Cheaha Mountain, AL

[Scab]

Be advised: The north side of 281, crossing the mountain, near the junction with Hwy 78, is being harvested of trees. In one area where the pulp-wood trucks are leaving/entering the road, they have graveled the side of the road so the trucks can get in and out. They graveled it with BOULDERS! There are signs on both sides of the area, cautioning trucks entering the highway, so I had slowed way down to be careful. Then, just around a curve, BOULDERS all over the frickin' road, both lanes, for a stretch of about 75 feet! Huge BOULDERS, about the size of frickin' BRICKS! All I could do was ease off the throttle, weight the pegs, and ride through. I made it, but DAMN. The little FZ was being pitched all over the damn place.

After coming out the other side, I turned around, went back and spent about 15 minutes trying to sweep the boulders from the roadway with my boots. Of course, whatever put them there, will probably do so again.

If you run Cheaha, BE CAREFUL!!!!!!

Tomorrow, I am planning on returning and speaking with the Forestry Service and see if there is anything they can do about keeping the roadway cleared. (I am told that the Forestry Service is responsible for the road in the National Forest.)

 

[Fencer]

thanks, I was thinking of heading that way today.

 

[Wolfhound]

That'd make for some serious s*it if not seen quick enough . . . .

 

[wfooshee]

That's all you need, Scab, is another damn sticker!

I don't know how you'd fix it, though, except to designate a log crew member to be there and sweep the road after every truck. How safe would that job be? Without the gravel the road's shoulder turns to a boggy quagmire, and with the gravel, the trucks drag it out with them every time they come back onto the road.