I've been comparing different climbs and wondering what people think the hardest local climb is. Looking at climbs that are mostly trail and minimize service road and gravel path type climbing, so while climbs like Burke and Cypress aren't easy, they're just a slog up a road. Not sure about Bear, haven't ridden there Some climbs can be made a lot longer (harder?) by adding in road. For example on Eagle you can park down by the Tim Horton's on Barnet Hwy and climb up the Coquitlam Crunch to Imby and then hit the road to go up to full pull - probably the longest and highest climb climb that can be done in one shot locally unless a bunch of paved road is included.
We don't know what our limits are, so to start something with the idea of being limited actually ends up limiting us.
Ellen Langer