Satellite view of?

frenchfighter

Would put in climb thread but the search isn't working.

specialgueststar

sTELVIO

above_the_cows

North side.

takethehighroad

Got it, darn you SGS. I like this game, though

bompington

OK then:
- could also be one for the "hardest climbs" thread, and certainly one for a "fantasy climbs" thread:


Anyone for a 6% ascent.... for 400km?

salsiccia1

Olympus Mons

mrpowly

Only a third of the gravity though, easy.

lostboysaint

The surface is probably better than most of the roads around here as well.

Lanterne_Rogue

mrpowly wrote:

Only a third of the gravity though, easy.

Yeah, and the air's also thinner, which is good for the aero but a pain for the not-being-dead thing. Plus I'm willing to bet that it'll play merry hell with your biopassport levels...

(although in all honesty, if anyone tries to get off their apparent doping by claiming 'it's because I'm a part-time astronaut' I'd be tempted to let them get away with it for sheer chutzpah)

specialgueststar

TakeTheHighRoad wrote:

Got it, darn you SGS. I like this game, though

Walked all the way down after that stage 2012 - that was that weird time when a rider out of Vaconsoleil after the stag finish said to a helper 'I can't see at all' and she said 'oh OK I'll see if I can get some sugar from the cafe or somewhere' as if it was a common occurrence ?? :shock:

saw De Gendt at the check in queue at Bergamo on the Monday - don't think I could have stood up - you could almost see through him

FJS

ellerslierd

FJS wrote:

Cauberg?

FJS

That's it

The_Boy

SpecialGuestStar wrote:

TakeTheHighRoad wrote:

Got it, darn you SGS. I like this game, though

Walked all the way down after that stage 2012 - that was that weird time when a rider out of Vaconsoleil after the stag finish said to a helper 'I can't see at all' and she said 'oh OK I'll see if I can get some sugar from the cafe or somewhere' as if it was a common occurrence ?? :shock:

saw De Gendt at the check in queue at Bergamo on the Monday - don't think I could have stood up - you could almost see through him

Diabetic?

ellerslierd

Not the best image, but try this.

bompington

Cheesy, but gorgeous

ellerslierd

very much so

napoleond

Red Leicester Valley?

redbicycle

FJS

redbicycle wrote:

Hmm, it's not Etna or Vesuvius, not Teide or Las Palmas... That massive volcano on Hawaii has a road on it doesn't it? Not sure what it's called

mr_goo

Mauna Kea?

bompington

The clue's in the filename, a bit like the one I posted because I couldn't be bothered spending any time at all hiding it.

Seriously though, I am the very antithesis of a climbing snake, but there is a strange attraction in the idea of really, really big climbs: and Mauna Kea is, by any reasonable standards, the biggest. One day maybe...

yorkshireraw

once you're north of 3000m the altitude and attendant lower O2 would make it somewhat challenging I'd guess? And that's only 3/4 of the way up!

lostboysaint

A few of my friends have done the Haleakala climb on Maui which isn't quite as extreme but still tops out over 3000m and they've suffered badly. Never stops them doing it again when they go back.