I've been up and down that grade many times...
I'd much rather go up it...
Scary going down
Bill
-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Lussier <coyote@ANDROMEDIA.COM>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Date: Wednesday, March 17, 1999 10:33 AM
Subject: Re: Steep hill: Old Priest Grade

>> 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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