Weekend in NH --
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Weekend in NH --
<center><img src="http://www.mountwashington.org/photojournal/hi-res/10/2003_10_04.jpg"></center><p>What can I say .. we go there once or twice and year, but have never been there for the fall color season before for some reason. ASTOUNDING.
The reason I write about this here, is the "auto road" up Mt Washington, the tallest peak in the north eastern US .. 6000+ feet, and a 12% average grade .. I was never more proud of the A8.
Temperature gauge never budged on the way up, and the brakes never needed to pull over onto a turn-out to cool off on the way down. Going up, it felt like I had to hold the car back .. 1st gear the whole way, and just at the base of the real power range at 3Krpm ..
Audi actually sponsors the annual "Audi Mt Washington Race to the Top" thingie .. 8 miles in seven minutes, no guard rails, sheer drops of a thousand feet .. no shoulder .. woo wee!!
I picked up an Audi mountain race event hat left over in the gift shop
The only negative thing I have to say about the whole experience is "Screw you, SUV morons."
Try passing a Ford Expedition coming the other way down a 15 foot wide road with no shoulder, no guard rail, and thousands of feet of air to welcome you over the edge.
The reason I write about this here, is the "auto road" up Mt Washington, the tallest peak in the north eastern US .. 6000+ feet, and a 12% average grade .. I was never more proud of the A8.
Temperature gauge never budged on the way up, and the brakes never needed to pull over onto a turn-out to cool off on the way down. Going up, it felt like I had to hold the car back .. 1st gear the whole way, and just at the base of the real power range at 3Krpm ..
Audi actually sponsors the annual "Audi Mt Washington Race to the Top" thingie .. 8 miles in seven minutes, no guard rails, sheer drops of a thousand feet .. no shoulder .. woo wee!!
I picked up an Audi mountain race event hat left over in the gift shop
The only negative thing I have to say about the whole experience is "Screw you, SUV morons."
Try passing a Ford Expedition coming the other way down a 15 foot wide road with no shoulder, no guard rail, and thousands of feet of air to welcome you over the edge.
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Re: Weekend in NH --
Hope those "obviously dead" hardwood trees in the foreground are dead because of too much water from the "marsh" take over in front of them. If it's not, then it's air pollution killing them. I've seen some Alps pictures with dead tree's such as these caused by air pollution ( the tree huggers say anyway ).
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