Losing interest for a while makes it a much harder mountain to climb when you start again.
On Saturday we have a really hard mountain stage followed by a time trial on Sunday.
Keep improving your skills and trying harder mountain climbs.
Like most Southern Californians, we don't consider Baldy a particularly "hard" mountain to summit, though that's probably why it claims a few lives every year or so.
Cathy on form with 110,000 people behind her was a pretty hard mountain to shift.
'It's a hard, violent mountain.
North of Addis Ababa we took a hard, dusty mountain road to the ancient holy city of Lalibela and marvelled at the monolithic cave churches hewn from bare rock.
James Corbett, a hard-core mountain biker from Gaithersburg, Md., was looking for "a place to ride with enough rock" when he heard about Jim Thorpe.
I compare the experience to that of seeking out the harder mountains when I was a novice skier and couldn't afford lessons.
Annapurna (48% fatality rate), K2 (23% fatality rate), Nanga Parbat (18%), Fitz Roy (29%), Denali, even the Matterhorn are harder mountains to summit and have a higher death count.
