With only two days since the Ulcer Century we ventured out this morning on the tandem. I climb up Squaw Peak often but Ann had not yet been up there so we decided to take the tandem up there. It is a four mile, 1,500 foot climb. Near the summit it gets rather steep so we were down into the lowest gear we have on the tandem, which is a low gear since it has mountain bike gearing on the rear.

Since no one else was up there on this Monday morning, I asked Mr. Photoshop to take this photo of the two of us at the summit.

We don’t have our drag brake installed on the new tandem since it is still on order, so it was quite an effort to descend down. I had to keep the pace a low slower than I go down on my single bike.

We then decided to bike up to South Fork and make that climb.

It was geting very warm by the time we made it up, nearly 100 degrees. It was a good thing that the way back home was mostly downhill. We stopped at Subway to eat and get a big drink. By then we had biked 34 miles and climbed 2,500 feet. It seemed like a lot more climbing with the tandem in the heat.

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Here is the interactive version of the Squaw Peak climb.

Squaw Peak Climb

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