Day two - Giant's Head

Taken from the proper angle tis one is really a no brainer.  When you look at the mountain above Summerland, it looks like the head of a giant.

You be the judge.

We made out way to the north avoiding any unpleasantries to the south - aka killer wind and rain and circumnavigated the entire Giant's Head Mountain.

This is truly an epic climb and we were glad to get it out of the way on the first day.  With climbs of 13% or better this is really one for the books.

In all truthfulness, we were absolutely spent after the first big climbs and we were really having to decide if we had mad e the right decision coming out to cycle.  These were really hard climbs that had out hears beating out side of our bodies fighting for space with our lungs.





The photos do not really capture the climb but let me assure you that each stroke of the pedal was earned time and time again.  To boot the descend was so steep, that you could not build up any real speed with fear of going off the edge and falling into the abyss.

at the top

going down the esses

perched upon the precipice