"1.19 miles and ascends 607', giving it an average grade of 9.67%
Little Tor on steroids, coming just about the time in the ride when you change from a prince to a frog and your bike turns into a pumpkin.
""That which doesn't kill us makes us into dog food."""
Did the 20% plus section(s) show up on anyone's Garmin?
This is one of the region's prettier climbs.
I was checking it out on topozone.com (above link). It seems that the 1.2 miles might include the first .2 forgettable miles that were flat and the last 100-200 yards of downhill to 9W.
The lowest point is listed on the topo map at 167 ft about 0.2 mi southwest of the intersection with 218 & the highest seems to be just above 800 ft, just shy of the intersection with 9W. This puts the average to about 12% (633 ft over 5280 feet)
That feels more in line with the readouts I was getting as we were doing this climb. I saw a lot of 12% - 15%.
I didn't record a 20% reading - I think 18% was as steep as it got for me on Mountain road.
Ron, I felt I was doing the right thing when I left you in Nyack... Now, I'm sure I was.
I checked out the distance using MSN maps & using this tool, it is about 1.3 miles from the 167 ft to the 800 ft point. This makes the net gradeabout 9.2% - 9.5. Forgot to take into account that the topo map is a projection and that a vertical rise of 663 ft or so can up the total traveling distance. Hank's number is probably right.
"Minimal effect -- on a 10%, one mile grade (528 rise in 5280 run) the true horizontal is just 5306 feet.
It just depends upon where you call the start and finish. IMHO, the ""real"" climb is 565 feet over 1.0 miles -- 10.7%."
This climb has personality. The grade keeps changing and the road winds. Statistics can only define it so much.
The irony being that after you do it, you still have to go 4.4 miles north on 9w to get to the same place where, if you had bypassed the climb coming off Storm King, you would have been in a mile and a half.
Has anyone uploaded this ride to Motion Based?
If so can you post or email me the url, i'd like to check it out.
Mathias
Jersey City
