Originally Posted by
M Rose
... there I would descend to my second night only to wake up and have 5,000’ of elevation gain in 6 miles. ....
Good luck with that. Sounds like some of the trails I backpacked in the rockies when I was a kid in college, but at least they were smart enough to add switch backs to flatten the grade.
The photo I posted with the 13 percent grade, I knew about that hill in my early planning of that trip, long before I got on the airplane and went through customs to get there. It was supposed to be very scenic, but this is what the top looked like:
