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Callahan is also famous, at least for motorcyclists, for being the start of a road we call 'The Racetrack'.
The Forks of Salmon is a very remote single lane paved mountain road up and over the Trinity Wilderness over to Highway 96. 'The Racetrack' portion of The Forks of Salmon is the Cecilville Rd portion that runs between our stop here in Callahan back into the mountains for 30 miles to Cecilville. When you ride it, you'll quickly understand why we call it 'The Racetrack'. Nonstop S-curves and zero traffic. Very remote.
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'The Racetrack' has 240 curves in 30 miles - yes, someone actually counted.
The Forks of Salmon is a very remote single lane paved mountain road up and over the Trinity Wilderness over to Highway 96. 'The Racetrack' portion of The Forks of Salmon is the Cecilville Rd portion that runs between our stop here in Callahan back into the mountains for 30 miles to Cecilville. When you ride it, you'll quickly understand why we call it 'The Racetrack'. Nonstop S-curves and zero traffic. Very remote.
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'The Racetrack' has 240 curves in 30 miles - yes, someone actually counted.
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30 Miles of mountain road leads to the tiny mountain community of Cecilville. A couple of people live here - we think. No town, no side roads, just a small bar and lots of gold mining history.
The tiny mountain community of Cecilville still has a magneto crack telephone system (think Andy Griffith Show).
Magneto crank telephone technology dates to the 1920s. With a magneto crank telephone, talking power is supplied by two dry-cell batteries on the customers end. Callers create a signal by turning a hand crank on a telephone. Forks of Salmon and Sawyers Bar had a similar looking list until the mid-1970s. Different combinations of rings, such as long-long, or short-long-short rang respective homes on the 16-party line.
Cecilville was the very last community to be upgraded, as its magneto phone system was still being used into the mid-1980s, and is regarded as the last operational magneto crank telephone system in the United States.
From 1984
Phone book in Cecilville
The tiny mountain community of Cecilville still has a magneto crack telephone system (think Andy Griffith Show).
Magneto crank telephone technology dates to the 1920s. With a magneto crank telephone, talking power is supplied by two dry-cell batteries on the customers end. Callers create a signal by turning a hand crank on a telephone. Forks of Salmon and Sawyers Bar had a similar looking list until the mid-1970s. Different combinations of rings, such as long-long, or short-long-short rang respective homes on the 16-party line.
Cecilville was the very last community to be upgraded, as its magneto phone system was still being used into the mid-1980s, and is regarded as the last operational magneto crank telephone system in the United States.
From 1984
Phone book in Cecilville
You have to be careful with fuel range out here. We're in the middle of nowhere. I've had riders run out of fuel out here more than once after 'forgetting' to fuel up with the group.
After this, if you continue, the road is single lane paved along with a hundred-foot drop off into the canyon. Portions of it we call The Death Road, as several portions resemble the more-famous Bolivian Death Road.
Cecilville has fuel, but it's a wee pricey at $8 a gallon. But it's the only fuel for a 45-mile radius.
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After this, if you continue, the road is single lane paved along with a hundred-foot drop off into the canyon. Portions of it we call The Death Road, as several portions resemble the more-famous Bolivian Death Road.
Cecilville has fuel, but it's a wee pricey at $8 a gallon. But it's the only fuel for a 45-mile radius.
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