Death Ride 2008 - post

It's over! I'm done! Unfortunately did not complete the entire ride :(. It was a great ride with beautiful weather, smokeless skies (for a change), and relatively mild temperatures. The day was an early start with us starting our ride at about 5:20ish (the cops wouldn't let those of us without headlights continue...despite the skies already being blue and plenty of light to see outside).

Will have to post an official ride report as soon as I have time, but here's the summary...

Completed 4 of 5 passes
92 miles (approx)
11000' elevation gain (approx)
9 hours actual riding time (approx); same as last year, but with one additional pass
Rain, hail, and lightning from the top of pass 4 back to the car
Temps seemed to be in the mid to upper 80's, but not certain


And Nahoko finished an amazing 3 passes!!! She skipped pass 2, thus not going down that 9 miles to 395 from the top of Monitor (at the advice of myself and Granger) and instead turned around after climbing Monitor 1 and headed for Ebbetts to climb pass 3. She decided to be brave apparently at the top of pass 3 and headed down the backside of Ebbetts to climb back up pass 4 (once you're down there, there's little choice but to climb back up, unless you want to ride on the back of a motorcycle while holding your bicycle). She made it back up to the top and was being rained on all the way to the next rest stop. I'm so impressed :). Way to go dear!!!

Another writeup to come...