Gibraltar Road Damage
By the edhat staff
A resident of Gibraltar Road shared the below photos from the recent storm damage. A section of the road appears to be washed out with a Tesla trapped under some debris.
The Tesla slide is located approximately a quarter mile past the Rattlesnake Canyon trailhead and the washed road is about a mile past the radio tower before reaching the west fork trailhead.
[Editor's Note: Photos of the Tesla submerged in debris in the above photos have been removed at the request of the vehicle's owner]
By Matt
I took some photos of lower/mid Gibraltar on Wednesday morning.
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Jan 12, 2023 08:03 AMAmazing no one was hurt. You may know it's not safe out, but there's no warning when rocks tumble downhill or a road section collapses.
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Jan 11, 2023 08:03 PMMy friends live directly above that. The Tesla owner is their neighbor. Flores Flats is quite a ways above that.
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Jan 11, 2023 10:01 PMDo you know the story? I am a Tesla owner and would be very curious to know if the car was repairable after all the mud! Update if you can please.....thanks!!
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Jan 11, 2023 12:22 PMThe pictures of the Tesla were removed. That was the best part!
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Jan 11, 2023 08:04 AMThank you for these! I can’t get over it. I keep saying “wow” as I look at them.
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Jan 10, 2023 04:51 PMThat road is nothing to mess with in a bad storm. I learned that firsthand a couple years ago. We had a really cold storm rolling through and I'd heard it was snowing in the mountains, so I decided to take my kids up Gibraltar to the snow along Camino Cielo. I was born and raised here and had gone up to Camino Cielo many times over the years as a teen and young adult to play in the snow. We get about a mile and a half up from El Cielito, come around a corner and I see the road ahead abruptly changing from black to white. As we crossed into the white, suddenly heavy snow/slushy hail is coming down extremely hard. I was starting to lose traction after driving in it for less than a half mile and we weren't even up to the Rock yet. I had to turn around in the middle of that narrow road mountain very slowly and carefully so I wouldn't lose traction and slide off the road, all the while hoping a car wasn't coming around one of the blind corners to collide with us. We made it out fine, but it was one of the scariest moments in my life.
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Jan 10, 2023 03:02 PMOh man! That is really bad. I hope it's fixable. That road is one giant, long memory lane!
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Jan 11, 2023 09:15 AMI'm thinking there's no Pier to Peak this year.
And also...folks who live at Flores Flats (which I believe are past that part where the road fell apart) - how do they get out? They can get to ECC, but 154 is closed...
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Jan 11, 2023 08:45 AMYeah this has got to be the worst it has been damaged since it was paved!
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Jan 10, 2023 07:56 PM+1
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Jan 10, 2023 02:14 PMThe Big Sur area slide on Hwy 1 is a giant version of this and yes, with a lot of time and money they can do amazing things. It won’t be fast and it won’t be cheap.
Currently, based on the photos it doesn’t even look sage for a single lane. The bikers and hardcore downhill skaters are probably stoked.
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Jan 10, 2023 02:04 PMHow is this even reparable? Thank you for sharing these astonishing and frightful photos.
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Jan 10, 2023 03:46 PMHighway 1 through big sur deals with this type of problem on a regular basis, and always repairs it. The engineering is amazing.
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Jan 10, 2023 02:03 PMTesla owner now realizes that wasn’t a good time to do Gibraltar.
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Jan 11, 2023 08:10 AMWhat happened to them? Are they OK? Looks like they were caught in the slide.