Ride Host: Randy Simpson
Cell Phone: 925-980-9304
Name of Ride: Here Comes the Sun - Livermore to Midway Road
Type: Conditioning. No drop with periodic regroupings
When: Sunday, 22 Jan 2023, Rolling at 10:00AM
Starting/ending location: Livermore’s Ernie Rodrigues Softball Field
Start time: Rolling at 10AM
Estimated mileage: 31.6 miles
Elevation gain: 2,161 ft
Ride rating: 4M, Moderately strenuous. Long ~5% climb with a short 10% pitch on Patterson Road.
Ride Details
We will start and end at Livermore’s Ernie Rodrigues Softball Field. From there we will ride east to Greenville and then turn north to Old Altamont Pass Road. From there we will ride east to the California aqueduct at Midway. Midway connects to Patterson Pass and we will ride to Cross Road in Livermore and return to the start via Tesla Road.
All participants must register online on the VSBC website or via the Wild Apricot app. You do not need to be a VSBC member, but we’d appreciate your support and you’ll appreciate the many benefits in being a member.
Not sure if you can make it? Register now and you can unregister before the rolling time by going to the ride calendar event, clicking on “already registered”, and then clicking on “cancel registration”. Or, on the Wild Apricot app go to your event ticket and click “cancel”.
History Nugget
The Old Altamont Road originated as part of the Lincoln Highway named after President Abraham Lincoln. In 1913 the Lincoln Highway Association was created to build the transcontinental roadway; it was completed in 1915. The Lincoln Highway started in Times Square in New York and ended at Lincoln Park in San Francisco. The Lincoln Highway was also referred to as Altamont Pass Road which in addition to the roadway had two railroad rights of way. The Altamont Pass Road was bypassed in c. 1937 with a roadway higher on the summit, today’s HWY580.
Link to the ride ‘turn by turn’ instructions (Ride with GPS)
RidewithGPS Route Map
