Across the Stillwater NWR to the Stillwater Range The Stillwater National Wildlife Refuge has always been a great gravel riding destination. In some ways I consider it the best in our area based on the quality of the roads, lack of traffic, wildlife viewing and natural and cultural history. When the birds are on the …
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Thanks, Mark for the great suggestion! Photo Joe B November 8-9, 2025 It is awesome that Mark Yakushev (@mark.yakushev) recommended we do this. For a guy from Scotts Valley/Santa Cruz, CA he loves coming out to the desert. Once we had a weekend I put it out on FB Events. It is a medium length …
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There is beauty in the gnarled trunk of a Utah Juniper October 16-20, 2025 I was just getting back from the Great Basin’s Edge and I had this idea for a Sheldon Lap. I was inspired by the trip I took in May with Wildwood Open Lands Foundation. I created the route by starting with …
Getting around the Eureka Dunes to Dedeckera Canyon. February 11-21, 2026 Nothing like a sandstorm to knock out the zippers on your tent. This was Doug’s dilemma going into the Mega Death Tour, a 400+ mile loop of Death Valley starting at Eureka Dunes. We had set aside 2 weeks for this trip in the …
Nearing the top of a 3000' climb in the Bodie Mountains, this is the Great Basin's Edge Doug A October 6-12, 2025 Sometimes you have a grand route in front of you and you just decide to chop it into a shorter grand route. And that is how this trip went. "Good bye, Wyatt!" And …
January 7, 2025 Climbing into the West Humboldt Range with Doug A I credit Jay Petervary with these two mantras of bikepacking. Do the work applies to the big picture as much as the immediate details. There are a million places to cut corners in a trip, a good example is a sloppy tent pitch, …
Continue reading Do the Work, Ride Forward – 2025 in review and looking ahead to 2026
Ely Gravel Roundup 2025 (giving it a year suggests there will be roundups to follow) Square Top Sept. 11-19, 2025 It's kind of a big deal, Adventure Gravel Guides published a gravel guide to Ely/ White Pine County/ Eastern Nevada! I don’t know the full backstory on how this came to be but Kyle Horvath …
Sunrise bike tours August 26-29, 2025 This is the third time Bikepacking Northern Nevada goes to Burning Man. But I still don’t call myself a Burner. Maybe I’m getting closer to being an Earth Guardian. Maybe. Sunset bike tours Although I left the Reno Bike Project a couple of years ago I still enjoy volunteering …
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Waking up on the playa is a special experience, the Perseids Meteor Shower Campout is a great intro to camping on the Black Rock Desert. August 8-10, 2025 This is my 5th Perseids Meteor Shower Campout with Friends of Black Rock - High Rock. This was a special year celebrating 20 years of the Perseids …
June 18, 2025 Colin Robertson of the Nevada Museum of Art told me about an art exhibit they had coming up and how a portion of it was featuring a paleontological dig in the Augusta Mountains. He suggested I do a ride out there. The Augusta Mtns weren’t even on my radar. Nevada has 300+ …