ElCap Report 5/28-29/11
By Tom Evans
Yo … the 28th started out pretty nice but the cold and wind increased as the afternoon wore on. By late afternoon a storm had moved in and a couple of teams remained on the Cap. The traffic this weekend has been awful. Seems that the boys at Traffic Control have some new plan that was to make things go smoothly, for a change. Unfortunately, the plan looked much better on paper than on the road! I left the Bridge at 5pm and the South Side Drive was not a road, but a parking lot for most of the afternoon and evening. I arrived at the Swinging Bridge, a distance of 1.6 miles from the EC Bridge, at 6:30pm and was looking at another one and a half hours of traffic to reach Curry, when I decided to park there and hoof over to the Lodge for dinner. The plan was successful and I ate at the Mt. Bar and around 8:30 went back to the van and drove to Curry in just 5 minutes. It would appear that most of the traffic problems here are due to poor planning, and Tourons unfamiliar with the American traffic system.
Anyway it was impossible to get on the Net so today’s report will combine yesterday and today.