Tag: climbing
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One last monster and a summary of all eight
On my way to the BBL this morning, I had just enough time to head up one last monster – Vesclub to Vestavia Dr. This is also very close to my house with the start of it less than two miles away. My apologies to the BBL folks as I was running about 5 minutes…
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The Birmingham Monsters, addendum
When I was exploring the Birmingham Monsters on Wednesday, I knew that I didn’t really have time to go out and hit up my favorite monster in Birmingham – Double Oak Way. So today the opportunity came up to ride out that way and report on the stats of three more monsters and one more…
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The Birmingham Monsters (aka 20 percenters)
Jacob Tubbs sent me a link yesterday to a climb near Trento, Italy called the Scanuppia – Malga Palazzo which averages 17% for nearly 5 miles with maximum pitches of close to 45%. Yesterday, I went out to find the steepest climbs in Birmingham for comparison purposes. I think we will call it the Scanuppia…
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Climbing galore and red-tailed hawks
Today was awesome. I’m going to try to convey some of the ride highlights, but I think this post is going to be kinda long. First, as I was climbing up on top of Double Oak Mountain, a red-tailed hawk swooped down from a tree beside me and flew in front of me for a…
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Gatlinburg Climbing and Crashing
Me at the top of the Clingman’s Dome tower, Gatlinburg valley in the background Two days, 75 miles, one high speed crash, and over 12,000 feet of climbing! Read all about it below… Day 1 – Cherokee Orchard Climb and Gatlinburg Bypass Loop I just posted a few days ago about the awesome Double Oak…
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The Double Oak Way 1500 (aka fun in the off-season)
The Double Oak Way 1500ft climb (medium version)Huge version (5.9MB) 3D map of the complete Double Oak Way 1500ft climb The Double Oak Way climb has been a favorite of mine since I first rode it a couple years ago after somebody at Tuesday Worlds mentioned that they had rode their motorcycle up it the…