Skip to content

Home
About Us
Our Mission
Weather & Air Conditions
CAC Membership

California Alps Cycling

Let’s Kick Some Passes’ Asses!™

Home
About Us
Our Mission
Weather & Air Conditions
CAC Membership

Mark & Chris enjoying a brew at the ATOC.

Leave a comment

Post navigation

← Previous Post

Mark & Chris enjoying a brew at the ATOC.

A toast to you!

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Search for:

Recent Posts

Feeling a Bit Sluggish on the Bike? Perhaps You Need a Plan!
Looking for Balance on the Bike? Think Yin & Yang
Major Taylor – An American Champion You’ve Likely Never Heard Of
Today’s Forecast? Blizzard Conditions With a Chance of Zwift
Riding in Peanut Butter – Gravelly Lessons Learned

Recent Comments

	California Alps Cycl… on Feeling a Bit Sluggish on the…
	rob williams on Feeling a Bit Sluggish on the…
	Feeling a Bit Sluggi… on Climb! the California Alps
	halffastcyclingclub on Looking for Balance on the Bik…
	Riding in Peanut But… on Using Satellite in the Sierra…

Archives

Categories

Like us on Facebook!

Like us on Facebook!

Follow us on Twitter!

Follow us on Instagram!

Photo Gallery

Rockin the dots in Diamond Valley

A kangaroo rate carcass as seen on Sierra Pass Road during a gravel ride.

Fulgas is less virtual, more reality

Yours truly on the “meadow bridge.”

The start line a the 2018 t L’Etape California.

Rest stop at 89 & 395.

From outside the Faire after the snow stopped.

Sunshine hitting the Eastern Sierra – from Hwy 395

Members of MEC, the sign craftsman and members of the community participate on the dedication and unveiling at the North sign.

A somewhat raging (seen it higher) Raymond Meadow Creek.

All smiles now that we have our finisher’s medals, which (GOOD IDEA) also double as bottle openers.

Tiny ice dancer.

About 12 feet of snow still on Monitor (8000′) in May of 2019.

Tired bike on Monitor Pass.

Smiles and a thumbs up from Chris. During our gravel ride near Sunrise Pass Road.

Raymond Meadow Creek rapids up close.

Photo op outside of Diamond Valley. West Fork of the Carson River behind me.

Coming up to the sun – eastern side of Monitor

Seen during my walk around the Galinas Creek area, near the Embassy Suites on McInnis Parkway in San Rafael.

Scott heading up Monitor Pass in the early morning. Deathride 2019

Caples Lake

Rocking the colors at the top of Ebbett’s Pass. Deathride 2019

What the what? This sand is tough to ride in/on. Makes me sweat.

American Lady butterfly on the Cave Rock Trail.

Magical Markleeville Christmas Faire Banner

Riding home from town after a meeting I saw this guy on Hot Springs Road. He went up the embankment and looked back at me as I snapped this photo.

One of the benefits of being the lantern rouge – good photos like this. Shyanne, Kona, Java, Chris and Sam ahead of me in the meadow just to the west of Tamarack Peak.

Wait horns and an udder?

Mt Everest – Image courtesy of wikipedia

A Pussy paw plant just starting to flower. Taken whlie on a hike by the West Carson in Hope Valley.

Ready to rock & roll at the 2019 Deathride Expo.

A thawed our Kinney Reservoir.

Is that tree growing sideways?

Black-eyed Susans

A frozen Kinney Reservoir.

My view of the one of photographer’s shadows from my seat on my bike, in my pain cave.

Another day summiting Ebbetts

The new jersey. New Jersey?

Some windblockability,eh?

The fall colors were rocking. The wind was just a bit of a breeze. The cars had taken a hiatus and it was just a picture perfect day.

Finishing the Medio (70 miles, 3500′ of climbing) on Sept. 8, 2018

Two orange rubber surgical gloves side by side.

Looking towards Mammoth from near Lake Crowley – during the 2018 Mammoth Gran Fondo

Trees

Hermit Valley rest stop. Deathride 2019

Mono Lake Tufa

Six snowflowers in bloom on a little side trail near Sawmill Road. Taken during a hike up to the Thornburg Trail.

Houses and roads in the foreground with the northern part of the Carson Range in the background.

Smiling and ready to race!

Thunderclouds forming over Carson Valley. As seen from Hwy 4. near Raymond Meadow Creek

At the start of the Tollhouse Century (part of the Climb to Kaiser)

Stick/rock person at Ebbett’s Pass

A close-up of the graffiti laden rock called Painted Rock. Off Sierra Pass Road near Carson City, NV.

ATOC riders heading to the finish at the 2019 Tour of CA.

Butterfly on the Genoa Loop Trail

Wind-driven clouds in the CA Alps

Spreading the cycling love at the Magical Markleeville Christmas Faire – December 2018

Wildflowers on Monitor Pass

Taking a break from the running the sand gauntlet. Fun fish tailing and sliding around! Carson Range to the right.

Paintbrush off Hwy 4. Deathride 2019

Everesting Ebbetts starts here

Break time at the cow sign at Hwy 4 and Silver Creek

A toast to you!

The light through the drop

Mark’s shadow hanging loose while on the way up to Raymond Meadow Creek.

How much further? Riding Alpe Du Zwift

Jobs Peak and Jobs Sister, and other parts of the Carson Range, as seen from Sunrise Pass Road near Carson City, NV. Taken during a gravel ride.

Grover Hot Springs moguls (snow on grass bumps).

Misty morning buck – near Petaluma, CA

A screamin’ day fishing

Mom’s boot next to a bear print

I guess I’ll have to ride back then.

Portrait of Mark in front of the Daggett Summit sign after the AACC TT.

Mark on a soggy Ebbett’s Pass morning.

Now that the work is done we can pose for the pic.

Our own local brew

Happy rider on Tollhouse Road

Oh, yeah! What a day! Yours truly heading back to the barn and yup, that’s Lake Tahoe in the background.

Blue taking a break, gloves on the saddle. Hwy. 4 near Silver Mountain City.

Bald eagle on the wing

Kinney Reservoir (near the top of Ebbett’s)

Start and finish here, riders.

A quick rest at Lower Blue Lake

Raymond Meadow Creek

Part of what we do here in Markleeville.

Yup, I am there!

Gopher ‘glyphs left after the snowmelted.

Does this shadow make me look fat?

Butterfly on the rock – Genoa Loop Trail

and ready for pick up by CalTrans

Mark taking a rest during a snowshoe excursion on Mt. Rose.

Jobs Peak as seen from foothill road during Mark’s ride from M’Ville towards Genoa.

A duck on the Heenan Lake Trail

Mark smiling while standing in front of the Luther Pass sign. During his ride on August 2, 2020.

Sunshine through the trees – Heenan Lake Trail

Deathride Resurgence Logo

Relaxing at Burnside Lake after a gravel climb

Adopt-a-Highway crew with the Oct. 2019 haul

Bikes hanging in the bike closet with red lighting from the ceiling and pictures on the wall.

Looking downstream at the East Fork of the Carson from Monitor Junction.

Let’s Kick Some Passes’ Asses!™