Originally Posted by
Seattle Forrest
Same here; I can do more climbing within the city limits than crossing the Cascade Range. The roads in the mountains are graded more smoothly; they top out around 8 %, and the steepest paved road in Seattle is 26 %. But the glaciated mountains are a hell of a lot more fun to ride in.
Whoever built the roads in Seattle must have just been trying to out-do San Francisco. They succeeded. Man, sidewalks with tread bars, never seen that till I took the kid to college there and he took me on a walk over in Queen Anne....