Death Ride Passes

[smilingcat]

yeah I vote for Ebetts pass.

So now its Monitor-Monitor-Ebetts-Ebetts-Carson? hmmm Haven't been down the back side.
Monitor just seem just too open for me. Luther is gone... Well it is a very beautiful ride.

No cattle guards!!! The real cattle guards have been replaced with white lines painted across the road.

wondeful memories...
smilingcat

[maillotpois]

Yep, that's been the route/order for at least the last 7 - 8 years. (One of those years they threw in Pacific Grade as a bonus 6th; I think that was 2001.) They haven't done Luther in a while. Did they also do Luther as an out and back? Daggett pass out of South Lake is fun - much like Monitor but a faster descent with wider roads.

You gotta love how cows are just as petrified by LINES painted in the road as they are by grates. I wish people had figured that out a long time ago!!!

[smilingcat]

My memory is bit fading. It used to be monitor front and back then up to ebbets then into town for lunch. Then up carson, back down part way then up Luther and back to turtlerock (the big park). or was it Luther then Carson... and no it didn't have back side.

Daggets... Oh my! they haven't gone that route since '89/'88 or so. Or was it even before then.

Do you still get to sign a poster if you finished all 5 passes? and do they have the wake up call on the morning of ride at the park? I used to camp at the camp ground. I think most of us woke up before the sound of Jimmy Hendrix rendition of national anthem, the sound of train and the rooster crowing.

[maillotpois]

You do get to sign a poster!

Nowadays, they're waking people to "Fanfare for the Common Man" by Aaron Copeland. In the mountains, with the cold morning air and a starry night above it is VERY moving. Worth getting up at 3:00 to drive over from South Lake just to hear that!

[smilingcat]

maybe I should try next year and hope I get lucky with the lottery. Its been like 16 years since I last did that ride. '91?? When I was young, some what cute... Atleast, I'll have ample time to be ready for it.

Fond memories of camping out. The guy I was with pitched the tent over an ant hill. so it was an interesing night I couldn't really blame him cause we got there tad late and the sun was setting so we really couldn't see the ground too well.

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[maillotpois]

You can almost always get a slot if you go the afternoon before and wait in line. You should give it a try. It would be great to meet you. It sounds like we've ridden a lot of the same roads, you just got an earlier start at it than I did.