Originally Posted by
indyfabz
OP: The color one is the weeping wall. You will be descending on that side of the road. The two B&Ws are from the official full opening day, 1999. Even with all that snow, the road was still clear.
Thanks, great photos.
Originally Posted by
Tourist in MSN
If I am reading your map correctly, you are going east to west. That is the best way to cycle for two reasons:
- only one cycling time zone restriction, that restriction is on the west end of the park and you can hang out at a general store where they sell beer waiting for the time restriction to end.
- less climbing from east to west, see elevation profile from the GPS data from my ride.
Yes, I got a similar elevation from bikeroutetoaster, one of the other reasons for starting from the north. The other is that road closures are less of an issue in canada than on GTTS. Strange.
Originally Posted by
Tourist in MSN
A side note, the day before I went over Going to the Sun Road was biking from Waterton Park to St Mary. The climbs on that day were the toughest during my whole trip. The elevation profile for that day looked like this.
Ouch, but good to know. None of us are great (thin and young) climbers, we just prefer touring in the mountains than anywhere else.