I have business out in Monterey this weekend and that along with the surprise clearing of the rain today was cause for some "scenic detours" on G16 and G20. I also managed to snag a crap load of area shields while I was out and about today. I figure since a lot of Pacific Southwest Board members have some connection to the area I'll just post the pictures tonight before digging into maps and research stuff on Monday when I'm home.
SO!....with that in mind I actually had to get to Monterey County first. 198 was seemed to fit the bill over 46 since it was the weekend.
First up is the saga of the bridge construction over the California Aquaduct just east of CA 269:
Apparently the one-lane traffic light is going to be present on the aquaduct until July this year. Just to the west there was another closure of CA 269 due to flooding...and to be perfectly honest I have no idea if it ever reopened from when it first flooded. There was a signed detour west of CA 269 almost all the way to Harris Ranch:
Like I said in the first paragraph, the weather was supposed to be crappy today in the forecast early in the week. Apparently there was nothing doing up in the Diablos since the clouds were apparently high from CA 198 looking south towards Coalinga. There was a warning on the Quick Map today about a large rock fall westbound on 198, but I never encountered it.
Near Priest Valley I did encounter a Caltrans Truck scraping mud off the westbound lane with a plow. The weather was obviously very clear up near the high point in the Diablos which bode well for G16:
And I would say this view of the San Andreas Fault/Peach Tree Valley, the Gabilan Range, and the Santa Lucias off in the distance clinched G16 for me over CA 68:
The standard junction pics with CA 25, CA 198 "end," and of course the northbound turn on to US 101. I missed the G14 Shield on 101 since I wasn't expecting it:
I cut up the El Camino Real/US 101 Business to G16 in Greenfield which is on Elm Avenue and turned west: