tri_yoda wrote:
Staz wrote:
I could name at least 10 European climbs that are the same length or longer and just as steep if not more.
Then please name them, because I think you are badly misinformed if you think there are any (much less 10) climbs in Europe that average 12% grade for longer than 7.6 miles.
I don't think any of the major tours have ever done a single climb as hard as Mt. Washington
http://www.theclymb.com/...ngs-toughest-climbs/ None of these climbs are harder than Mt. Washington, it looks like two of them are comparable (~12% for about 4000' of gain)
Agreed. I remember the issue of Bicycling Magazine where they compared the climbs. I might even have it laying around somewhere. It was from the August issue I believe because I was up in NH for Timberman when I read it and it made me want to enter the Mt. Washington race. There were very few European climbs at that gradient that were that long.
I'll throw another Whiteface mention out there. I love doing that climb and in terms of distance/gradient it is almost identical to Alp d'Huez, which is pretty cool.
I've never climbed it, but I've heard only great things about Mt. Lemmon in Arizona.
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