{"id":6802,"date":"2019-12-04T19:54:49","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T03:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=6802"},"modified":"2019-12-04T19:59:55","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T03:59:55","slug":"an-elevated-pucker-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/12\/04\/an-elevated-pucker-factor\/","title":{"rendered":"An elevated pucker factor…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We ducked into a candy store in Sonora while exploring a very wet Highway 49, and I thought of you, Fred. The YooHoo review is in the queue, my friend.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was not intended to be an inclement weather Subie road test, but that’s what our Bay Area\/Yosemite\/Tahoe\/Bishop trek has become.\u00a0 Talk about weather…wow!\u00a0 It’s either been rain or snow with only one day of sunshine, but it was sunshine below freezing at high altitudes on Highway 88 into Lake Tahoe.\u00a0 The rules said I was supposed to have tire chains or 4WD with snow tires, but hell, I’ve never been too good with rules.\u00a0 I’m talking slick roads with walls of snow taller than the top of my Subie Outback.\u00a0 We rode the ice nearly all the way. \u00a0 It was grand fun, and the Subaru hasn’t missed a beat.\u00a0 Chains?\u00a0 We don’t need no stinking chains!<\/p>\n

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We only ventured about 10 miles into Yosemite when discretion won out over valor.\u00a0 The visibility was low and the snow was high, so we called it a day and turned around.\u00a0 We stayed in Groveland at a grand old hotel and had dinner in the oldest bar in California (the Iron Door Grill).\u00a0 It used to be a sporting palace back in the day (I asked, but all the sports ladies had long since retired). \u00a0 The Gold Rush Highway the next day was grand even in the rain, but the ride up to Lake Tahoe was a bit on the scary side.\u00a0 And then the ride down the Kingsbury Grade from Tahoe down to Highway 395 was just flat terrifying…it was 20 miles per hour all the way down in a heavy snowfall. \u00a0 The 395 was daunting, too, with most of it in the snow.\u00a0 But hey, we’re here in Bishop, we’re warm, and we’re ready to continue in the morning.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow it’s Death Valley and then home.\u00a0 The weather is supposed to be nice and that almost seems like a letdown after what we’ve driven through.\u00a0 The Subie is a star in the snow and we’re loving it.<\/p>\n

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It was not intended to be an inclement weather Subie road test, but that’s what our Bay Area\/Yosemite\/Tahoe\/Bishop trek has become.\u00a0 Talk about weather…wow!\u00a0 It’s either been rain or snow with only one day of sunshine, but it was sunshine below freezing at high altitudes on Highway 88 into Lake Tahoe.\u00a0 The rules said I … Continue reading “An elevated pucker factor…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[96,64],"tags":[968],"class_list":["post-6802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feel-good-stuff","category-gear","tag-subaru-outback"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6802"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6813,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6802\/revisions\/6813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}