I-84 Oregon - Cabbage Patch - multi truck collision - two fatalities

Don't matter the time of year.....rookies, even seasoned veterans come downhill to FAST.

 

You can fix a blown tire, you can fix a poorly planned route, you can fix a busted transmission.

Ya` can't fix stupid as hell.

 

Yea, gotta' respect that hill.

Never thought much about it during summer months.

In summer I'll go just below the speed limit and with full jakes holding me.

With ice/snow. I might do it at 15-20 mph and take my sweet time.

Not really even worth it going that slow tho.

I will never do it in the dark if it's got ice or snow on it.

Im not putting anything on the line for some frozen burritos.

Cheers

 

The older I get, the less nerve I have. I never had too much nerve. but in my "old age", I will admit it, I don't have any. When the weather turns bad, I slow way, way down or find a nice parking space.

 

One of the craziest mornings I ever spent was coming down the W side of Cabbage, and for me that's saying something. Spent the night on top, woke up before dawn to cold, clear skies. Started down, immediately began to recognize I'd probably erred, fog below the summit was pea soup thick, but at that point I was already screwed. The fog line was peeking in and out of view, I'm doing 15 mph, not enough room on the shoulder to safely get off the road. Couple minutes later a grain hauler comes by me doing about 70... followed by another, followed by another, followed by another. The only thing I could figger was they really did know the road like the backs of their hands because I couldn't see squat more than 20 feet ahead.

I was planning on getting off at the rest area, but could not detect the ramp and went right by it. I missed becoming another statistic that day. I swear, the times I've cheated death makes me probably the luckiest man ever born.

 

I ran that hill every week for the better part of a year from Portland to Boise /Western Idaho and back, the worst conditions were always fog related.
Too fast in the fog is the worst, ice and snow you can deal with but if you can't see it's scary.
Go too fast and you can't stop in time, go too slow and some too fast idiot may hit you.

 

I'm headed across this stretch next week wb to Portland. What mm is the hill at?