i was thinking about doing some hill work on wednesday night -- giving me ample time to recover for chilly hilly but still remind my body what a hill is.
anyone is invited; we could start whenever after 3 30 pm.
maybe we should go like, capitol hill up pine, queen anne (the easy way) capital hill up harvard and tenth, queen anne hill a little more difficult way, and then i have a long hill home so i'll probably just count the home hill as my last hill.
other good hills are climbing out of golden gardens, freemont ave, getting to freemont from UD on 45th. . meh. we should just meet and hit hills for a few hours.
heidib
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 9:55 am
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OOPS
i mean FHR, not chilly hilly.
the dreaded ben
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 10:33 am
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heidib wrote:
OOPS
i mean FHR, not chilly hilly.
i didn't spend all that time in nam to sit and watch you hippys not call the FHR by it's god given name.
sekai
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 11:28 am
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Interlaken and up to Discovery park from 34th are good ones too.
gsbarnes
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 12:04 pm
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I could show you the seven hillclimbs up to View Ridge from Lake Washington. Good variety in a compact location. There's even more if you want to include routes that climb from west of 40th NE.
Heading across NE/N/NW 65th from Magnuson Park to Crown Hill (you have to detour around Green Lake, but otherwise it's a straight shot) is a pretty good hill workout: View Ridge, University Ridge, Phinney Ridge, Crown Hill. Go up to 85th and down to Golden Gardens, and you can either take the Burke back or do it again in reverse. But 65th is not the greatest street during rush hour.
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margaret
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 12:23 pm
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damn, i wanna go with you heidi, but i've got some other shit to do. if you're still out climbing hills after 9-9:30pm you should give me a call!
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Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 12:30 pm
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sekai wrote:
Interlaken and up to Discovery park from 34th are good ones too.
Justin, are we going to get the uphill sprints series this summer again? That was great fun last year...
lantius
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 12:44 pm
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gsbarnes wrote:
Heading across NE/N/NW 65th from Magnuson Park to Crown Hill (you have to detour around Green Lake, but otherwise it's a straight shot) is a pretty good hill workout: View Ridge, University Ridge, Phinney Ridge, Crown Hill. Go up to 85th and down to Golden Gardens, and you can either take the Burke back or do it again in reverse. But 65th is not the greatest street during rush hour.
we basically did that ride on 85th on thursday, to greenlake. it was fun. and then on sunday after the bike swap we did the other half starting at sand point and going to greenlake.
hills are steep.
sekai
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 1:14 pm
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langston wrote:
sekai wrote:
Interlaken and up to Discovery park from 34th are good ones too.
Justin, are we going to get the uphill sprints series this summer again? That was great fun last year...
they'll be back again this year. I've got some new venues in the pipeline.
gsbarnes
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 1:27 pm
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lantius wrote:
gsbarnes wrote:
Heading across NE/N/NW 65th from Magnuson Park to Crown Hill (you have to detour around Green Lake, but otherwise it's a straight shot) is a pretty good hill workout: View Ridge, University Ridge, Phinney Ridge, Crown Hill. Go up to 85th and down to Golden Gardens, and you can either take the Burke back or do it again in reverse. But 65th is not the greatest street during rush hour.
we basically did that ride on 85th on thursday, to greenlake. it was fun. and then on sunday after the bike swap we did the other half starting at sand point and going to greenlake.
hills are steep.
Yeah, but 85th west of Green Lake is much less steep than 65th. Which is why Mike and I kept the Thursday group on 85th until Phinney Ridge, despite griping from the peanut gallery. Off the Burke-Gilman, east-west in North Seattle doesn't get much flatter than that.
Sand Point to Green Lake has no comparable direct route I know of, unless you want to divert up to 105th or beyond, or down to the Burke-Gilman. 65th is the best choice for a direct route, but not at all easy.
