The story
Feel the road working here, the way each switchback throws you one direction and then reels you back the other. Engineers had to fold this grade against itself to lose all that elevation gently. Down to your right the slope falls away in long sun-bleached folds, raw rock and scattered brush, nothing soft about it. There's a grandeur in roads like this, the patient kind, the kind that respect a mountain instead of fighting it. Easy on the brakes. Let the car ride the descent and let the desert build itself up around you as you come down.
