Hillcrest Road drops down to Empire Farms, San Emidio Desert April, 27 2020 The San Emidio Desert has been on my list of places to visit for years now. If you are driving on Nevada State Route 447 between Nixon, Empire, then Gerlach it is on your left or to the west. Unfortunately you don't …
Have you ever gotten sick on a ride? Start out great, ride strong, then out of the blue, not doing so well. What do you do? Just that happened to me on this ride, this is how it went... Water and art in the desert! And a bike! November 18, 2019- I have driven past …
Continue reading Ride Report; Fairview Peak and Bell Flat Loop
Sometimes I know I have ridden in an area but when I look for my blog post I can't find it. This was the case for my ride in the Clan Alpine Mountains from May 17, 2018. I am scratching my head, why didn't I write this up? I covered such great terrain in 65 …
After riding the abandoned railroad grade between Wadsworth and Nixon and returning via the Tahoe-Pyramid Trail I found myself thinking what about paddling the Truckee and biking back on the T-P Trail. My cautious brain was in conflict with my adventurous brain. There have been few outings where I found myself questioning whether or not …
Continue reading Packraft and Bike on the Truckee River and Tahoe-Pyramid Trail
I have always been fascinated by the raised red cinder railroad grade along Pyramid Lake. I am not a train historian nor a railroad buff but I am interested in following these abandoned railroad grades by bike. My first adventure on a railroad grade was between Goldfield and Rhyolite. I found out about this potential …
Continue reading Pyramid Lake Project; Union Pacific Railroad Grade
I look for reasons to ride out of Middlegate. Middlegate is the self proclaimed middle of nowhere, in the middle of Nevada, off Highway 50, the Loneliest Road in America. You can't get a more enticing description than that! Jumping off from here I have ridden through the Desatoya Mountains, Shoshone Range, Fairview Peak, and …
September 9, 2019 Day trips serve the great purpose of getting me back to an area to ride the bits I skipped over on my last ride. It is unrealistic to think you can really ride and explore the roads of a mountain range in even a few visits. So after I did a loop …
Continue reading Ride Report; Returning to the Shoshone Mountains
Looking across to Sonoma Canyon, East Range and Humboldt Range on horizon November 4, 2019 After finding a high road based on a friend's tip how else could I find a high road? I was curious about wildfires this season and after finding a website that monitored wildfire cameras (I was first clued into wildfire …
Continue reading High Roads Project Part 6; Sonoma Peak 9,396′
From the Calico Mountains to the Black Rock Range I jumped into 2019 with grand plans of writing a bikepacking guide to the Black Rock High Rock Emigrant Trail National Conservation Area. With this focus I made 11 trips, primarily to Gerlach, to research routes to recommend the best riding experience. By no means did …
Continue reading From the Black Rock to High Points, 2019 Had Diverse Highlights!
August 19, 2019 This road did not make the list of high roads in Nevada. This is not a criticism of “the list”. But this road has been on my radar since I rode the Toiyabe Crest Trail north to south from above Groves Reservoir to the edge of Arc Dome wilderness. I finished this …
Continue reading High Roads Project Part 5; FS Road 44017 Climbing to the Toiyabe Crest Trail
