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05-14-07, 03:34 AM
Ok ok, the subject is more in jest than anything else. After hearing everyone talk about this mythic wall up Balcom Caynon, I just had to see it for myself. For the first mile or so I was thinking "I don't know what the big deal deal is, this isn't so bad.". And then I hit the steep part. My garmin showed me 23% at one point, so yeah, it was steep. But it was fun, and the steep part didn't last too long, so on the whole I'd say it was a good climb. Id say about the same difficultly as entering Thousand Oaks through Potrero from Camarillo, maybe a little harder. The steep section is maybe a little steeper but not as long, and the overall climb is much shorter. I'm just going off what it felt like, I have to compare the data between them to see for sure.
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