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Mangrove and Biscayne National Park island paddle

Lost in the wilderness

Briar Hill is the Lower Peninsula's highest peak (1706 ft) and Michigan's most prominent peak (1000 ft+ from the river). By bike it’s just over 850 ft from bottom to top with a grade mellow enough to avoid categorization. However, there are several Cat 4 climbs in the area bordering on cat 3.

The summit trail is cyclocrossy, both the east and west approaches to the summit trail are sandy Jeep roads, take a fat bike. The south access is the best for a gravel bike. If I could rank my favorite climbs (all of them doable on a gravel bike):
1. "Shadow of Briar Hill". Rustic, hard gravel, gets steep towards the end.
2. "Briar Hill (traffic circle to first peak)", mellow at beginning, but gets deceptively steep towards the end.
3. "Briar Hill (south approach to summit trailhead)", a bit mellow early on, but gravel gets looser and grades tip into the 6-8% range a bit later.
4. "to the high country". Nice and long, but too flat for my climbing lusts.

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Lost in the wilderness

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