Bear on a Bike (who comes up with these names for biking blogs?) gives his account riding the challenging course. Between flat tires and broken chain Bear makes it to the end.

“In November 2007 I participated in a moderately crazy bike ride that is held about the middle of November for five or six years now.

It’s called the Tour das Hugel and the point of the whole thing is to create as significant a ride as is done during a mountain stage of one of the grand tours of the cycling world. After all, while Austin may not have the mountains of the tours there ARE IN FACT hills to climb, and some pretty nasty ones at that!

For the 2008 edition the course was basically the same as the 2007, but resulting in a slightly longer course with a slightly higher count of ascending distance.”

link to the full story with pictures at Bear on a Bike