[MouseWife]

If you are riding from the cabins that are being rented up in Yosemite, I forget what it is called, probably really damn good brakes!

But, riding in the valley, I think the first year I had a regular bike with coaster brakes and no gears! There are a few slight grades, nothing too bad, really. Unless you want to ride to Mirror Lake. But, if you can get your bike all of the way to the point where you can't ride any more, it is a fun as hell ride back down!!! {meaning, that is a hard hill to do...even with gears!}