Bicycle hill climb race et for Wawawai grade

Six and a half miles of naked incline await the brave souls who enter the Wawawai Grade Hill Climb March 7.

Two dozen or more cyclists will start at the bottom of the grade at 12:30 a.m. and race all the way to top of the grade.

“It’s such a hard incline- there’s no switchback at all. It’s pretty steep all the way up,” said Ted Chauvin, organizer of two bike races at Wawawai March 7; Wawawai Landing Time Trial and Wawawai Grade Hill Climb.

Chauvin is a member of KRYKI sports, a bicycling club out of Seattle which is sponsoring the race. The races will be run according to USA Cycling guidelines...