Mt Harison

Yesterday I decided I wanted to ride up Mt Harrison, it is one of my favorite rides near by. We headed out to Albion to drop me off about 4 miles from the start of the climb. The first little bit was fairly flat and I could tell my legs weren't firing on all cylinders. After I started up the legs felt a bit better but not fully to my abilities. I think the altitude is still getting to me a bit.

About 1/3 the way up I was greated by a heard of cows feeding on the side of the road. I'm no fan of cows, mind you are darn right hate cows. They are dumb animals that you never know what they are going to do. This one decided to give me the 100 yard stare and I was really thinking it was going to charge at me. I made it to Pomerelle Mountain Ski Resort, about 60% up the grade or about 7,800ft, and was starting to feel alot better. My legs take a large amount of time to warm up, generally 45 minutes, before they can ride well.


Me about 8,500 ft up starting to feel a bit of cold in the air. The views from up this far are amazing! You can see for miles around, even with the cloud cover. The leafy trees I passed earlier had started to change colors allready for fall, the colors were so bright it was neon.


Funny story about the water bottles. Seems my support crew decided they would wash my bottles out the previous nite in a attempt to get them sparkly clean for the next day. Well, hmm it is wise to wash out bottles fully before drinking from them, all i could taste was soap. I ended up riding up only on that single bottle of 16.9oz of water, not nearly enough.



Allmost to the top only about 1km to the top, the grade gets quite steep at the top.


Last push to the top, ended up out of the saddle in a atempt to really crank it up the final 200 meters.


Felt so good to finally reach the parking lot at the top!


Quick family photo, and then it was off the bottom of the hill. The way down was a quick little jaunt as it was starting to get cold on the top and I wanted to get down to Albion for a great dinner.