We used to race motorcycles in Griffith Park in Los Angeles. The front side of Griffith Park faces Hollywood and downtown Los Angeles while the “Backside” faces Burbank and the San Fernando Valley.
There is a tight twisty road, Mount Hollywood Drive, that climbs up the Backside and over the mountain from the valley side, then across the spine of the mountain, and on toward the Observatory on the the Hollywood side.
Being in a park, there were no driveways no structures, just road. It was built during the Great Depression aa a make work project without much mechanization so the road follows the lay of the land. That is why it is tight twisty and slow. That is also why it made a good race track - most cage drivers avoided it.
My avatar/logo thingy is a map of the road we raced on. It was made as a lapel pin by another Backside Slider - Greg Duvall a departed friend.
Sometimes we would crash and slide down the road. The city closed the road so we can’t ride there any more but I am still an xbacksideslider
