Re: Inclinometer
"woody woodrich" <[email protected]>
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And there's the Inclined Plane, and the Mystery Spot! But my Dad would never stop for those places, not even Deer Park! Woody in WDC Andrejs Ozolins <[email protected]> writes: >I love this -- the Magnetic Mountain that pulls your car up the hill. >I've realized in recent years how many special places there were that >people would visit, some even to make vacations out of. Here in New York >State I remember that lots of cars would have signs on their bumpers >(before stickers, they got wired on) from the major tourist attractions >back in the 1950s. The major ones were Niagara Falls (of course), Howe >Caverns, Ausable Chasm, and a few other caves and "petrified >creatures" >and such. In those days people didn't travel thousands of miles >recreationally and these small wonders, within a day's drive on >pre-Interstate highways, got lots of traffic. Among them were the >magnetic hills. I can't remember one in New York State, but I assume >they must be everywhere. The last one I saw was one near Moncton, New >Brunswick, where they still had some billboards urging people to go see >the amazing Magnetic Hill on their way to see the Tidal Bore. Not much >crowding around such things in the era of Disney World. > >Andrejs >Ithaca, NY > > >On 2/13/11 11:22 AM, Jim Foreman wrote: >> I don't know but I have always been able to tell if I was going >up >> hill or down but in this case, I wasn't sure. >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_S64depdVE >> >> Jim > >_______________________________________________ >Touring mailing list >[email protected] >Browse and search the archives: http://search.bikelist.org >Unsubscribe or list settings: >http://www.phred.org/mailman/options/touring >