Stuck at the Crest, an Adventure

Just a little story time...

Pierce and I decided to take a drive up Angeles Crest last night, which we do a lot because it's close by. Angeles Crest is this highway that goes through the mountains, and driving through it, especially with the windows down and the music blasting, is such an awesome experience. Pierce and I go a lot, sometimes bringing along other people. But last night it was just us.

It was around 9 at night, and it was pretty cold and foggy, but the fog actually looked really cool up there, with the full moon and the wide open space just under us. We have this one turnout that we always go to, and it's pretty high up the Crest. Last night we decided to go and film some light show videos, but we were really dumb about it. Because for the videos we needed music... like my car radio... which means leaving the battery on... basically we're just idiots.

But okay. I swear it wasn't even on for that long. I've been with people who left their car batteries on for a lot longer than we did, and their cars were fine. We just... have really bad luck I guess.

So anyway we filmed a couple videos and then I turned the radio off and the car and took out the keys etc etc so the battery was definitely OFF for a long time. And we just chilled out there... and it was nice. Going to the Crest during the summer is one thing, but during the winter... whoa. It looked so cool. And it was just really peaceful, even though it was freezing cold.

But anyway at around 10 we decided to go back, and so we got in my car and got ready and stuff. But then, of course, my car doesn't start. It doesn't start multiple times. At first we thought the engine was cold, so we waited a bit and tried to like move the car in neutral towards the highway and away from the edge of the mountain, hoping that would help start the engine, but as we did that my headlights and the lights in the car started to dim and we realized oh fuck it's the battery. We're idiots. We drained the battery.

So immediately we turned the car off cause we figured that if the battery dies we're even more fucked, and tried to call someone to bring up jumper cables. But of course, we're in the mountains, and we have no service. So we were stuck in the mountains in the middle of December at 10 at night in heavy fog, freezing cold, with a car that won't start and no service to call.

We started waving people down on the highway. And we actually met some really nice people! No one could help us though. The big trucks that drove by definitely would have had jumper cables... but they were the assholes that saw us waving and didn't stop. So that was cool -_-.

By that time you couldn't see outside of my car windows because it was so foggy, and we probably would have thought it was cool under different circumstances. But we were both FREEZING. And okay I know it's Southern California and all... and maybe we're just wusses because of that... but whatever we were COLD man. We were just like in my back seat for probably 20 minutes cuddling for warmth thinking like... shit what I are we gonna do...

And then my phone vibrated and lit up, and we thought it was a message but it turned out it was just saying it was low battery. But that gave me an idea, and so we decided to try to send a text even though the calls hadn't worked before. And the message sent! And so we decided to try calling again, and somehow that call actually went through!

So we got a hold of Pierce's brother, and like half an hour later he came up, completely pissed at us, with jumper cables. By this time it was probably around 11:15. When my car started... so relieved. Just so relieved man. But yeah. So that was a thing that happened last night. Never ever leaving my car on just for the radio for that long ever again. I will not be a dumbass twice.