Originally Posted by
motorthings
wait...you didn't have a support car for your climb? my wife has promised to tote all of that for me, and a large number of sticky bottles.
good advice, through...i'll make sure to pack it all in the car so it will be there for me at the top. or i can just load up the bike at the top and stay in the toasty car all the way down.
I have had that support, but I've done it enough times that my girlfriend (now wife) wasn't going to make herself available each time I decided to ride up it. It's pretty fun to gather a few friends and all just go assault one of these climbs together.
I've done it a few times with a guy who was getting 5th on it in P/1/2 (finished ahead of Alexi Grewal back in the day). That was frustrating to have him just ride away, but he'd come back down every fifteen minutes or so. Anyway, we would both have packs with clothes and food. We'd come off the top of Mt. Evans quickly to beat the storms, then eat everything in sight down at Echo Lake.