Marc's tarp became Meg's kitchen as we toured the Calico Mountains 2021 ended with a super fun winter tour going into a Good Night 2021 S24O back in Reno. How do you top an ending like that? While we chase superlatives that best past experience, hopefully the chase for bigger, better, and more never gets …
Bike Your Park 2020 started it all Matt, Mike, and Shay, friends sharing a trip experience A year of hosted overnight rides began in September of 2020 with a smokey trip to Dry Valley as a part of Adventure Cycling Association’s Bike Your Park event. This year had events every month and through the widest …
Continue reading The Year of the Overnight; 2021 Pedaling with Friends
Shay, Matt, and Mike joined me for the combined Bike Your Park/Bike Travel Weekend overnight Driving out to Bike Your Park/Bike Travel Weekend combined event by Adventure Cycling Association I said to Shay Daylami, "So much of it (getting out for an overnight) is overcoming inertia. You can always come up with reasons not to …
Continue reading 2020 Annual Review; Overcoming Inertia and Building Momentum for 2021
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!
In a sea of sagebrush on the Toiyabe Crest Trail I started looking back on 2018 by re-reading my review of 2017. Then I went through my posts of 2018. Then I went through my Garmin Connect Activities for 2018 all taking me down memory lane. I also scanned the statistics to see what were …
Continue reading The out-and-back, 2018 in review, and out again, 2019
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