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Incline from Connellsville to Frostburg
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JK on 10/24/2016 2:54:27 PM:
How hard is riding the incline from Connellsville to Frostburg in one day? Looking at a 5-day ride from Pitt to DC next year including these two GAP overnights. THANKS!
 
Anonymous on 10/24/2016 3:49:59 PM:
The elevation change from Connellsville to Deal (the highest point on the gap at around mile 23)is just over 1500 feet over 65 miles. That is an average of about 25 feet elevation change every mile.

That isn't too bad, that is less than the 1.75 percent grade going from Cumberland to Deal.

If you can do 78 miles a day without worrying about the distance you will be fine.

You go down around 500 feet in the last 7 or 8 miles to Frostburg.
 
John Pescatore from Ashton, MD on 10/28/2016 1:13:41 PM:
In August, I did Confluence to Cumberland in an easy 62 mile day. You would be adding 28 easy miles from Connelsville to Confluence and subtracting 16 really, really easy downhill miles from Frostburg to Cumberland - very doable.
 
Rick from Grafton va on 10/28/2016 3:12:23 PM:
My wife and I have biked from Ohiopyle to Cumberland 75 miles in appx. 7 hours including lunch in Connelsville. Wasn't difficult at all. Had a bit of rain the last 8 miles or so. It was mid Oct. so we finished just about dark. I was 59 at the time she was 64 but we bike a lot.
 
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