Two weekends ago Bundu Trek toured Lockwood valley, near Frazier Park California. The weather was sunny and cool, perfect for a day trip. We stopped just outside of Frazier Park to visit the Ridge Route museum. Unfortunately the museum is not open on the weekend or at least not the weekend that we were there, but there are plenty of things to see outside of the museum on display.
We have driven sections of the remaining Ridge Route from Castaic to Gorman. It twists and turns and circles and can make you dizzy if you aren't careful!
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| This is a road flare from prehistoric times - such as my childhood. I remember these around road construction sites with their small flame burning to warn motorists. No one else in the group had ever seen one before and were stumped as to what it was until I enlightened them. |
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| Pump the fuel up into the bowl and then let gravity feed it into your vehicle. One of our group said that they bought gas from a pump like this once. |
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| Who knew that this is an historical artifact? I have two of them hanging in my garage and I used them for desert trips pre A/C Jeep days. The water does stay cool but tastes a bit dusty when left hanging on the front of the vehicle. |
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| This cabin dates from the 1850s. I think it is a tesseract portal to the fourth dimension. Look how small on the outside... |
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| ...and spacious on the inside! How else to explain? |
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| A horse drawn concrete mixer used in the construction of the Ridge Route. |
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| Airship support at the large ranger station on Lockwood Valley road. We chatted up the crew at the station. Very nice young men and very supportive of offroad users of the forest. |
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| We took an easy trail of the of the main road. The forest service map we had was useless as it did not match the marked trail at all. |
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| We climbed this steep hill and then the lead vehicle stopped at the top. Time to recce a bit. |
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| Looking back up from the other side of the hill. The crossing at the bottom was washed out and the banks of the creek were too high to try without the risk of burying the nose of the lead Jeep in the bank. The downslope was very loose and crumbly which would make extraction of the Jeep difficult. Very difficult actually. We exercised common sense and turned around and had lunch. |
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| Headed back out after another great trip! |
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