Individually, those climbs are monsters but to stack them like that is insanity. That route is pretty much the original Highlander. I done bits and pieces of this like the Bopple section and they're was enough on their own...

You want to do it, I can tell. :)

There's a local ride called the Evergreen Triple bypass. It's 120 miles, with 10,000 feet of elevation gain. This year you can do the double triple, which means that you can ride it once on Saturday and again on Sunday but in the opposite direction.

For me a long ride is 60 miles with 3,000 feet of elevation.

By the way, have you had a look at this thread?

Wow, just wow. See you're starting at over 7,500 feet. Holy...Crap.

I'm starting to get that road ride itch maybe I need to work out a decent commuter route for the Spring.

Excellent! Glad to see I have lots of mentorship available in the Cellar.

No riding this week, :( sign for the new house on Friday and am packing and cleaning all week as well as clearing to move to the new unit. My wife would have kittens if I took two hours a day to ride in the afternoons. I'll kick back up next week.

It doesn't surprise me that there are people that can do that ride - but I'm amazed at how many people can do it.

griff, how did you make tha graph? I'd like to graph a ride we used to do in VT, 6 gaps: http://www.northeastcycling.com/six_gaps.html

Hmm. I just googled 6 gaps and found a whole website with info and mapes and what not.

Shit, I used to be in shape.
Six Gaps Features:
Approx. 132 miles riding distance
Approx. 11,700 feet of climbing*
Six major climbs ranging in 1300 to over 1900 feet net gain
One moderate 500 foot climb through Granville Gulf
Sustained grades of 20% to 24% on Lincoln Gap
True loop – no backtracking or revisiting earlier points
Can bail-out after 2 or 4 gaps
Nice views from many of the gaps

BTW, we didn't have food stops and we didn't have a pussy peloton, it was usually just two or three of us.

Foot, the web guy did that. I think Joe's site can do it. I'm fooling with veloroutes .org at the moment. I think it has that function as well. Here is my commute from when I rode to work at BU.

http://veloroutes.org/bikemaps/?route=75191

Try it differently...

Okay now I've got it.

Is that 2204 feet going left-to-right? It looks like a lot more going back.

Coming home was more work than going in, I'll have to look at it to see if its inverted or somehow messed up.

edit: I don't see an easy way to map the route backwards. It is a lot more climbing coming home. West Hill in Vestal is a grind as is my hill.

Potential commute in the Spring. Again going in is easy peasey and home is more work. I'll have to check the road conditions.

http://veloroutes.org/bikemaps/?route=75196#

That looks like a great ride to work. I didn't know that area was so mountainous.

Well, hilly anyway... have to add a 0 to be mountainous. :)