Tour de Blast
| June 21, 2008 |
Date: June 21, 2008
Fee: $45 per rider. Registration includes T-shirt, food, drink, support, and post-race pasta feed.
Race times
The ride starts and finishes at Toutle Lake High School, located 10 miles east of Interstate 5 on Spirit Lake Memorial Highway. The start line is open from 6:30 to 9:30 a.m. The finish line closes at 4 p.m. An end-of-the-ride pasta feed is from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Three distances:
* 50K (33-mile) round-trip fun ride to the Hoffstadt Bluffs Rest Area/Viewpoint.
* 100K (67-mile) round trip to Coldwater Visitor Center.
* 135K (82-mile) round trip to Johnston Ridge viewpoint.
The Ride
Ride the new road into the Mount St. Helens blast zone! The Spirit Lake Memorial Highway winds its way up the Toutle Valley to the Johnston Ridge Viewpoint. This is an open highway ride. Most of the course is on new highway with wide shoulders and excellent visibility.
RIDE PROFILE:
Mile 0: 500 ft. (Toutle)
Mile 11: 1,000 feet
Mile 24: 3,000 feet
Mile 27: 3,800 feet (Elk Rock summit)
Mile 32.5: 3,000 feet
Mile 34.2: 2,530 feet (Coldwater Creek)
Mile 37.2: 3,000 feet
Mile 41: 4,200 feet (Johnston Ridge)
Elevation gain/difficulty
The elevation gain from the start line at Toutle to Elk Rock (27 miles into the ride, elevation 3,800 feet) is approximately 3,300 feet. From there, the highway descends 1,270 feet over five miles to Coldwater Lake (elevation 2,530 feet). Then riders will begin a nine-mile climb of 1,670 feet to the Johnston Ridge viewpoint and turnaround. A rider going all the way to Johnston Ridge and back to Toutle will climb a total of 6,240 vertical feet over 82 miles (135K) including the climb back up the eastern side of Elk Rock.
Tags: Cycling, mt_st_helens, tour_de_blast
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.
Leave a Reply