The shortest bike packing trips, they can be linked together for longer tours or used as side trips as tourists pass through the area.
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 …
Continue reading Stillwater Range, Numunaa Nobe NCA and Bolivia Ghost Town
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 …
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+ …
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 …
Jayhawk Well and windmill, I expect water when I see livestock, mile 10.5, Sahwaves on the horizon The Sahwave Mountains are an isolated range in northern Nevada between Pyramid Lake and Lovelock. I have approached this range from the south off the I-80 exits, Hotsprings Nightingale, Jessup, and Toulon. From the north I have ridden …
Continue reading Through the Notch, Juniper Pass, from NV 447
September 13, 2023 South of Gardnerville on US 395 is Simee Dimeh Summit and just beyond that is Leviathan Mine Road. The mine's name had always intrigued me, why have a nautical themed mine? Even if in name alone. I looked up the explanation of Leviathan and it was a Biblical sea monster, serpent or …
Continue reading Ride Report: Leviathan Mine Rd. Desert to Alpine
Sagebrush, aspens, creeks, high alpine vistas - visual distractions from all the climbing Photo Marc P The diversity in the the riding conditions, in the views, and the challenges along the way were a great distraction in this route. I really questioned if I had what it took to climb to Lobdell Lake but it …
Continue reading Ride Report; Desert Creek, Floor to Ceiling
Four seasons in Black Rock Country can be experienced in a single ride Rides with Friends; Ride 'til Snack Time! Riding in the northern Nevada, north of Pyramid Lake, west of Winnemucca is not new for me. In late 2018-2019 I spent the year focused on riding out of Gerlach. Over a dozen visits to …
Continue reading Rides with Friends; Exploring Black Rock Country by Bicycle
The dark skies, wind, and cloud bursts across the Black Rock Desert did not slow our ride nor any of the activities during the Black Rock Rendezvous Carlo Luri described the weather as "spicy". Not to be so kind, it was the WORST! But that is ok. Spring time in Nevada can and will be …
Continue reading Rides with Friends #2: Cassidy Mine Loop and Black Rock Rendezvous