This happened at 6:30 Pm, per Mark Readdie.
This is the one 1 mile north of Big Creek at Wing Gulch which happened Thursday.
One can access the order and the attachments here: https://www.fs.usda.gov/sites/nfs/files/r05/lospadres/publication/alerts/Order%2005%2007%2051%2026%2010%20Monterey%20Ranger%20District%20Emergency%20Closure%20except%20Pfeiffer%20Beach%20and%20Sycamore%20Canyon%20Road.pdf LOS PADRES NATIONAL FOREST MONTEREY…
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Milkweed regrowth, photo by Gail Dinsmore.
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Thank you, Kate, for the service you provide to the Big Sur community. You are a reliable and dedicated advocate and faithful reporter.
I'll second Susan!
Rotten rock with lots of fissures to speed up infiltration/percolation. Signs of "lesser" failures and/or grading within the catchment area might magnify the accumulation of water at the point where the cracks are tighter, allowing a prolonged saturated condition at the point (depth) of failure?
Is it safe for "clean-up" work? Are there any other slopes (approx. 1 1/2:1 or steeper) primed to go?
I've decided not to drive 1.
I wonder when repair of HWY 1 become a ‘fools errand’? So many points of failure from rain impacts and repeated fires. Now imagine an earthquake. Maybe consider a reopening of the old Coast Rd from Ventana/Post Ranch intersection past Cone Peak to Nacimiento Ferguson Rd. Tourists would love it.
These photos reminded Sandra of the book "Angle of Repose" by Wallace Stegner.
Ms. Mackenzie, remember the April Fools issue of the MC Weekly a couple of years ago, that Caltrans had decided to abandon Hwy. 1 ? Very funny at the time but maybe prescient.