"Everesting" In Arlington

[creadinger]

Would it make more sense to tackle the highest mountain per continent successively instead of starting out with Earth’s tallest?

You could do:
Highest Mountain in Australia – Kosciusko: 7310 feet / 2228 meters
Highest Mountain in Antarctica – Vinson Massif: 16,066 feet / 4897 meters
Highest Mountain in Oceania – Puncak Jaya, New Guinea: 16,535 feet / 5040 meters
Highest Mountain in Europe – Elbrus, Russia (Caucasus): 18,510 feet / 5642 meters
Highest Mountain in Africa – Kilimanjaro, Tanzania: 19,340 feet / 5895 meters
Highest Mountain in North America – McKinley (Denali), Alaska: 20,320 feet / 6194 meters
Highest Mountain in South America – Aconcagua, Argentina: 22,834 feet / 6960 meters
Highest Mountain in the World (and Asia) – Everest, Nepal-China: 29,035 feet / 8850 meters

Then for an added challenge (as if Everest wasn’t hard enough!) you could tackle

Tallest mountain on Earth including the sub-areal height – Mauna Loa: 30,085 feet / 9,170 meters
Tallest mountain in the known solar system – Olympus Mons: 69,649 feet / 21,229 meters

BTW – Olympus Mons = 2.4 Everests = ~72 Coxey Browns

[cyclingfool]

@creadinger 91974 wrote:

Tallest mountain in the known solar system – Olympus Mons: 69,649 feet / 21,229 meters

BTW – Olympus Mons = 2.4 Everests = ~72 Coxey Browns

Lower gravity on Mars=cheating!

[hozn]

It is hard to imagine 30 laps of Coxey Brown. I have only ridden it once; I remember it being tough. And IIRC I even had a nice rest first at the bottom changing a flat.

I might join a crazy group do this someday, though.

[Raymo853]

@Steve O 91916 wrote:

Or just do Kill Bill 2.2 times.

Anyone have a link to the discussed Kill Bill segment? There are many segments called that on Strava distributed globally.

[kcb203]

I did 10 repeats of the first 1.2 miles of Mt. Weather 10 days ago. 4813 feet of climbing in 2:07:15 over 24.8 miles. Can’t quite imagine doing this 6 times in a row.

http://www.strava.com/activities/171621609

[mcfarton]

This just sounds like torture to me. But I may be dumb enough to try it. So who is going to start a group ride?

[creadinger]

@kcb203 91986 wrote:

I did 10 repeats of the first 1.2 miles of Mt. Weather 10 days ago. 4813 feet of climbing in 2:07:15 over 24.8 miles. Can’t quite imagine doing this 6 times in a row.

http://www.strava.com/activities/171621609

Yeah, that looks like torture too. My first thought though was, did you bring spare sets of brake pads? That hill is steep, straight, and has a stop sign at the bottom.

[kcb203]

@creadinger 91988 wrote:

Yeah, that looks like torture too. My first thought though was, did you bring spare sets of brake pads? That hill is steep, straight, and has a stop sign at the bottom.

I probably should check the pads. The rim was warm when I put the bike on the car rack. I was training for the Mt. Washington climb, which I’m doing in 11 days. Of course, that’s the same elevation gain over 7.6 miles at 12% grade instead of broken up into 10.5 segments at 8% over 12.4 miles.

This past weekend, I took the mountain bike crankset with a 24t chainring and put it on the road bike, along with a 30t in back. Hopefully, that will be enough for me to get up. I also took off the front derailleur and the rear brake to save weight. On this climb, it’s 40 seconds per pound for someone of my weight and power.

[hozn]

^^ Elite!

That is awesome. Mt Washington is on my bucket list. Along with La Ruta. (I think Mt Washington is a bit more likely.)

[mstone]

I used to do Mount Washington all the time in Baltimore.

[vvill]

@hozn 91990 wrote:

^^ Elite!

That is awesome. Mt Washington is on my bucket list. Along with La Ruta. (I think Mt Washington is a bit more likely.)

I’d like to ride Onion Valley one day too
http://www.outsideonline.com/adventure-travel/north-america/united-states/california/Onion-Valley-Road-California.html

[Greenbelt]

I don’t know about Everest, but we could maybe do a ride of a lesser peak on Research Rd in Greenbelt on a weekend when the road is closed to cars.

Mt Rushmore, maybe.

[creadinger]

@kcb203 91989 wrote:

I probably should check the pads. The rim was warm when I put the bike on the car rack. I was training for the Mt. Washington climb, which I’m doing in 11 days. Of course, that’s the same elevation gain over 7.6 miles at 12% grade instead of broken up into 10.5 segments at 8% over 12.4 miles.

This past weekend, I took the mountain bike crankset with a 24t chainring and put it on the road bike, along with a 30t in back. Hopefully, that will be enough for me to get up. I also took off the front derailleur and the rear brake to save weight. On this climb, it’s 40 seconds per pound for someone of my weight and power.

Wow. That’s awesome! Best of luck! Have you done any other of the BUMPS climbs? I’d like to try Whiteface and Greylock. I’ve done some hiking in the Adirondaks, and it just sounds amazing and fun.
http://www.hillclimbseries.com/

[KayakCyndi]

@vvill 91992 wrote:

I’d like to ride Onion Valley one day too
http://www.outsideonline.com/adventure-travel/north-america/united-states/california/Onion-Valley-Road-California.html

Ah, Onion Valley Road. Brings back memories — of driving it in a car! I grew up in the Owens Valley not too far from where that road is. We’d drive up that road in the summer seeking to escape the desert heat in the mountains. Driving down is totally scary too!

[mwhatley]

+1 to the camp of people dumb enough to think this kind of thing sounds fun.

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