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 …
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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 …
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 9-18, 2024 Following the trade show, check out Made in Taiwan - Part 1, Tomo and Cola continued my indoctrination to Taiwan. I consider myself to be extremely fortunate to have them as my guides. When Tomo asked me what I wanted to experience in Taiwan, I gave him the quick and flippant answer, …
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The view leaving the tradeshow pavilion March 5-19, 2024 While this is not a usual bikepacking through Nevada’s high desert trip report, in fact it might be the furthest from it, but it was a great trip and I will tie in as much to bikepacking as I can. After a cross-Pacific flight from San …
I had been looking forward to a trip to Ely for months. My plan was to tour a few nights leading up to the Fire and Ice Festival. My exposure to Ely has been limited, I raced Fears, Tears and Beers Enduro mountain bike event in 2013, spent a weekend a Cave Lake State Park, …
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 …
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Pine Nuts Pedaler Project Marc and I were riding the Mt Seigle loop last April and I wondered out loud, "How could we see all the routes we ride in an area in a single view? Wouldn't that be cool for an area as popular as the Pine Nuts?" How did I get here? Where …
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Geographic names become funny as you study maps, talk to locals, then confuse them in your own mind. Dog Valley is one of many examples I have encountered in my travels in northern Nevada. When I here people "rode Dog Valley" I first make certain assumptions then I am eager to find out more. I …