Originally Posted by
mattm
i was going down in that pic, but i usually go up the other way, e.g. up this hairpin. it's something like 20% grade right there!
descending that part is actually scary, since it's a tight turn, and there's a big drop-off on the other side of the rail.
That is one nasty hill. The first time I did it was at the end of a hilly 80 mile training ride in the Cascade RAMROD training series. It seemed like that climb would never end.