On the Skids in Carbon Canyon #5303

This one just happened within the last half-hour: a vintage (1960s?) Ford one-ton pickup, a hefty sucker, decided to make a U-turn westbound on Carbon Canyon Road heading down from Olinda Village. 

If he'd had a 4-cylinder subcompact and could have made it in one quick maneuver. so be it.  But, with that massive vehicle he had to do a left swing, reverse back toward the hill and then turn back onto the roadway.  I had to slow down on my approach eastbound and, fortunately, no one came barreling down the hill heading to the west.

This is a stretch of road with some gentle curves, no street lights, and it was 9:15 at night.  Brilliant.