http://www.rwongphoto.com/blog/avoid-being-a-victim-of-road-rage/ Photography field reports by Richard Wong. Richard's work has been published in magazines, books, advertising, and offers fine art prints of his work. Images may be licensed as rights-managed stock photos by contacting Richard directly at Richard@rwongphoto.com or (626) 422-6151. California stock photography, fine art prints, photo blog: www.rwongphoto.com Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:48:03 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 http://www.rwongphoto.com/blog/avoid-being-a-victim-of-road-rage/comment-page-1/#comment-59777 Los Angeles Skyline Photo With Winter Backdrop : In the Field: Photo Blog by Richard Wong Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:02:12 +0000 http://rwongphoto.com/blog/avoid-being-a-victim-of-road-rage/#comment-59777 [...] I started off yesterday morning with the intention of photographing trees on Mount Baldy covered in deep snow. However despite heading up Mount Baldy Road shortly after sunrise, there was already a line of cars due to the CHP stopping traffic to make everyone put on chains. Judging from the rate at which people were getting through, I estimated that it would take at least an hour and a half to get to the front of the line just for the “privilege” of putting on tire chains. Pain in the a**. The road up to the ski area isn’t that far but I always avoid putting on chains despite having a set in my trunk. The snow level was pretty far down, probably to 2,000 feet I’m guessing but I’ve driven in much worse without chains so I don’t get what the big deal was. In fact, my brother and I went up there to three feet of fresh powder on a Monday morning following a storm two years ago and no chains were required. We were also the only two up on the mountain that morning. I think chains are probably to protect the L.A. weekend crowd from themselves since most have no clue how to drive in the mountains. [...] [...] I started off yesterday morning with the intention of photographing trees on Mount Baldy covered in deep snow. However despite heading up Mount Baldy Road shortly after sunrise, there was already a line of cars due to the CHP stopping traffic to make everyone put on chains. Judging from the rate at which people were getting through, I estimated that it would take at least an hour and a half to get to the front of the line just for the “privilege” of putting on tire chains. Pain in the a**. The road up to the ski area isn’t that far but I always avoid putting on chains despite having a set in my trunk. The snow level was pretty far down, probably to 2,000 feet I’m guessing but I’ve driven in much worse without chains so I don’t get what the big deal was. In fact, my brother and I went up there to three feet of fresh powder on a Monday morning following a storm two years ago and no chains were required. We were also the only two up on the mountain that morning. I think chains are probably to protect the L.A. weekend crowd from themselves since most have no clue how to drive in the mountains. [...]

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