The Death Ride is a very well supported and challenging ride in the Northern Sierra Nevada Mountains approximately 30 miles southeast of South Lake Tahoe.
Length: 123.8 miles
Elevation Gain: 15,740'
This is not a race and riders/climbers may climb as many or as few passes as they wish. The event is grueling, but the support exceptional and with 3,500 riders spread out over the course (many leaving before dawn), you are always around or near someone during the ride.
The slideshow above, and links below, include the Climb Page for each of the 5 Death Ride climbs - we have provided detail for each of the 5 climbs and also charted courses for 10 variations of the ride on our Death Ride Climb Page also accessed above and linked below. The 10 routes give you the option of 2, 3, 4 or The Whole Shebang, together with the detail and statistics for each segment. Select "Routes in Area" from the climb card above or button below to see the routes for all 5 climbs on one map.
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Death Ride, Markleeville
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PJAMM 2015 - Carson Pass - 5 for 5 - YEAH!
The Death Ride is an extremely challenging yet fun event. It is extremely well organized and in our 3 times participating have never had any form of bad experience - it’s all good . . . well, except for 127 miles and 15,000’ of climbing in one day - OUCH!
This is the hardest climb of them all and a Top 100 US bike climb. It is a grueling 9.5 miles at 6.7% average grade. You will be ascending in the early morning so the temperatures, which can be stifling in the afternoon in the summer, will be mild and manageable.
First, there is the 10 mile grinder from the bottom of Ebbetts Pass East, past Markleeville, past Turtle Rock to the Woodfords Rest Stop (our favorite - although they are truly all great). Then the brutal grinder begins. Carson Pass is the longest (14.7 miles) and least scenic of the 5 Death Ride climbs, although it is only 3.7%. However, that 3.7% seems more like 7 to 8 because of fatigue and the wind. This is also the only climb of the 5 that has highway traffic on it (Monitor and Ebbetts are actually closed to vehicular traffic during the Death Ride which is a very nice feature).