The Tour de Georgia introduced Brasstown Bald to pro cycling in 2004, and the peloton has been wincing ever since. “It feels like your arms and head are going to explode,” says Discovery Channel climbing ace Tom Danielson. “Seriously, your arms feel worse than your legs, because you’re working them so hard just to keep moving forward.”
Brasstown Bald
TOWNS COUNTY, GEORGIA
HIGHEST POINT: 4,741 feet VERTICAL GAIN: 2,065 feet LENGTH: 3.1 miles GRADE: 12.6% average, 21% maximum SIMILAR TO: Nothing in France compares. -Outside Magazine
The Pez guy describes climbing the ‘Bald’ here…
Summerson puts Brasstown Bald on his top ten list of steepest climbs over 2 miles long. He describes Brasstown Bald here…
There are two Strava segments, this one where you have to sneak around the barrier to finish the climb, and this one that ends at the parking lot…
Mountain Mapper…
Hurts just watching…
Dunwoody Cycling climb and descent…
*A word of caution… This descent can really bite you, the margin for error is slim, and the price for a mistake is very high… Like Hog Pen, people have died on this descent…
Paper boy on the ‘wall’…
