Climb to the Clouds 2011

[Jim Garfield]

Jim/ Curt,
Makes me wish I drove a little farther North on Saturday! Which road is that? Did we drive it on the rally?
Luke

Luke,
No, this is the toll road to the top of MW. On the other side of the mountain from the MW Hotel, we drove by it on Saturday going down to Hurricane Mountain.

[Gytis Kupinas]

Thanks for heads up Curt.

Had a great time from beggining to the moment I rolled into my driveway on sunday night.

Nothing beats time with all of you knuckelheads

[Macroni]

Nothing beats time with all of you knuckelheads

Man ain't that the truth.........

[Macroni]

Luke,
No, this is the toll road to the top of MW. On the other side of the mountain from the MW Hotel, we drove by it on Saturday going down to Hurricane Mountain.

Next year???????

[fryardds]

The Mt. Washington Auto Road is the most extreme road I've ever been on, including those in the Rockies and California. How one can race on it, is beyond me.

Words really don't describe this road. It is totally relentless in pitch. The average grade is 12-13% with many sections much steeper (at the very top it is almost 20%!). There is no place that is close to flat. Coming around some of the hairpin turns all you see is pavement directly in front of you and there are no breaks after these monsterous turns.

I raced this road on my bicycle last summer, which was actually one of the coolest events I have ever done, but I can't even imagine racing this in a car. Those drop-offs above the treeline are absolutely terrifying. Bravo to these guys.

[Macroni]

I raced this road on my bicycle last summer

Stud.......

[ts rennsport]

Curt, great report and photos as always. You da man for the epic drives, awesome urq support. I wanted to be there but, was in SoCal instead. I made the best of staying at Mom's and dragged the wife down for a visit to San Diego to Autobahn meet Tony and ogle over seats.

[Reza]

Curt you are sick! and that's why we all love you and your Quattro posts.

[Jim Garfield]

Luke, it was on the list of optional drives to do this year, but they pretty tightly regulate the speed as cars are going up and down at the same time. It would be fun just to go to the top though.

Brian, riding a bike up MW is incredible to me. I have climbed it a couple times, but it would be unrelenting on a bike. How do you think it compares to some of the unclassified climbs in the TDF? Heidi has done the race to the top twice on a bike too, I would say she qualifies as a stud too!

[Macroni]

Heidi has done the race to the top twice on a bike too, I would say she qualifies as a stud too!

No doubt....... Ask Gytis or Monde........... They are unabashed fans!