Woo! Sounds like a nice ride. Yes, I would indeed call that quite a hill.

See, sometimes I see posts that say things like "we took the tandem out for a hilly ride, and averaged over 20mph, still not as fast as on my single"... That does indeed sound like quite a nice clip and a good average speed, but I'm not quite sure how to interpret the figure without having a sense of the ride.

cornucopia72, your ~8mph average one-way over the describe route sounds *great* to me... even though it could be summarized as "we did an 8 mile hilly ride at an average of 8mph".

-Greg