Quote Originally Posted by indysteel View Post
I wouldn't discourage you from doing that route just because of the dogs. I don't know of any area, minus the NW side perhaps, where you won't encounter loose dogs. While they're more plentiful in the southern counties, so too are the hills. So if you wanna learn to climb, you kind of have to resign yourself to the dogs. I will say that the dogs we encountered stopped in their tracks when I yelled at them.
Ok, that makes sense. I guess that I have been spoiled! I've been riding solo in Boone County for over 3 months now and have only seen one loose dog, ok, two but it was the same day on the same street, in that time. Gotta find my hill-climbing legs somehow

I found my inclination was to go-fast, not yell. Of course it wasn't a very large dog...