Steepest grade you ever pulled or went down.....

Anybody ever go to bush beans? I think its in Knoxville TN. I havent been there for a while. The factory is at the top of a mountain, windy curvy the whole nine yards. I wasnt worried about the grade as much as I was worried about the idiots coming down the mountain, on my side of the line. You come out of there fully loaded. I hate to say who the driver was that was on my side of the road. But YOu can guess.

 

17 percent

 

I can assure you that roads in Quebec, Ontario, or BC, are not the steepest in America.

 

After a long time of reading maps, guessing, asking locals, and who knows what else, I got my hands on a GPS for the first time ever. Well, I'm like a kid with a new toy. THIS is the best thing since the hamburger was invented. THROW AWAY THE ATLAS. We have joined the modern world. Then I went to Drumheller, AB. Drumheller is an interesting place. It lies in the Red Deer river valley and is home to North America's dinosaur industry. I have a lot of customers in the area, so armed with my new GPS, I leave one site, heading for the next, relying only on the GPS. I didn't even look at the map. For the next half hour, I'm piloting a truck along goat trails, across fields and then...

The "road" takes a dive. The GPS tells me I'm not far from Hwy 10. In fact it tells me that I'm terrifyingly close to Hwy 10, and about 1000 feet above it. I don't know what the grade of that road was. All I can tell you is that if things had got a teeny bit more hairy, I would have needed to have broken out clean underwear that morning. Lesson learned. A GPS does NOT replace the oilfield atlas.

If anyone has done a steeper grade that I did that day, they fell off a cliff. Not bragging. I was genuinely frightened, and pee'd off at my own stupidity.

 

Thats a fun road. used to run it all the time. Most of it is 7 or 8, some spots are 10 and 12

 

It's actually in Dandridge, TN, I used to go there 1-2 times a week. That road is not steep at all but it is very curvy and tight no doubt.

 

Now that's the kind of Hillbilly Momma... errr, ROAD I'm talkin' about!

 

Your right billy, Ive gone through all 48, theres much worse than that

 

CA-44 from Shingletown (near Lassen Park) to Redding, CA. That one is steep, widy, and "twolane". If I remember it's got a couple 9 or 10% portions. Haven't been there in about 10 years but made that run
many times.

Probably the worst was 267 coming out of Truckee,CA. towards Tahoe Vista/Crystal Bay, then 431 to 28 to 50 to Carson City, NV. Shouldn't have been there at all but I didn't know better. On that strech I was on the low side of a 13 spd. in 3rd. gear on the jake and holding some brake to keep from over-reving. Live-n-learn I guess.

IMO the most dangerous are the ones that don't look much like a hill, but are 12-18 miles long! Those will getcha in big trouble before a steeper but shorter hill that scares you will.

 

techinally canada is in "America" as in north america.
But i guess most people mean the usa by "america"