July in California

"Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)" (rduncan5678) 07/28/2019 at 18:32 • Filed to: None

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Quite the white ribbon of death, but the snow was quite nice and the cloud cover kept things from getting too slushy. Overall it was a beautiful day in the mountains though. Summer time in the Sierras is just super lovely. Unfortunately, the weekend went to shit though when my friend (pictured above) took a bad fall and we ended up at the hospital.

Get ready for a gnarly xray!

We were supposed to camp another night but I ended up being tasked with driving us home after finally getting released from the hospital. At least I got to drive a manual golf alltrack and then be able to make it to the Oppo meet in Fresno for the rest of the weekend.

Yes that number says 112F. Sure it wasn’t actually that warm, but leaving the car out in the sun for lunch resulted in this. It was definitely over 100 though this weekend. Very glad I have AC! Just very funny to me that I went skiing and saw weather this hot in the same weekend.

Lovely meetup though and IM is a great host. He fed us well, kept us entertained, and showed us that Fresno really isn’t that bad! We at least can consider it not the armpit of California.

Quite the adventure and fast paced change of plans though! I thought id be mountain biking of something else but this surely works too. Looking forward to coming back another time when it’s cooler weather for sure.

facw > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) 07/28/2019 at 18:37

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X -ray does not look good. He doing ok?

MM54 > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) 07/28/2019 at 18:43

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That is a nasty xray, hopefully he makes a full recovery.

I was in Fresno a couple evenings while on vacation at the beginning of the month, doesn’t seem like a bad place at all.

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > MM54 07/28/2019 at 19:08

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It's got a bad reputation, especially to people in LA or in SF. And it makes sense with how downtown seems. But with a local guide, it's a nice area. 

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > facw 07/28/2019 at 19:09

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Well he's alive and it's diagnosed to heal normally in like 6-8 weeks. But it will certainly result in suffering for a while. 

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) 07/28/2019 at 19:12

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The armpit is Bakersfield. 

DipodomysDeserti > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) 07/28/2019 at 20:55

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TBH, if people from LA and SF think its bad, it’s probably awesome..

gettingoldercarguy > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) 07/28/2019 at 21:00

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Didn’t go into the spinal column too much so it’ll only hurt like hell, missed nerve damage . He’ll have arthritis earlier than normal in life however .