Sincitycycler

https://www.altrec.com/published/cycl...mbs/page3.html

cryogenic

and of course they're all out west except one. no really good climbs around here, just a whole ton of "humps" and foothills. We don't have any flat land, but we don't have any huge hills either. How lame, eh?

'nother

Cool! I'm one tenth of the way to doing the Top 10 (did Mt. Hamilton in April).

AEsco48

darn, none in florida

theden

Hey, mine is number 3!

Olebiker

Yeah, they totally left out Mount Dora AND Space Mountain.

But, on a serious note, how could they ignore Brasstown Bald?

timmhaan

i wish i was into road cycling when i lived in AZ - two climbs from there made the list. nothing too close to me now.

53-11_alltheway

Mt. Charleston is pretty unusual in that it is a forrested mtn out in the middle of a desolate desert.

Kind of funny to me is has some many trees when everything else doesn't.

DinoShepherd

I've only got two. Baldy and Palomar.

Did a hill-climb TT up Baldy for a race at CSUP. Great hill. One of the most painful experiences of my life.

-Z

Sincitycycler

Ya from da Apple? Maybe Trump can build a mountain in Manhattan to impress and persuade the USOC to bring the games to New York in 2012

MattinNY

1. Mt. Haleakala, Maui, Hawaii
Sea to summit - the ultimate


I did this one! I was on vaction with my wife and we did the sunrise at the top of the volcano and then the ride down
We were really moving on these POS rent-a-bikes that the group leader kept slowing us down on.

SteveE

Mt. Hamilton... "one of the most challenging hillclimbs in California." No way. Mt. Hamilton may be long but it isn't very challenging. Unless they're talking about climbing from the east side.

theden

I've done the ride down on Maui, does that count?

Trekke

Hey, get that LeMond Sarthe yet? I didn't know you were going to be climbing these linds of mountains. I don't think the Sarthe will make those climbs!

P.S. Just pulling your chain.

'nother

C'mon, man, you're killing my buzz!

(I agree though . . . it was not really all that challenging by itself, up the west side . . . the east side would have been much tougher . . . and anyway there are harder climbs elsewhere around this area, just not quite as long!)

redal

Hey my climb is number 7. I have lived ten miles from the base of Mt. Baldy for twenty years. During high school when I started riding and college, I lived ten miles to the east of the base and now I live ten miles to the west of the base. I won the race four times (three times as a junior and once in collegiate) but I never really did the climb that often. The first year I won the race, I rode it quite a few times. Baldy is a good climb, but it is just 12 miles up. There are much better climbs in the area that are longer, though not as steep, but you can make loops out of them. I was reminded how painful the climb is this past winter when I would ride up it after the Montrose ride on Saturdays. I usually go up some of the other climbs in the area but for a few weeks they were closed because of the rains. I rode that climb more times in January and February than I had ridden it in the last ten years combined. Baldy is definitely hard but riding it with four hours in your legs makes it real tough, especially the part called hog's back.
I've also ridden Mt. Hamilton which I thought was a really cool climb. I did the Pro/1-2 race when I was a junior. The part I didn't like was hitting the climb with no warm up. It was an awesome climb and reminded me of the first five miles of Glendora Mountian Road here in Southern California, except that it was like the first five miles of GMR for 18 miles.

Rich22

Anyone done this one?

9. Mt. Washington, New Hampshire
Perhaps the steepest of all

Breathtaking views will surprise you around every bend of the 8-mile path to the top of New England. The average grade of 12% slopes on the mostly paved road, reaching up more than a mile in the sky.

Directions: This eight-mile climb, open to bicycles only on race day each year, starts at the base of the Mt. Washington Auto Road, about 12 miles north of Jackson along State Highway 16. Even though the peak is only 160 miles north of Boston, be prepared for difficult conditions near the top of the northeast's highest and steepest mountain road.

forum*rider

Mine is #8. Palomar.

TheKillerPenguin

Not yet, but after I get my drivers lisence back that's one I have to do.

Rich22

Have you ever driven up the mount washington auto road to the summit?

TheKillerPenguin

Nope, and the first time I plan on going up is going to be on my bike we'll see if I can make it without stopping.

Mr_Super_Socks

this is funny - I posted not too long ago about Lemmon and Graham (went to college in Tucson) and this confirms my longing. I still think the climb up Mt. Humphrey in Flagstaff (which Ive done) is a great one. Go AZ.

theden

Yep, Mt Humphrey is a good one too, just a little on the shorter end. Good workout from town though. Mt Graham is actually better than mount lemmon, it should be way up on the list! ALOT fewer cars, trucks, and other riders, and probably just a tad more elevation gain (~7,500 feet maybe?). That is of course, if you don't mind when the road goes to dirt.

GV27

I'm a Wildcat too. Never did Graham but I always thought Mt. Lemmon was great. The whole "Sky Island" (first time I've heard that term, but it fits) is so freakin' cool. WHat it doesn't say there is that that ride passes through several different ecosystems. Starting in the dessert, it climbs through zones with scrub brush, big-leaf trees, and finally into alpine forrest. So cool.

But I'm a Colorado boy by birth, so my mountain is #2. Bob Cook is tellin' God right now that it shoulda been #1, though!

Mr_Super_Socks

I remember the sky islands thing from an ecology class at UofA - the professor had this map that showed the arid, lowlying regions as if it were an ocean. way cool. One of my favorite stats about AZ is that it contains all but two of the earth's major biomes:
Mountains (High Elevation)
Tundra
Temperate Forest
Desert
Tropical Dry Forest
Cold Climate Forest
Grassland
Savannah

only missing:
Marine/Island
Tropical Rainforest