good afternoon youtube we're up here at the end of uh stevens creek road so this is where the
landslide is that took out the old road that used to run through here and from the looks of it they
must have done a lot of work up here keeping this road open and this is probably what's left over
from when the slide took out the road as you can see there's all these concrete fence posts
and guard rails that they must have had up there and there's just a huge pile of dirt and debris
that they've hauled out of here and then over here looks like they were actually stockpiling
rock fill to repair the road so they probably had material in here to repair it and then they
used this area to put the debris that came down because they were probably fighting with this
road for decades i imagine yeah they probably had either slide material coming down over the road
or they had the bottom of the road sliding out and i think this is what finally closed
the road i don't know when this occurred i know when i first came up here like in
2011 this looked like really fresh like really light colored soil and there was hardly any
vegetation growing so i don't know if that was a recent slide or if that was the big one that took
it out they probably waged quite a few battles up here with this slide until they finally gave
up this is right where the san andreas fault goes through you can see right up here there's the red
really steep slope on the other side of the creek where the fault runs and it comes right through
here and it's that those plates grinding against each other just grind this rock here to powder
right here this is this is kind of on top of the slide here and i think the old road used
to come right up here at least the old trail did right around there but yeah this is some
of that serpentonite rock it's a metamorphosed basalt that uh is very crumbly and you can see
it just crumbles and you add water and this stuff just flows like literally like wet concrete
and then over here you can see where the landslide star just goes all the way up the hill there
yeah so here we are on the far side of the slide area and that i believe is the old wrecked car
down there kind of at the base of that tree but you can really hear the creek running there's
a pretty good roar coming in from down below but anyway i'm thinking i might try to side hill over
here the slope down from the trail is really steep okay there's the rear end of the car man this is a
steep hill luckily there's some little trees along here that you can lean up against and hold on to
see if i can get over a little bit closer there okay here's the wrecked car yeah imagine these
trees were here when it came down the hill the road is right straight above me there
yeah if anybody is a car expert if you can figure out what kind of car this is i was hoping there'd
be a badge or something on it on the back but no such luck now the trunk still works i see some
springs from the rear seat cushion in there and it's got the sprayed in trunk liner material there
i think these trees were the ones that maybe stopped at the dents on the side of the car line
up with where the trees are let's see if i can get a closer picture of that uh door handle yeah
there's the door handle looks like the door lock it doesn't uh open there but pretty well rusted
shot yeah it is a two-door and let's see there's the uh the rear fender it's kind of beat in but
if that's a marker light sticking out of the side a little bit yeah so if there's any uh old car
experts that could uh identify this thing figure out what year i'm guessing you know late 40s early
50s i think that's a firewall there and looks like it had a coil spring front suspension there's a
coil spring an upper control arm if i can get up there this is like super steep and it's just
covered with with loose debris and that's the way it is all the way up to the road up there
without a rope i don't think you could get down or get back up this thing i see some lettering
here this is on the firewall not sure what that says but yeah that's about all all i can see i
was hoping to see like a vin tag or something like that maybe they didn't have them back then
so the hood is gone there's a windshield wiper right there and then the roof is all caved in
i've got the camera tipped over about 42 degrees and then we're level here with the
the car so this is a steep till man these trees weren't here it would be down in the
creek and yeah you can see the creek down there definitely flowing a lot of rocks down there
now let's see if i can get out of here reverse my steps i came up by that tree and down there
below this bunch of trees that stop the car but there is another car or two down there i gotta
take a look down this canyon and see see what it looks like down there
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