On the web site you can also find the most recent as well as an archive of Highlanders going back a couple of years, and links to other sites that have information useful to Dooners. Perhaps best of all, this month we have a beautiful Frans Lanting photo of elephant seals posted on the site. Danger at Cave Gulch Empire Grade, the main entryway for many Bonny Doon residents, has had one problem after another. Then, as the authorities took action there, the parking moved northward and created even a greater danger in the Cave Gulch area. The winding road is a challenge.
Many vehicles slow down, some precipitously, as they climb the various grades.
The road accommodates a large amount of traffic, including big trucks carrying wood, dirt, stone, asphalt and gravel, and other wide cargo of various types. In places there is barely enough room to pass the cars coming from the other direction. Add in the many bicyclists, particularly those going up the steep hill, who weave a bit as they climb, and the danger increases dramatically. During the UCSC school week cars park there randomly, often with their wheels on the narrow roadway. The drivers must make dangerous U-turns, with limited visibility, to snare a place or to return to where they came from.