Love biking in the mountains?

Love music?

Didn’t win a slot in this year’s Death Ride- Tour of the California Alps?

Then this is YOUR CHANCE to join 3,500 cyclists on the 2012 Death Ride while supporting the Bear Valley Music Festival!

Alpine County Chamber of Commerce, sponsor of the Tour of the California Alps, has made 25 Death Ride slots available to supporters of the Bear Valley Music Festival.  Be among the first to sign up and commit to raise at least $400 for the Bear Valley Music Festival, and you will be one of the 35 given a start in this year’s event! Your name will be placed on the list of people who can be sponsored.

Ask your friends and family for help pushing you along mentally – you can achieve your goal with five passes and just a few pledges of one penny for every foot of climbing or $1.00 per mile! Sponsor a rider today.

If you already have a Death Ride registration, you can receive all the other benefits by committing to raise $300 for the Bear Valley Music Festival. Join the team here.

What’s the Death Ride?

The Death Ride is one of the premier cycling events in America’s West.  The 2012 ride is on July 14.  This year’s five-pass ride includes 129 miles and 15,000+ feet of climbing through the California Alps. You have the option of riding one, two, three or four climbs over Monitor Pass (8,314′), Ebbetts Pass (8,730′) and Carson Pass (8,573′).  The ride starts in Markleeville, follows roads closed for the event, and provides 10 rest stops with food along the route.  For more information about this once-in-a-lifetime experience, go to www.deathride.com.

What else do I get?

Winners of this outstanding opportunity also will receive many other benefits:

• A cycling jersey custom-made for this event, with beautiful graphics by local artist Karen O’Neill
• The Bear Valley Adventure Company is offering to the team a complimentary comprehensive safety and function check by Tom McCabe, the veteran master mechanic at BVAC.
• Camaraderie building high-altitude training weekend with the team, July 7
• Based at 7000’ in beautiful Bear Valley, California
• Group rides with guides who have conquered all five passes in one day
• Shuttle support so you can tackle one or two passes
• Discounts on accommodations
• Lake, pool and tennis courts
• Great restaurants
• Special recognition with musical fanfare at Hermit Valley during the Death Ride
• Discount tickets to the Bear Valley Music Festival’s events
• Major donor listing in the Music Festival’s 2012 program
• Invitation to the 2012 Music Festival Gala
• Support for the Sierra Nevada’s outstanding music event!

REGISTRATION AND SPONSOR LINKS LOCATED ON THE SIDEBAR! DON’T MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY!