Mt Palomar
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OK, the highlight of this trip
was the nicest roads yet. So, I have a few shots of them on this page. The
scenery was gorgeous but the roads were twisty and fun. Very popular with
the motorcycle crowd. |
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This is Mothers kitchen. Again
very popular with the bikers. So much so that at Mothers Kitchen there was
a sign telling them not to hang out, not to be abusive of paying customers
and so on. Seems there can be some pretty large biker crowds. Not sure if
there is a specific group that misbehaves or not but they give us all a
bad wrap. |
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Uh Oh.. watch out.. watch
out... Hey on some of these corners if you go off the road you are in
serious trouble unless a cloud catches you. |
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At the top of Mt. Palomar
besides a National Forest there is the Mt. Palomar observatory. It has a
200 inch telescope. Seems that these days nobody actually sits at the
eyepiece but instead they use photographic media or electronic recording
devices. The human eye can only see 2% of available light while these
other means can capture 97%. They basically expose them for hours to catch
all the available light. |
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Like I said the road is the
star on this trip... This is lake Henshaw. |
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And one last shot. Going up the
east side you are on S6 and it is real steep and twisty. Down the back
side is S7 and the curves are more gentle and slightly banked. I call them
Heaven. |