Big rollers through the North Yorkshire Moors

Pretty green rolling green highland country with lots of sheep, few small towns, and numerous short and seven longer climbs.  It's rolling land, but with short steep drops and climbs for each stream.

Every one of them had segments of at least 15 percent.  The photo is of the "official" gradient of a climb that we had just come up.

As always in Europe, a castle


 Sunset on the North Sea
 Steep

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