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 …
Pole Line Road - beautifully graded gravel, dry and goes forever First outing of 2025, where to go, how far, how long? It is great to have so many options! I was considering a Tonopah to Goldfield Loop, Imlay to Winnemucca Dunes, or a Pine Forest Range Loop. But rather than spending more time in …
Kumiva and Purgatory Peaks, Selenite Range It’s been a good year at Bikepacking Northern Nevada. In the spirit of every trip inspires the next, 2024 was no exception, and the rides of 2024 will inspire the adventures in 2025. 2024 started with me traveling in Alamos, Sonora, Mexico between Christmas and New Years. Now I …
Continue reading Over My Shoulder, 2024; Around the Next Bend, 2025
Nye Canyon wash, not too snowy Getting home from Basin and Washes on November 23rd, I went straight to the calendar to see if there was an open weekend to offer a trip to our local group. It is a busy time of year. Probably no busier than any other but suddenly it is bookended …
Continue reading Winter Solstice Overnight – Pine Grove Loop