To: DuncanWaring; Noumenon
"~70 miles, 7000’, about half of “Markleeville”." Are you referring to the "Death Ride" that was formerly the Tour of the California Alps? My one trip there taught me to stick to crits!
It was cold in Markleeville but you could feel the temp changing near the top of Monitor Pass on the first climb. At the bottom of the Monitor descent it was over 80 in the Nevada desert and people were shedding clothes. Back up Monitor from the east and it was raining, then the cool descent made the wind shirts go back on.
About half way up Ebbetts Pass people were coming down wearing garbage bags cut like ponchos. IT WAS SNOWING! I couldn't even make an attempt at the final climb.
73 posted on
07/01/2017 11:59:22 AM PDT by
Baynative
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To: Baynative
Yeah, that one.
I’m guessing the dotted lines on the chart are for the shorter/”lite” alternate routes for fat old men like me?
74 posted on
07/01/2017 12:13:07 PM PDT by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: Baynative
Are you referring to the "Death Ride" that was formerly the Tour of the California Alps?
76 posted on
07/01/2017 3:06:28 PM PDT by
Noumenon
("Only the dead have seen an end to war.")
To: Baynative
Are you referring to the "Death Ride" that was formerly the Tour of the California Alps? Yep. That's the one. It had everything that made for an epic ride: extremes of altitude and weather, steep leg-melting grades, terrifying descents, unpredictable and inexperienced riders strewn by the wayside and a bar full of brasieres at the finish.
77 posted on
07/01/2017 3:07:31 PM PDT by
Noumenon
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