flyingcheesehead
Touchdown! Greaser!
The summit is 5,506', and the grade averages 17%.
It's absolutely ridiculous.
Holy crap! You ain't kiddin'!
I made it to the top, and it took awhile to recover enough to ride back down.
I was very impressed by the guy I saw ride all the way up Loveland Pass last week. Summit: 11,990 feet. (I figure the top 3.5' of the truck made it above 12,000. ) And after he stopped to breathe for a couple of minutes, he put on wind pants and a jacket and turned around. Not much to the descent, as long as you have really good brakes!