Quote Originally Posted by mimitabby View Post
That is some ride! I am really impressed. The other difference between Californians and Texans is that Californians can choose to ride in hilly country like this or they can ride the flats all day long. Texans just have flats to ride.. (Is there really a hill in Texas with 1500 feet of climbing??)
A few places but I can probably count the number of rides with quadruple digit climbing on one hand. The Hill Country or Davis Mountains would be the only real places I can think of. In Houston a hill is an overpass.

I would say the California girls would laugh at what we call climbing and call it a rolling ride. I drove some of the roads they ride in the Bay Area, I was in awe.