{"id":218375,"date":"2010-01-23T14:48:33","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T19:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a802758e970b"},"modified":"2010-01-23T17:25:04","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T22:25:04","slug":"spectacular-scenery-but-horrible-traffic-on-the-road-to-mt-baldy-mountain-high-and-big-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/218375","title":{"rendered":"Spectacular scenery but horrible traffic on the road to Mt. Baldy, Mountain High and Big Bear"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The spectacular view this morning of snow-topped mountains is luring throngs of travelers, snowboarders and skiers to local mountain resorts, clogging traffic along mountain highways, where chains are required and icy road conditions have prompted the California Highway Patrol to escort vehicles along some treacherous strips. <\/p>\n

Angeles Crest Highway is backed up to the Los Angeles County line, California Highway Patrol reported, where traffic is clogged with cars and buses moving at a walking pace. The congestion is so bad many cars are turning back. Other motorists are pulled over on the side of the highway struggling to wrap their car wheels in chains. <\/span><\/p>\n

Cars filled every single parking spot at Mountain High in Wrightwood, where traffic is bumper-to-bumper to Interstate 15, an employee of the ski resort said. The resort, blanketed with up to 4 feet\u00a0of snow, was sold out through this afternoon and was likely to sell out for the entire day. <\/p>\n

Over in the Big Bear Lake area, covered with about 5 feet of snow,\u00a0some phone lines were down after snow-covered trees collapsed, said a San Bernardino County fire official. Mt. Baldy snow measured about 7 feet. <\/p>\n

A handful of snowboarders and skiers on their way to Snow Summit Mountain Resort had stopped at Kujo’s BLT Restaurant in Big Bear Lake this morning, and a large crowd was expected later in the day. <\/p>\n

"The roads have about four inches of packed ice," said Allison Savela, head server at Kujo’s. "It’s kind of chilly, but the sun’s out now and it’s luminescent on the snow, it glitters." <\/p>\n

Skiers and snowboarders who made it up to the San Gabriel or San Bernardino resorts tweeted enthusiastically about their feat; those stuck in traffic expressed their frustrations. <\/p>\n

As noon approached, some travelers gave up. On Friday, the Twitterer going by the handle of drock100 complained of waiting for three hours to get to Big Bear. He tried again today, but turned back shortly before noon. <\/p>\n

"Heading back" to the Inland Empire, drock100 wrote, before unleashing an obscenity. <\/p>\n

Others condemned the hordes of other skiers and snowboarders coming up. <\/p>\n

"Don’t wait in traffic for 2 hrs," warned alias_amanda, who decided to head up to Mt. Baldy after being thwarted by Big Bear traffic. <\/p>\n

Some on the road remained optimistic. "Still in traffic to get to mountain high!" wrote gage909. "Doesn’t matter though, today’s gonna be epic." <\/p>\n

–Richard Winton, reporting from Mountain High, Rong-Gong Lin II and Corina Knoll, reporting from Los Angeles <\/em><\/p>\n

Update: 2:10 p.m.:\u00a0CHP turns away motorists en route to Mountain High Ski Resort near Wrightwood<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Photo credit: Twitpic by kyledlc.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 The spectacular view this morning of snow-topped mountains is luring throngs of travelers, snowboarders and skiers to local mountain resorts, clogging traffic along mountain highways, where chains are required and icy road conditions have prompted the California Highway Patrol to escort vehicles along some treacherous strips. Angeles Crest Highway is backed up to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4130,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}