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Subject:Steep hill: Old Priest Grade
From:Pollard, Matthew
Date:Wed, 17 Mar 1999 08:12:10 -0800

Back to the steep hill thread...

I've been up Sonora Pass. It is steep, but only really steep for a short
amount of time. What hurts up there is the altitude (10K).  But for length
and steepness, Old Priest Grade, a bypass on Highway 120 in California, has
got to top the list. (It is past Don Pedro  and before Big Oak Flat &
Groveland)  I don't have the numbers but it is stout. Does anybody out there
have the numbers on that hill?  BTW, I once did a bike race (Golden Nugget)
that went up that hill. I puked.

ok, no flames please.
Matthew
84 wolfsy (that does not like that hill)