<VV> Grades

[kaczmarek at charter.net]

You might also try the climb from Phoenix to Flagstaff, I believe it's I-17. Signs at the beginning of the climb to turn off your A/C---If you don't pay attention, you could be on the side of the road with a overheat.

When I got to the rental counter in Phoenix, I had reserved a Kia Rio---smallest and cheapest. When they asked me where I was going and I told them Flagstaff, they made me take a Mitsubishi Lancer instead. Said the Rio's would never make it. 

Hank
> 
> From: Padgett <pp2 at 6007.us>
> Date: 2005/08/16 Tue PM 12:09:26 EST
> To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
> Subject: <VV> Grades
> 
> 
> >The Rockies are so steep that the roads have switchbacks, which lessen the 
> >grade. Back here in Ohio and probably where Dale is talking about in 
> >Michigan, the roads go straight up the hill, without switchbacks, meaning 
> >a steeper grade.
> 
> Any place you cross a mountain range there are going to be steep grades. 
> Typically 6-7% is the most you will see on an Interstate (think there is a 
> design limit). What you need is a long, sustained grade and the hardest I 
> know of is the climb out of Needles headed East on I-40: long, hot, and 
> brutal on a car.
> 
> That said there are long steep grades many places other than the Rockies, 
> some are even used for hill climbs (e.g. Mt.Washington in NH.) or famed in 
> song (Monteagle pass in Tennessee).
> 
> >  Padgett
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