Name Your Hill.

[Jolt]

Not on a commuting or errand route, but on a ride I did this past Sunday and will probably do again: a large part of the ride was on a road called Brigham Hill Road, which has a long climb followed by a long descent (the fun part!). The climb is pretty tough, especially coming back home. I've decided to start calling that road Brutal Hill Road!

[Blueberry]

which hills these are?? As a fellow bull city resident, inquiring minds want to know....

My current 2 nemeses are:

751 from Erwin Rd. up to Kerley road - not that steep, but a b!tch

Couch Mountain Climb on Cornwallis - Double UGH!

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[spokewench]

I like hills so I don't have any I really hate except one! It is a hill on our bike trail system in town. It really is not all that bad, short, but pretty steep. It is just right in the beginning of my commute to work, never warmed up, don't want to ride that hard that early in my ride to work, cold as h*$# in the winter, and don't really like to ride hard on a commute ride - so it is just a pain!

[10ch]

which hills these are?? As a fellow bull city resident, inquiring minds want to know....

Fellow Bull Citizen, eh? Awesome!

"Dead Man's Hill" is in Maple Wood cemetery (go in main entrance off Duke University Rd.), bear left at the circle you come to, go down a hill, take first "road" on left and then take any hill option you see to get out of the cemetery... the one I usually take is the shorter, but steeper one on the far left.

"The Last Hoorah" is off of Mossdale Ave, which is off of University Dr. There are two ways to do it. The hard way is to take Victor on the down hill, which puts you right at the bottom of the climb on Sherbon. The easy way is to go all the way down Mossdale til you get to Sherbon. Bomb down the hill and use that as momentum to climb the other side. The down side is that Victor lets out at the bottom of the hill, so you have to make sure no cars are coming b/c you'll have a lot of speed coming down the hill.

"The Tightrope" is the short stretch of road from turning onto Chapel Hill Street from University Dr. until you reach that church that I'm blanking on the name of... it's where I vote. Anyway, it's before the road widens a bit and before you reach Cornwallis.

"The @#$%^ you ALL turn!" is on University Drive. I have to cross over to turn left onto Mossdale Ave. Crossing over traffic on University isn't bad at all in the mornings, but it's a #$%^ in afternoon/evening.

Are you doing the ride of silence tonight?

[stacie]

Embrace your hills. Hill work here consists of riding back and forth over a bridge. I know every shard of glass, pebble and crack by the end of hill day. s

[tangentgirl]

My *hill* is really just a bunch of headwinds all the way home. I'm headin' west and they're blowin' east, every afternoon. Man, does that make me tired!

[Blueberry]

Are you doing the ride of silence tonight?

Sadly, no. I'm still at work. *&$% law firm....