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.
