{"id":161710,"date":"2021-09-03T09:30:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T16:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=161710"},"modified":"2021-09-03T09:30:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T16:30:03","slug":"cycling-up-the-san-francisco-bay-areas-toughest-trickiest-climb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=161710","title":{"rendered":"Cycling up the San Francisco Bay Area&#8217;s Toughest, Trickiest climb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I spoke to the few who&#8217;ve cycled up the Bay Area&#8217;s toughest, trickiest climb &#8211; then tried it myself<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When you\u2019re a kid, even the ordinary can seem larger than life.<\/p>\n<p>Then you grow up and realize your \u201cgiant\u201d uncle was really just a hair over 6 feet, and that Little League park where you once dreamed of clearing the wall is relatively tiny and quaint.<\/p>\n<div id=\"paywall\" class=\"content-wrapper\">\n<p>I\u2019ve long assumed that Berkeley\u2019s Marin Avenue hill, from the Arlington Circle at the bottom to Grizzly Peak Boulevard at the top, was the same. I grew up nearby and have distinct childhood memories of my friends and I encouraging our parents to drive both up and down the seemingly impossibly steep pitches, which our parents\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/outdoors\/article\/I-spoke-to-the-few-who-ve-cycled-up-the-Bay-16431806.php?IPID=SFGate-HP-CP-Spotlight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spoke to the few who&#8217;ve cycled up the Bay Area&#8217;s toughest, trickiest climb &#8211; then tried it myself When you\u2019re a kid, even the ordinary can seem larger than life. Then you grow up and realize your \u201cgiant\u201d uncle was really just a hair over 6 feet, and that Little League park where you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-road-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161711,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161710\/revisions\/161711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}