Here's an obligatory photo at the bottom of an iconic trail aptly named "Car Wreck."
Late one Saturday night about seventy years ago, a group of merrymakers was partying down on Laguna Beach. After getting their fill of sand and the surf, the group piled into one of the kid's dad's 1946 Dodge 5 Passenger Sedan. They were cruising a remote dirt road along the ridgeline high above Laguna Canyon. As is sometimes the case, things didn't go quite as planned. The car slipped off the road and over the embankment. No amount of finesse and muscle could get the car back up onto the road. If they couldn't get the car up, maybe they could get it down. The chaparral is dense, and their downward attempt proved futile. Eventually all efforts to recover the car were abandoned.
Today, the car sits about half a mile from where it started out, at the bottom of one of the steeper and more rugged "established" downhill runs in Socal.
Late one Saturday night about seventy years ago, a group of merrymakers was partying down on Laguna Beach. After getting their fill of sand and the surf, the group piled into one of the kid's dad's 1946 Dodge 5 Passenger Sedan. They were cruising a remote dirt road along the ridgeline high above Laguna Canyon. As is sometimes the case, things didn't go quite as planned. The car slipped off the road and over the embankment. No amount of finesse and muscle could get the car back up onto the road. If they couldn't get the car up, maybe they could get it down. The chaparral is dense, and their downward attempt proved futile. Eventually all efforts to recover the car were abandoned.
Today, the car sits about half a mile from where it started out, at the bottom of one of the steeper and more rugged "established" downhill runs in Socal.
