This shows the route I took on a Sunday bike ride recently. What I wanted to do (yellow) what I did (red). The hill defeated me, and will do again, but I will win! I have also included the approximate gradiant of the section I did do in the insert box. I have a lot of respect for the tour de France people. (I looked at a map when I got back, and from what I can recall from reading gradients in boy scouts the route does actually go downhill about 200 meters after I stopped. bummer.
The sweet reward for nearly dying on a switchback being watched only by goats is that you get to go down what you have just come up. I clocked 35.8 MPH on one stretch coming back! I did have my helmet on, of course.
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