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National News: Wicked weather snuffs Mt. Washington Hillclimb
Published: Aug 19, 2007 - 09:26 AM
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Horizontal sleet, rime ice, 87-mph gusts of wind and freezing temperatures forced the cancellation of this year's Mt. Washington Auto Road Bicycle Hillclimb on Saturday.
Six hundred cyclists had come from all over New England and from as far away as the West Coast for the chance to race the 7.6 miles to Mt. Washington's summit in what is called, all too aptly, "the world's toughest hillclimb." Now they'll wait another year to battle the Auto Road's 12 percent average grade.
... VeloNews
Horizontal sleet, rime ice, 87-mph gusts of wind and freezing temperatures forced the cancellation of this year's Mt. Washington Auto Road Bicycle Hillclimb on Saturday.
Six hundred cyclists had come from all over New England and from as far away as the West Coast for the chance to race the 7.6 miles to Mt. Washington's summit in what is called, all too aptly, "the world's toughest hillclimb." Now they'll wait another year to battle the Auto Road's 12 percent average grade.
... VeloNews
