<VV> Grades

[ScottyGrover at aol.com]

Hank, if you think I-17 is rough, you should have driven the old US89-A and  
State highways that were there before I-17 was finished.  Not too bad up  the 
Verde Valley to Cottonwood, but then going up through Sedona (Beautiful  
Country!!) and then up Oak Creek Canyon. When you reach the end of the Canyon,  you 
then go up a road known as Birthday Cake Mountain due to the striping of the  
switchbacks (over 2000' rise in less than 5 miles.) then fairly level roads  
through the Ponderosa pine country to Flagstaff. Wish I could have made it to  
the Convention in 2002.