Rocks in the road

BosnMate · Mar 30, 2017

Hiway 138 is closed until further notice, due to a rock slide. This is about 25 miles east of my place, the road over the Cascade Mountains, or to Diamond Lake and Crater Lake. Not a main gut, but two lane, and paved all the way.

AlienLifeForm · Mar 30, 2017

Just go pick that thing up and move it out of the road, its the right thing to do.

Oregon Viking · Mar 30, 2017

I've got some dynamite......

old digger · Mar 30, 2017

Looks like the highway department has it's work cut out to move that sucker.

tamrock · Mar 31, 2017

That happens here in Colorado from time to time. Best way to get it off the road is drill and blast to pieces.

BosnMate · Mar 31, 2017

tamrock said:
That happens here in Colorado from time to time. Best way to get it off the road is drill and blast to pieces.

That's what they did, road is open today. Who ever did the shot sure knew what he was doing. Nothing but a bunch of small rocks after the blast.

tamrock · Mar 31, 2017

BosnMate said:
That's what they did, road is open today. Who ever did the shot sure knew what he was doing. Nothing but a bunch of small rocks after the blast.

This rock came down on interstate 70 couple years ago. I'm always cautious this time of year driving the passes, due to the melt of snow during the days and freezing at night. You gets what's called Frost Wedging in the cracks and crevices of the rock knocking them off and on the road.