The video below is put out by a gentlemen involved with a trail organization that has played a role and pushing to get funding for the restoration of the Palisade Rock Wall west of Alpine Tunnel. It is a year old at this point, but he details some of the work being done.
The best parts of the video, though, are the drone shots. There is an epic one of rock scaling above the Rock Wall. You'll see a large boulder being sent down with many crashing results. It gives a good sense of how the avalanche came down in 2016 that broke out the wall (as well as the one that may have come down in 1884 and destroyed Woodstock). In that same shot, as the rock falls down, you get a unique view of the roadbed and Rock Wall from above.
There are additional drone shots of the wall as well as the roadbed that highlight the incredible 19th century engineering of the route.
The good news is that the video is right about most of the work he mentioned. As seen in my previous post, major reconstruction work occurred this summer.
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