Tag: highwood pass
september highwood pass ride
easily the hardest bike ride I’ve ever done. Not the longest, but over 1000m of climbing, with constant headwinds. Awesome. So much fun. And ouch. We started 25km further out1 than our usual Highwood Pass route2, so the ride was about 50km longer than usual. I wound up snapping a spoke and getting a flat less than 3km from the cars. And Anthony got 2 flats within 1km of each other, near the summit. Still, what a fun ride.
Compare with the ride we did less than 3 months ago…
2012 Highwood Pass climb
The second annual climb for our growing group. Not a long ride (only 18km from the west winter gate to the summit), but a hell of a lot of climbing – 629 meters (2063 feet) climbed over those 18km. Awesome.
2012 @ 2200km
paul, kevin and chris at summit
after climbing on the bikes for just over an hour, we reached the summit of the highwood pass – the highest paved road in canada. lots of snow still up there.