Chat Noir wrote:I get it – you like hills.
Well... I like them, but I'm not a fanatic about it either. Nice, long, flattish, meandering routes are nice too.
Thanks again for all the detail - very helpful! And I get what you mean about the up/down into little fishing villages, etc. I can well imagine that that could get tiresome relatively quickly. I'll probably start with that, and if I start getting annoyed, move more inland to flatter routes, as you mention.
Thanks for the photo. I was actually thinking of things like Lombard Street or some of the hills near Coit Tower in SF – they are ridiculously steep!
The route I posted (from Google Maps/Earth) is actually steeper than Lombard Street, though it's hard to tell from the image. I could get up Lombard Street fully loaded, but it would be a "stand up and walk the pedals" kind of climb. Not something I'd want to happen 10 times per day.
- Tim