By the way, I forgot about the hill west of the View Ridge PCC. Call it the 35th NE ridge. I climb it almost every day, so it can't be that bad, at least from the east. :-) A mile to the north, it merges with View Ridge in the flats of Wedgwood
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Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 1:37 pm
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Just ride East-West from water to water, anywhere around town trying to take as direct route as possible, like Golden Gardens to Sand point or Seward Park to Lincoln Park
lantius
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joeball wrote:
Just ride East-West from water to water, anywhere around town trying to take as direct route as possible, like Golden Gardens to Sand point or Seward Park to Lincoln Park
the sculpture garden to denny blaine park!
joeball
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 1:56 pm
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lantius wrote:
joeball wrote:
Just ride East-West from water to water, anywhere around town trying to take as direct route as possible, like Golden Gardens to Sand point or Seward Park to Lincoln Park
the sculpture garden to denny blaine park!
Ha, but that's easier cause they took out one of the hills.
Before and After
gsbarnes
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 2:11 pm
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lantius wrote:
joeball wrote:
Just ride East-West from water to water, anywhere around town trying to take as direct route as possible, like Golden Gardens to Sand point or Seward Park to Lincoln Park
the sculpture garden to denny blaine park!
Or, say, Qwest Field to the I-90 Bridge (waffle ride) Probably the easiest E-W route in town, thanks to the tunnel. Without the tunnel, yowch.
Anyway, I picked 65th because it's in Heidi's neck of the woods, and it's also the 2nd easiest such route to describe (Madison St being the easiest).
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gsbarnes
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 2:17 pm
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joeball wrote:
lantius wrote:
the sculpture garden to denny blaine park!
Ha, but that's easier cause they took out one of the hills.
Before and After
In any event, that route still goes through Madison Valley, which is my second choice for a compact place with lots of different hills. Such as, for example, the steepest street in Seattle.
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heidib
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 3:21 pm
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ok, well, i think i'll start this ride at 5 30 from red square.
i'll probably eat before hand, PM me if you are into getting some dinner we can puke up later. hahaha. j/k!
i think the best case scenario for it would be, roll around, find exciting hills and ride up them, and--following .83 code of conduct--get a beer afterwards or something.
badhill
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 1:45 am
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joeball wrote:
lantius wrote:
joeball wrote:
Just ride East-West from water to water, anywhere around town trying to take as direct route as possible, like Golden Gardens to Sand point or Seward Park to Lincoln Park
the sculpture garden to denny blaine park!
Ha, but that's easier cause they took out one of the hills.
It's weird how that area is still all bare and sad, seventy years later.
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gsbarnes wrote:
joeball wrote:
lantius wrote:
the sculpture garden to denny blaine park!
Ha, but that's easier cause they took out one of the hills.
Before and After
In any event, that route still goes through Madison Valley, which is my second choice for a compact place with lots of different hills. Such as, for example, the steepest street in Seattle.
I was just at Regrade Park the other day, the plaque in the ground there says the hill was only 37ft. above the parks location...
??
gsbarnes
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 1:03 pm
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The History Link essay cites what I suspect is the second source, so these are really from the same source (and we can assume the P-I article cribbed from one or the other). Sherwood (the second source) cites a 'park on a mound some 60' high on the east side', which is probably from the original source. The plaque could be at a slightly different location, or, I think more likely, the 60' was a correct measurement, but taken from the point likely to seem most impressive. The slope on Denny (even now) is from West to East, suggesting that a creek ran roughly down Westlake to Lake Union (see this map from a recent thread. So it's likely this mound was not anywhere near 60' high on the west side. During the regrade they likely evened everything out as best they could. The old map does show a definite mound in the western half of the present park, but you'd have to find the original source to find out whether they really cut off 60', turned a 60' mound into a 23' rise with a much gentler slope, or something in-between.
Interesting observation, in any event. I'll have to check it out.
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gsbarnes
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 11:21 am
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wingedc0w wrote:
gsbarnes wrote:
joeball wrote:
lantius wrote:
the sculpture garden to denny blaine park!
Ha, but that's easier cause they took out one of the hills.
Before and After
In any event, that route still goes through Madison Valley, which is my second choice for a compact place with lots of different hills. Such as, for example, the steepest street in Seattle.
I was just at Regrade Park the other day, the plaque in the ground there says the hill was only 37ft. above the parks location...
??
Where is this plaque? I searched Denny Park, and couldn't find it. Which probably just means I was looking in the wrong place.
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