Worst mountain

Now that's a load of malarkey if I've ever heard one. If you really believe that, I hope you don't find yourself in the Adirondacks or Catskills...what with their 8-10% grades for 10 miles and whatnot.

 

yup 309 my brain is cramping up on me a lot
i hate getting old

 

Used to ride down that way and cross the Dragon going to camping spots, anyone ever taking that road in a truck is lost or just plain crazy.

 

Come on back into the woods in WV and KY.. I'll show you some 13% grades with lots of turns that will make you rethink that statement.

 

Can still be a little tricky loaded heavy down the west side of it on 64

 

Guess you haven't been down Black Moutain on I-40 near Asheville N.C. Its a long grade and a 4 or 5 % grade. This one taught me to respect any and all grades. To answer the OP any grade one takes too fast and crashes is the worst grade. There is an old say about grades. You can take one slow as many times as you want,but only one too fast.

 

Some people fail to realize that descending from 3000ft to sea level is the same as descending from 7000ft to 4000ft. It doesn't matter at what altitude the mountain is at. The elevation change and the length of said change is what determines grade. For example: 3000ft change over 10 miles equals a 6% grade. Grade = 100 * (Elevation/Distance in feet)

 

Jesscat did you go to TTCN? Back to topic, I like going down any mountain but I hate going up them. The whole state of Virgina sucks I hate going 15mph up those mountains and then you have to use the jake brake on those sharp curves going downward. I like the mountains out west since they look pretty

 

Yep, I use to have a carpet route I use to run in eastern KY. I never seen the likes of them roads. Every store was on top of a mountain and had to drop to 3rd gear on some. You could see your back doors on some of them curves.


You have to get off the interstate to find the real hills.

 

A plateau is nothing but a mountain with the top cut off of it. It still can have steep sides. I live at the base of the Cumberland Plateau. There is Grandview Mtn., Evensville Mtn., Dayton Mtn., Graysville Mtn. around me. All called mountains but part of the Cumberland Plateau.

Monteagle is called Monteagle Mtn.

Now there is the Cumberland Mountains that extend off the north end of the Cumberland Plateau. It's that one you climb on I-75 north of Knoxville going up to KY. They run up the KY/VA line into the Allegheny Mtns. There's some rough country in there.