Quote Originally Posted by aicabsolut View Post
KathiCville,
It sounds like you found the Wintergreen hill climb road, or at least something very similar. You started around the top of Afton mtn, yes? I avoid elevation gains like that like the plague, but my friends tell me that most of Skyline really isn't that brutal. It's just that the time of year when you'd really want to ride out there, it's littered with all sorts of tourists getting in the way.

Do you do much riding immediately around Charlottesville or do you prefer to ride out in the Blue Ridge? I'm in town all the time (right now, actually), and I can always use some company. I've been a real weather weenie lately though and am getting quite off my training schedule. Still, I like to punish myself on the area's hills as much as I can. Let me know if you ever want company or want some contact info for others to ride with (I know a few people who just get out for 20-30 miles at a fairly casual pace--mostly Tri Club folk). When the weather warms up and sunlight returns, though, I'll be attempting to put in some more serious mileage when I'm in town.
Please let me know when you are coming back to Ch'ville!!! I would love to ride with you - and hook up with Kathi at the same time. I have been off the bike for some time because of surgery & other issues, but have been back on the trainer this week and in a couple weeks hope to be back out on the road - weather permitting.

I think Kathi drove up to the gate a the Skyline Drive at Afton and did not go up Reed's Gap at 18% at the top.... I have been down that road but never up!

Hope to hook up sometime in '08 - let me know when you are coming through - I am 5 miles off Rt. 29 in Madison....