Need your input

Beaker wrote:

I must have came down Black Mountain coming home from Jacksonville NC a couple of weeks ago on I-40.
Don't remember anything special.
Probably had the cruise set at 65 or 70.
No big deal.

Hope that was a sports car. No one in their right mind would go down that mountain at 70 on cruise even in a car.

Also kind of hard to go DOWN Black Mountain going west to Kansas.
zackyboy3rs It’s hard to give you real specific advice when we have different trucks but. Try to hold a target speed of about 40. I would start in 2nd gear with your rear end. The trick is start slow, it’s easy to speed up. If you feel comfortable going faster, go up a gear.
6% for 5 miles is the same at 2500’ as it is 7500’ going down. Black Mountain is crooked, which is what makes it worse than say Mounteagle.