Hill Climbing

[KayakCyndi]

Just turn him loose in Barcroft. Repeats up Jay Miller, Tallwod, Whispering Pine … You could stay at the bottom with a stopwatch, beer, and a cowbell.

[dcv]

@KayakCyndi 92553 wrote:

Just turn him loose in Barcroft. Repeats up Jay Miller, Tallwod, Whispering Pine … You could stay at the bottom with a stopwatch, beer, and a cowbell.

Just got asked the same thing from someone else, is there a new strava challenge?
You can go up & down at sugarloaf all day long. 400 ft of climbing each run, but someone un-fun flagged the segment (the climbing segment).

[TwoWheelsDC]

Rt. 601 up to Mt. Weather isn’t a “nice safe trail or path”, but I’d say it’s a nice, safe, barely-used road that is quite lovely and a pretty good challenge. You can either do the Bluemont Loop, or just a quick up and over and back. There’s even a nice parking lot right at the base on the north end.

[KayakCyndi]

@dcv 92555 wrote:

Just got asked the same thing from someone else, is there a new strava challenge?

Actually, yes.

http://www.strava.com/challenges/cts-bucket-list-2014

For you it must be completed on the fixie though to count.

[rcannon100]

Yup to Sugar loaf. Think he thinks he would be bored. I think it is a three mile loop? It’s a good option.

Yup to Mt Weather. That looks positively cruel (sweeeeeeet!). Have you done it?

I really dont want him wandering country roads by himself.

He got off of the GAP trail last week at Frostburg and went up and down the mountain. He hasnt shown up on Strava today so assume he is out visiting Purceville.

[TwoWheelsDC]

@rcannon100 92558 wrote:

Yup to Mt Weather. That looks positively cruel (sweeeeeeet!). Have you done it?

Indeed.

http://www.strava.com/activities/37297227

[DismalScientist]

Vesuvius. Hwy 56 up the back side of the Blue Ridge. Do it the manly way: with full touring gear like all the other folks on the TransAmerica trail.

[TwoWheelsDC]

@KayakCyndi 92557 wrote:

Actually, yes.

http://www.strava.com/challenges/cts-bucket-list-2014

For you it must be completed on the fixie though to count.

Ooooh, this one goes well after school starts full time and I’ll have nothing to do during the day…will probably make a run at it.

[hozn]

Mt Weather + Naked Mtn is really nice. Murderers Row in Frederick area is even better / more climbing.

[rcannon100]

Where’s Murderers Row?

[hozn]

I will send a link from my laptop after I put the kids to bed. I don’t know if it is one specific route, but there are definitely some featured climbs.

[KayakCyndi]

@TwoWheelsDC 92575 wrote:

Ooooh, this one goes well after school starts full time and I’ll have nothing to do during the day…will probably make a run at it.

The fixie comment applies to you too!

[hozn]

@rcannon100 92578 wrote:

Where’s Murderers Row?

There are a few options (you can search for “murdrers row” on http://ridewithgps.com). This one claims to be the classic (looks about right): http://ridewithgps.com/routes/4824190

Basically, you can get 9k feet in 80miles or more/less (Strava says it was 10,200 feet in 81 miles for the ride I did out there). Three are some shorter versions of that route too. I don’t know what the elevation of Mt. Weather is, but riding out there over some rolling hills from Reston and then over Naked Mtn and then backtracking over both again was a long ~135-mile ride but only around 8k feet of climbing. There are some nice long climbs with serious gradients — maybe not as long as Mt. Weather, but steeper. Really beautiful riding out there. I’m gonna take a day off work later in the year just to do that.

[JimF22003]

There’s some good steep stuff between the ridge on Mt Weather and the river. Really steep. You can make a decent loop of it. Something like this (either direction is good):

http://ridewithgps.com/routes/5647568

[Geoff]

Is Mt. Weather paved to the top? Or would I have to be prepared for gravel and/or dirt? (not to be confused with being prepared for Dirt, of course).

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