Waterfall on the Road: Kennon Road to Baguio in the Rain | Part 1

First time driving Kennon Road, and it has been raining since lunch. Part 1 is the bottom of the climb from Rosario, La Union toward Baguio: the Benguet boundary arch, Camp 1 and its red steel bridge, a waterfall pouring straight onto the road, Bridal Veil Falls (hiding behind the rain), and Twin Peaks, about 10 km and 270 m up. Filmed on 1 August 2026, two days before the DPWH closed the road to everyone but residents for Tropical Storm Luis. ⏱ Chapters 0:00 Kennon Road in the rain 0:06 Rosario, La Union – the bottom of the climb 0:42 How Kennon Road got its name (1905) 1:10 What the road cost to build 1:38 Welcome to Benguet – the boundary arch 2:10 Camp 1 and the red steel bridge 2:50 The climb begins 3:19 Why Kennon closes in heavy rain 4:33 What most of Kennon feels like 5:03 A waterfall pouring onto the road 5:38 Bridal Veil Falls (hidden in the rain) 6:18 The cyclists 6:48 Life on the road – houses, kids, an ambulance 7:38 Twin Peaks – 272 m, 10 km done 8:23 Three tips before you drive it 9:03 What's coming in Part 2 🛣 About Kennon Road • Opened 29 January 1905 as Benguet Road: 33.5 km from Rosario (about 160 m) to Baguio (about 1,500 m). • Named after Col. Lyman W. V. Kennon of the US Army Corps of Engineers, who finished the job. • Built in two years for over $2.7 million by thousands of workers from more than 30 countries, many of them Japanese. Hundreds are said to have died building it. • Camps 1 to 8 began as the road builders' camps. They are now barangays of Tuba, Benguet. • It closes automatically in heavy rain because of landslides and rockfall. 🚗 If you're planning the drive • Check the DPWH Cordillera (DPWH-CAR) advisories the morning you leave. Kennon can close with an hour's notice. • Fill up in Rosario. There's nothing reliable until Baguio. • In rain, double whatever time the map gives you. Stay slow, stay on your side, and tap the horn before blind corners. 🎥 Shot on an iPhone on a dash mount, 4K 60 fps. The narration is my own voice, recreated with AI (ElevenLabs). Music: "Ambient" by Starostin. I Don't See the Branches, I See the Leaves by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Thank you for your support: Subscribe to Channel Watch my videos and Hit the LIKE button. Tap the Notification Bell 🔔 to receive all notifications from my channel Share my videos with your friends. Buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/jxffb