San Francisco to Lake Tahoe

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Some snow on the way to TahoeMeta: Hyperlapse of a thirteen hour drive to Lake Tahoe from San Francisco (Rivian Drive Cam)

Hyperlapse from San Francisco to Lake Tahoe:

I-80, SR 49, SR20, I-80 some more, SR 267 to Kings Beach.

This didn't look like a terrible idea the morning of December 26 (Boxing Day), the weather forecast was good. Google Maps predicted a little under four hours. Then it started to snow. And then there were many crashes, I-80 shut in both directions and the resulting jam took over six hours to clear.

Most of the hyperlapse runs at a 80-130x speedup. The jam portion is over 1000x.

In case you are insane here is the full drive, minus charging and food stops:

Shot on Rivian Drive Cam, post-processed as per this post, edited in DaVinci Resolve Studio, music hallucinated by Eleven Labs.

Robert Ellison's blog, I Thought He Came With You, on the Fediverse via fed.brid.gy. Photography, time lapse, programming, politics, hikes and more.

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