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Just north of LA there's a pretty fun mountain road that goes nowhere. There's a restaurant/bar, hiking and camping, and some closed ski areas but the highway just goes up there about 50 miles and dead ends. My friends and I have a tendency to go up there mostly because it's the closest place to go out for a fun drive. Tonight we went up there and it was really foggy and cold and I managed to take a couple of neat pictures.

Like this one:



It got even more foggy right after that and we decided to take a picture of ourselves standing around looking cold:



End of the road:



And snow. In Southern California:



okay well we are at like 7000ft so that might have something to do with it.

There's a tunnel up there:



Which was really creepy. Especially with the car and flashlights off.

It looked kind of like that:



Then I had my friend stand still with a flashlight for 15 seconds:



And we took some other pictures:





Then we started joking around about cougars and how this would make a great start for a horror movie and decided to move on.

Here's a ski hill:



And that's about it for that trip. When it's clear and you go up to Mt. Wilson it looks like this:



Here's the gallery I made with more pictures:

http://jamalb.net/gallery/v/crest/

Here's an old google map I made with some other pictures.

wow, great pictures! that tunnel really is creepy, especially the pic with the light behind the car

Wow. That looks amazing.

+1 on the tunnel looking creepy.

This picture makes it looks like zombies are about to walk out of the tunnel. Like they're going to come out of that fog. I don't know why, but it does. Hahahaha.

Aesome pics! Nice to have your every own touge!

Yeah that tunnel should be burned down or something really creepy.

cool pictures!

i like your rediculously bright lights

This one takes the cake!

Nice. Looks terrific. You must have a good camera to get those night shots.

Thanks. it's a Canon S3 IS, which is about as good as you can get before going into DSLR territory. They're only like $250 these days since the S5 came out.

I really was past the limit of that camera though. it only takes 15s max exposures so I had to really bump up the ISO setting on a lot of those which made them grainy.

Here are a few more from up there:







These are from a pullout farther down and the top of Mt. Wilson a few months ago:



Full tele with a 12x optical zoom. Probably needed a lower iso setting:

ok right now, your car IS jesus. ha ha
with all the lights and stuff, its just epic

I'm still not really happy with the beam spread though because it's not wide enough to see into corners. Fortunately I have a solution:

i would love for my headlights to be as bright as yours anyday. and wow... those should work then huh?...ha ha

Cool shots!
I have the same Canon, I'm pretty pleased with it except for the graininess of some pictures. And the first one I got had something on the inside of the lens, so I had to return it.
What mode did you use for that ski hill pic?

I took all those in manual mode with as low of an iso setting as the light would allow. So a couple were 15s exposure with the aperture wide open and ISO400/800.

I think the ski hill was a 10s exposure at ISO100 with f/2.7

The EXIF data is in the gallery but doesn't say the iso setting.

I agree with the other Mike. Either of those pictures with the light behind your car are amazing.

Nice pics! I saw them somewhere else and wondered if there were any goons on the BBS... Looks like there is

Kowalski wrote:Nice pics! I saw them somewhere else and wondered if there were any goons on the BBS... Looks like there is

sybir is too. I don't know of anyone else.