I have no idea if this will be of interest to anyone but using a webcam taped to the dashboard I filmed this (link below) of the run down into Malaga from Casabermeja on the A45, a road known locally as the “Ski Slope”.
The road is the A45 heading south to the Mediterranean coast road A7, its about 23Km an mostly downhill with some pretty steep bends, tunnels and wonderful scenery. The hill varies in steepness but theres a good deal of 5% gradient - this on a fully freighted Scania 460 requires 9 - 10th gear and a good deal of retarder and some exhaust brake too. The road speed varies between 70 and 80Kmh - and no im not riding the nearside white line its just the camera - honest!!
The film is 52Mb but should buffer and run very quickly on a 1Mb ADSL connection, its in .wmv format and should autoplay in Windows Media Player.
nice one mate , i use that road regularly , there is some fantastic scenery . have stopped in that services before . normally see a bloke wandering about with a herd of goats on the hillside . coming back that way even with 2 or 3 cars on i end up really crawling up parts of it .
Now I know that this sort of stuff is of interest I will invest in a better quality webcam - the one I used was a freebie and so the lens isnt up to much. I might even attempt to add sound or overdub some music. Should give me something to do after the housework on sunday mornings in France!
So thats what it looks like in daylight!!! I went over it on my way from Clermont Ferrand to Barcelona the other week - unfortunately it was 6 in the morning so pitch dark. The bridge still looked impressive though as the columns are lit with red marker lights, and the suspension pylons with white flood lights. As you descend down the mountain after the peage it looked surreal in the mist.
I wouldnt fancy using that road in the winter or fully freighted - the amount of steep hills is uncountable and the majority of it from Clermont Ferrand to just outside Beziers is well over 700 metres and runs up to over a 1000 metres.
good video harry . there is some amazing scenery through there .
i also seem to remember something about wolves !!! isnt there a place where wolves live in the wild or something , or am i thinking of something completly different
