Quote Originally Posted by Bike Goddess View Post
Wanna harder ride? The Alpine Club (original DR sponsors, now gone) has one a few weeks prior to the DR. Even the best of the riders I know had a tough time on that one. They have some of the same passes and a few more just to add to the pain with a total of 200 miles if you complete all of the passes on the route.
You must mean the Alta Alpina club's Wild Sierra challenge.

Lee & I stayed with Twain (one of Alta Alpina's stalwarts) on DR weekend, and we met one of their past presidents who stopped by the night before the DR. Her BF was one of the Wild Sierra organizers this year.

The TNT gang had their Altitude Camp the same weekend as the Wild Sierra challenge.

Lee and I drove over one of the passes that the Wild Sierra uses, Kingsbury Grade. That was a lovely road and I hope to bike up it eventually if not sooner.