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When we have nothing better to do, we sometimes go up to Mt Baldy all the way the ski station. The switch backs on the last leg is steep and it doesn't seem to end. 6400' starting at 600' with about 1 mile of flat or down hill somewhere in between. Haven't done it in a few years. This was part of the Tour of CA's route, about 40 miles.
Then there's Crystal Lake, 25-28 mile sstaright up with no place to rest, about 5700'. This is right near Baldy, then there's Angle Crest to Mt Wilson or beyond. Wilson is 5000', 18 miles if someone want to keep going, there's more and goes up to over 7000'. All are within 20-40 min drive from my house to the base of the hill. Nope, don't miss it at all. We go up once every 3-4 months for a bit of suffering but often we only do half the distance or we rather go up another road over 2000' in 4 mile to the horse packing station. These long drawn climbs takes too much time.
Climbing isn't so much using the super low, bail out gears getting there, Its the speed or keeping the cadence up. That makes me breath like hell. There's always some skinny dude that can just keep going. All I can do is hang on to dear life for 4-5 miles then I snap and its over. Its a rough deal this climbing.
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