Tuesday, February 26, 2008

The incline

Hmmm... I hear from my Manitou Incline sources that The Independent is calling the city to do a story on the history of the area's favorite masochistic workout, The Incline. A better place to start might be Matt Carpenter's thorough series about the railroad, or even my regular updates and story about it turning 100.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I remember riding the incline when we moved here in 71 and think it is great the owners have not taken stronger action to close it off to the public.

-Teleken

Anonymous said...

Now the issue is going to become "who is going to pay for the repairs before the incline devolves into a slip & slide of muddy erosion?"

Dave Philipps said...

Good question. If the incline was closed today instead of in 1990, I bet the forest service would have required full reclamation by the cog.