Word: runout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...above sea level, Roch Run has a vertical drop of 2,500 ft. in one and three-quarters miles. It begins in the clear above timber line, winds through wooded traverses, over rocky slopes, abandoned mine shafts, ending in a sharp pitch with an abrupt runout at the finish. Six times an old mining road crosses the course. Chief hazard, however, is the "Big Corkscrew"-five great curves down a 34-degree slope through a glade 50 feet wide. Those who take it in tight curves close to the centre line pick up so much speed that they have...
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