A nice little climb

After yesterday's infernal long ride (more about that soon), I needed something less punishing. A few friends and I are interesting in making an assault on Mt. Hamilton Road, which is an old country road in east San Jose climbing up to the iconic Lick Observatory.

Don't worry, I didn't ride to the Observatory! Not today, anyway. But maybe by the end of summer. Today, we just road a nice 10-mile loop that climbs part way up Mt. Hamilton Road. It's really a nice road for cycling: not too much traffic, not too steep, it just climbs for a long, long ways.

I'm having fun experimenting with different mapping methods and used Gmaps Pedometer to draw this: