> 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 oncerace
>  did a bike (Golden Nugget) that went up that hill. I puked.

I actually had my brakes melt on that grade once (with my old Golf.)  I was
about halfway down.  I turned on the narrow road, went back up, and down the
alternate way.  Frightening.

A few years later my boyfriend (always in a hurry) wanted to go down the
Grade.  I warned him, but he poo-pooed me.  He made bottom, but with mushy
brakes.  We've never gone down that way since.

Coyote

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