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Originally Posted by giftedwon
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Weed is a smallish town at the foot of Mount Shasta, in northern California. If you head south from Klamath Falls, Oregon, you hit I-5 going through the town of Weed. All jokes aside, it's beautiful country, not far from Mt Lassen National Park. There's a sign near the state border saying "Weed, San Francisco, use US 97 South" which I guess is pretty ironic with the whole Haight & Ashbury thing.
But it's just a little hamlet in the foothills.
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Originally Posted by Learning Newbie
I've done that myself a few times going over 80, east of Sac town going out of Tahoe. I drive an auto, and it's a four speed under the hood, so you have to put it into D3. But then it goes up near 5,000 RPMs. I know technically the engine isn't laboring, just using gravity, but still, it just feels wrong, like I'm doing damage. No?
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You really, really, really don't want to be going that fast coming down out of that pass. Forget about the damage to the car, or whether or not you have air bags. You're talking about going down the steep side, there are a lot of curves up by Donner Pass, and the weather can turn foul without warning.
Last edited by ForrestCroce; 11-29-2007 at 01:31 AM..
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