Ride: 56 - 64 Hilly Flexible
Leader: Sandy Yarrow, 916-802-0898, skybike2@gmail.com
Description: We’re having another Italy Training ride, and everyone is welcome! This very worthy training ride offers great scenery and is challenging enough to help you get in shape. The ride starts from the Blackhawk area and goes up S Gate Rd to the Junction Ranger Station, and continues down the N Gate Rd. By omitting the up and back climb to the Summit of Mt Diablo, it gives us more time to get around Morgan Territory, and get back home earlier. If you want to do the climb you can. Lunch in Clayton at mile 27. Two water bottles recommended. Bathrooms at mile 8.2, and mile 40 in addition to the lunch stop. Optional long route that includes the summit. Meet at the shopping center at the corner of Camino Tassajara and Crow Canyon. Be ready to roll at 0830. Take I-80 to I-680 S to Exit 38 to Sycamore Valley Rd and merge R onto Camino Tassajara. The shopping center will be on your Right. Turn in on A St. or continue around the corner onto Crow Canyon Rd and turn in on the first driveway. There is a Baja Fresh, Starbucks and a McDonalds on the corner. It’s about a 1.5 hour drive from Sacramento
Elevation: Long - 4750 feet Long with Summit - 6470 feet
Ride With GPS: Long - https://ridewithgps.com/routes/37256840
Long with Summit - https://ridewithgps.com/routes/37286897