge exchange stuff in a hydro power company i used to work for), so we were visiting several parts of the power plants down the Aconcagua valley among other areas. This was the highest point of that particular part of the trip.

    • ysjet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      26 days ago

      You really should think about not crossing over into the opposite lane, especially on blind turns on a switchback.

      • FewerWheels@mander.xyz
        11·
        18 days ago

        None of it was blind. You can see through every one. Also, the camera didn’t have the contrast ability to show that I could see deep into the tunnel. Why do to think the corners were blind? Did you see some trees or berms that werent there?

    • SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee
      3·
      26 days ago

      See this is the most unamerican bullshit ever said on this plateform…just left me fucking live without government oversight. It’s people like you who keep me and my people suppressed. I’m sick of absolute puss bags of people letting my pure blooded Americans from living their full lives. You expect us to live by your rules because you can’t even handle a slope in your Nissan leaf. Someone is own insatiable FUCK mobiles that can handle this grade. It’s not my fault you care about my body enough to try and regulate it. It’s my body, and it’s my choice what I do with it…lol

    • pdxfed@lemmy.world
      1·
      27 days ago

      I imagine part of the reason why this was done was to not only have the road, but have it be much less susceptible to erosion so it last longer and is safer. I’m definitely no public works engineer but seems Iike the different tiers would help stop/limit slides

  • Blackout@fedia.io
    1·
    27 days ago

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