It's so ridiculously steep, the last half- mile in particular, that my brother had someone PASS HIM..... walking! There's 2 parking lots (for the tram) where peeps park and the shuttle-bus the rest of the way; some guy was hiking up from there.
Getting passed, on a bike, by someone on foot is something he still laughs about.
Myself, I was ahead of him, hallucinating from being at max HR so long <g>. Time got very... elastic.
