It's a little over 300 metres from the valley floor to the city proper... the grades probably topped out at about 12% on this route because we took one of the easier ways up.

Almost everyone rode up despite having limited gears and heavier bikes (there were 4 fg bikes on the ride and a few ss bikes)... I was the oldest person on the ride by a fairly wide margin (I turned 44 yesterday) and was riding one of the fixed gear bikes.

That climb was a good workout as I don't have 100% use of my left leg due to some nerve damage but I was feeling pretty good and was spinning a pretty low gearing.