Marc P enjoying all the highlights of the route; bikepacking on singletrack through the trees along Desert Creek. June 20-22, 2025 When asked about a favorite route I quickly come back to Desert Creek. I have written about it several times in Bikepacking Northern Nevada and visit the area on and off the bike several …
Continue reading Desert Creek to Lobdell Lake: HOWL with Wildwood Open Lands Foundation
Iconic High Rock! This photo was taken by Shay Daylami who was on the first High Rock Rides with Friends trip. Its never the same without you! June 6-8, 2025 My first tour through High Rock Canyon was the test for Rides with Friends, a bike touring program for Friends of Black Rock High Rock. …
Continue reading High Rock Canyon – Stevens Camp; National Trails Day 2025
Overlanding past "the Antler House" above Jackass Flats into the Calico Mountains Photo Erik C. May 13-18, 2025 Wildwood Open Lands Foundation wanted to have its annual "members only" trip have something more than “on the fly” stewardship. In situ stewardship is a great opportunity to put best principles of Leave No Trace and Tread …
June 2025, 4 years and 6,500 miles later. They say it's not the years it's the miles. It's not the miles it's the terrain. Great Basin's high desert is some terrain! Manzanita and Nuke Sunrise crush the challenge. My gravel bike is a Manzanita Cycles 650b/27.5x 55/2.2 custom frame and fork with 6 water bottle …
Continue reading Spring/Summer 2025’s Rides with Manzanita Cycle’s Nick Jensen
Looking up from the top of Chidago Canyon Road, great quality gravel roads April 8, 2025 Benton Hot Springs is located in the Blind Spring Valley of Mono County, California. Zooming out to Benton Valley and Range, the private campground is in the shadow of Boundary (13,147') and Montgomery Peaks (13,441') of the Inyo National …
7-Eleven from our first night's hotel. Dinner, bank, snacks, hydration, and shelter from the elements. This March 14-30, 2025, plus some travel days Reno-San Francisco-Taipei (Taoyen) and back again, I was in Taiwan for the Taipei Cycle Show. Like last year, I was visiting as a tourist but with the goal of helping Tomo Ichikawa …
March 8-9, 2025 A few years ago I asked our Facebook group, Burrito Packing NV, what kind of rides/trips they were interested in. Mark Yakushev was interested in snow camping, so that meant a fat bike route on snow with the opportunity to spend the night on snow. So when the first opportunity came up …
Continue reading Winter Bikepacking Overnight – Dog Valley Crystal Mine
Slowpacking defined Scientists who study butterflies and moths are called boring Lepidopterists. The order lepidoptera is the third largest order of insects with approximately 160,000 - 300,000 species. (Why the range? Common with the most highly specious groups, scientists are busy describing new species regularly. So with 160,000 species described or “known to science”, experts …
Tonopah in the distance /toe-KNOW-pah/, pronounced Karen Jacobsen on Google Maps, not /Tone-Ah-Pah/ on my 4-ish hour drive to Tonopah, I’m not sure I want to go to Toe-NO-pah. Nevada’s place names are a challenge to outsiders and I don’t hold it against them, I know I couldn’t do better without hearing a local first. …
Doug A finishing his Burnt Cabin Loop, AKA Middlegate Madness Middlegate is a favorite route starting point for many reasons. The Middlegate Station is a great place for a post ride meal, resupply, a place to park, and easily accessible off US 50. It has a gas station and EV charging station, RV park, motel …