Yikes! The Death Ride must have been epic ...
... and not necessarily in a good way.
This was posted by a friend on the Nor Cal BikeForums list who rode the DR today:
The other guys can describe it better probably but there was a hail storm up on Carson Pass. On the lower sections thunder kept clapping and in the last 5 miles it started to hail. Then after the last little climb to turn into the parking lot it went skitzo and was pelting everything. Every cyclist soaking wet.
Hail & thunder & pouring rain, oh my! 
Looking forward to maillotpois' report.
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