Cle Elum Valley Road

This very steep climb rises in Washington. Expect 44 to 75 minutes. The hardest 500 metres average 34.3% and start 2.4 km in, so the worst of it lands when you are already committed. Facing southwest, it takes the afternoon heat and melts out early in the year. At 19.0 TEP it is harder than 93% of the climbs in the catalogue. Graded mountain hiking: rougher ground where footing starts to matter.