From
the restaurant to the top it is 40.6 miles. This
ride divides easily into two 20 mile sections. The first, from
the start to Sugarlands Visitors Center, has an average gradient of
vertually zero. Although you are going up for the first 16 miles
ever so slowly you lose virtually all of it in three
miles. The final 20.6 miles is the real climb. This
section:
- climbs 4916 feet
-
has an average gradient of 4.5%
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Tour de France equivalent is the Col du Galibier [21m
at 4.7%]
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