Thanks for the helpful bike map Rjque; the color coded grades are really helpful. This'll be getting printed up Ledger size/A3 and coming along with me...!

I guess an alternate route along North Point and up Polk looks reasonable, then just walk up the two steep blocks up to the top of Lombard.

For the Broadway tunnel, I was going to head up the side of the tunnel (Route 210) instead of going thru the tunnel itself and onto Hyde, which looked a little flatter?

Darthbimmer: thanks also for the clarification on T3 meeting places...