Next time you're out looking for a different sort of ride check out the Mega Missouri River Hills ride that my wife and I recently completed. Climbing every hill (totaling over 1700 feet of climbing) within a short distance of Pierre and covering nearly 50 miles the Mega Missouri River Hills ride certainly ranks right up there with the best climbing rides in South Dakota outside of The Black Hills or Badlands.
Starting at the Oahe Dam Visitor Center drop down on the face of the dam and climb the Stilling Basin Hill (aka Little Ass Kicker, easily an 8% effort), continue on up Billy Goat Jump (aka Gut Check, a sustained 6 percenter), up Emergency Spillway (aka Big Ass Kicker, a bonafide 10 percenter -- even has the highway sign to prove it) and back down 1806 to Highway 14 and up a yet-to-be named 1.5 mile long grunt and back through Ft. Pierre to Highway 83 south and up the approximate 1.5 mile long 350 foot climb that humbles even the best of the River City Riders, down and up 1806 climbing Time Trial (a 5 mile nearly continuous gentle uphill - use the big chain ring) to the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe Buffalo Interpretive Center and back down through the two towns and up Euclid to 1804, eventually topping out on Snake Butte at 1870 feet asl and down to the visitor center.
Congratulations! You've just completed the most grueling 50 miles in the entire Pierre/Ft. Pierre area.
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To reaaly kick ones ass, they need climb Garfield (the truck route Hwy 14 & 83)instead of Euclid, it might add a couple of miles, but it will capitalize the ride. I have yet to make this trip but its on the agenda for this summer.
ReplyDeletecould you print a map of this ride, get to your area fishing several times a year and would like to try it...
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