The funny thing with some of these pics I try to take of what is a pretty substantial hill always look a lot less impressive after taking the photo, but this one actually does look like a pretty good hill in the photo.
The weather here is already getting cooler, but it was a nice day yesterday so I took some time off and did a hill day, including this one that somehow I had never done before - I always think that I know nearly every road in my county, at least the ones in my part of the county, but had no idea this hill was there before a few weeks ago, 'hidden' from me on a little-used road. Either that or it spontaneously appeared somehow...
Great hill to climb; 12%+ grade in places, good surface, kinda medium-length and with a surprise near the top in that you might think the grade levels at the curve but it stays steady at max for another distance until the summit where it levels quickly.
Very little traffic, though after I got a little distance past the summit I saw a huge dually tractor hauling ass with a feed trailer pop over the hill behind me, and carefully pass me.
Had the fun of creating a nice hill segment for it on Strava, and within minutes it had populated with others who had ridden it (and within a few minutes I had quickly dropped off the top 10 - apparently everyone else knew about the hill but me...)
A few more hills and then met a few members from our biking group for a group ride.
A bit of a somber ride though, as a couple of our riding friends on this ride are ex-military and we had a bit of a preride discussion about the disturbing three suicides of military members from our local military base that happened over the last three days.
We found out after our ride that one of our friends was hit head-on by a car in the local city, fortunately she was going very slow through the streets and the car had just pulled out from a side street and wacked her head-on, she is banged up, bruised, has some stitches but survived it.