Comparing Typical Elevation Gains

poff · May 14, 2013

Very close to 200ft/mi

JCavilia · May 14, 2013

>10,000 feet in about 60 miles. Yep, that's a whole lotta ups and downs.

rm -rf · May 15, 2013

Doing 200 feet per mile for a whole ride means steep grades and almost no flat roads or easy grades. (Well, a route "could" be moderate climbs and very short, extremely steep downhills!)

For example, here's Cullowhee Mountain Road climb and return to start.
A little over 200 feet per mile (which means over 400 feet per mile on the uphill half of the ride). That's an 8% average grade.

The cycle club's Breakfast Ride has small hills and mostly easy grades at the start and end. The middle is quite flat farmland with some easy rollers. It's 1700 feet in 41 miles, about 42 feet per mile. From mile 15 to mile 35, the lowest evevation point is 800 feet, the highest is 870. But those tiny hills still add up to 600 feet in 20 miles, or 30 feet per mile.

poff · May 15, 2013

rm -rf said:
Doing 200 feet per mile for a whole ride means steep grades and almost no flat roads or easy grades. (Well, a route "could" be moderate climbs and very short, extremely steep downhills!)

For example, here's Cullowhee Mountain Road climb and return to start.
A little over 200 feet per mile (which means over 400 feet per mile on the climb). That's an 8% average grade.

The cycle club's Breakfast Ride has small hills and mostly easy grades at the start and end. The middle is quite flat farmland with some easy rollers. It's 1700 feet in 41 miles, about 42 feet per mile.

Hell yeah! The ride I posted above had plenty of this:

Distance 0.2mi
Avg Grade 19.2%
Elev Difference 174ft
Elev Gain 174ft

NJBiker72 · May 15, 2013

Time crunched in the am.

16.8 miles. 1686.3 feet climbing. About 12% I think at a couple of points.

I am lucky. This just a double loop around the local park on some nice scenic roads. Other than the gravel the county dumped at a downhill turn. :banghead:

bruin11 · May 15, 2013

This ride looks hilly. The end of the user's 4 day run of Skyline Drive and the Blue Ridge Parkway training for RAAM.

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poff · May 15, 2013

This was as close as I could get to 200ft/mi

Clipped_in · May 15, 2013

This is a ride I do almost weekly during the warmer months. The snow has cleared enough to ride this week. I'll be on it tomorrow. We have until Memorial Day until they open the steeper sections to cars & trucks.

nOOky · May 15, 2013

Here you go, 14.64 miles 4,099 feet of elevation gain.

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JasonB176 · May 15, 2013

Clipped_in said:
This is a ride I do almost weekly during the warmer months. The snow has cleared enough to ride this week. I'll be on it tomorrow. We have until Memorial Day until they open the steeper sections to cars & trucks.

That looks like a fun, hilly ride. Are the descents wide open or do they have to be taken slowly?

Clipped_in · May 20, 2013

JasonB176 said:
That looks like a fun, hilly ride. Are the descents wide open or do they have to be taken slowly?

It is a fun ride! The upper section I'm pretty cautious on because it is narrow and winding, but beyond mile ~30 you can open it up and do 35-45mph.

I did do a out and back to the summit from the north side on Thursday and ended up confronting a bull moose standing in the road. I yelled and whistled to no avail and began wondering how I was going to get past. Finally after picking up a rock to toss toward him he got the idea and moved on...

Comparing Typical Elevation Gains

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