Originally Posted by
jppe
Great job on doing all that climbing! I was trying to get a feel for the average grades of the climbs. Do you know how much climbing was in the 10 miles up Greylock-I was having trouble deciphering the graph. I know it's probably 3900ft - the elevation at the base.........
BikeWNC included the link to the website I use as my directory for big climbs in my area.
The climb up greylock from the south covers 2290 ft but there is a little added fun due to the little descent about 1/3 of the way up where you loose about 25% of what you just climbed. Here is the plot from the same website - Greylock from the south was the climb:
What made this hard was that you had already ridden 25 miles and climbed to ridges before you hit this one. There was just one short 10 min stop to let some stragglers catch up (note: they did not wait for me on the way back - but I would have felt bad if they had).