[thechat] the bridge!

[Joel D Canfield]

> I kinda liked the picture of the new Foresthill bridge 
> looming over the old (Hwy 49S?) Foresthill bridge:
> http://computer-vet.com/weblog/pictures/2005-05-14-auburn4.jpg

yeah, that's the spot I was talking about, where you turn off El Dorado
Street in Auburn (which continues as the tiny winding Old Auburn
Foresthill Road) onto Coloma Road to head over through Cool, Coloma, and
Lotus to Placerville. It's all Highway 49.

right here:

 
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=auburn,+ca&ie=UTF8&ll=3
8.918351,-121.037729&spn=0.01561,0.026951&t=h&z=16&om=1

oh, and if you head up thisaway (Highway 49 N to Grass Valley, then
Highway 20 W to Pleasant Valley Road N for 7 miles) you'll see the
longest single-span covered bridge in Californy:

 
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=17660+Pleasant+Valley+R
d.,+Penn+Valley+ca&sll=38.758728,-121.284902&sspn=0.011763,0.016909&ie=U
TF8&ll=39.292702,-121.194724&spn=0.002919,0.004227&t=h&z=18&om=1