Complex sentence: Baldy Village to the base of the ski lifts is popular and has been used as the finish of the penultimate stage in the 2011 and 2012 Amgen Tour of California.
Split into simpler sentences: Baldy Village to the base of the ski lifts is popular. It has been used as the finish of the penultimate stage of the 2011 and 2012 Amgen Tour of California.