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| # Posted 2008-07-16 16:57:56 | |
| PG: | How close does the road get to the actual summit?
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| # Posted 2008-07-16 19:43:45 | |
| jjcote: | My diary from that summer said that we pushed/carried the bikes 1/2 mile that day, implying that it's 1/4 mile from the parking lot. I probably just made that number up, though. The parking lot is at 14130 feet, and the summit is 14264, so there was 134 feet of climb, which is the more important number at that altitude. Looking at Google Earth, it appears that the parking lot is around 100 meters from the summit, but the trail doesn't go straight up the rockpile with a 40% slope, so it's possible that my distance estimate wasn't too far off. I do remember that riding the bike wasn't so bad, but once we got off and tried to walk, we had no strength at all. Even with no luggage (we had left it at the campground at 10500 feet) we could barely lift the bikes, and we had to stop and breathe after every step.
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| # Posted 2008-07-16 20:57:11 | |
| bbrooke: | The fact that there's a road to the top of Mt Evans certainly doesn't mean it was "easy" to get to the top. Yikes! I've only ever driven to the top of that one. |
| # Posted 2008-07-16 22:30:19 | |
| Swampfox: | Shall we assume this photo was staged in some studio in New York City, or perhaps a secret location somewhere in eastern middle Massachusetts, much like the famous "flag raising" shot at Iwo Jima?
It is at least highly suspicious that when you click on the picture itself, a large picture of a very small toaster car appears. |
| # Posted 2008-07-16 23:41:54 | |
| jjcote: | It does? That's weird. The picture of the toaster car (SmartCar) is in that album, but you should have to scroll back to the beginning to see it. When I click on the mountain picture, I get the mountain picture. |
| # Posted 2008-07-17 01:06:54 | |
| Swampfox: | I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact it's a different time zone out here, but we can make that a leading unlikely hypothesis anyway. |
| # Posted 2008-07-17 22:16:18 | |
| Charlie: | The toaster car is at a secret location in CT, for conspiracy theorists. |
| # Posted 2008-07-18 03:59:06 | |
| Swampfox: | This is another fine example of the classic Western observation that the road goes on forever. Of course, now and then there are those rockier stretches... |
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