Yep! I live in the Camp Springs area right off of Fender road. One of my favorite rides is to combine Washington Trace Road and California Crossroads. Either way you take it - eastbound or westbound - there's a pretty good hill to climb. Westbound you have the Crossroads from Rt. 8 up the ill to Washington Trace, and going eastbound there's a pretty good hill on Washington Trace itself where it winds through some woods just before cresting out on the ridge above the river.

I also ride up the hill on Truesdell from 12-mile Road up to Fender quite a bit.

There are still a couple of whopper grades that I still haven't mastered yet - the big hill on 10-mile road, and the one on Vinyard Lane (used to be Gunkel #3). Are you familiar with them?

If you haven't ridden Rt. 8 from, say, Pendery Park on east towards Mentor, you will find there is almost no traffic - all the motor vehicles (except for motorcycles) are on Rt. 9 (AA-Highway). Some weekends I'll do 15 miles or so just on Rt. 8 and see maybe 1/2-dozed cars at most. I actually encounter more bicycles than motor vehicles. It's a great, safe place to ride.

Haven't had too much problem with dogs, though. There's one that used to chase me at about the halfway point on Truesdell, but he's kind of used to me now. Besides, they usually only chase you to "protect" their territory and aren't really intent in getting a taste! It's just the sport of the chase, I think, and I'm too slow to hold their interest very long.

(Hey! You must be a Unix guy!)