Nick LePalm gives his presentation at the Black Rock Rendezvous, all a part of Connect, Inspire, Protect 5/23-27/2024 I will stick by my assessment that BRR is the best event on the playa. It brings together the diversity of multiple user groups to show the many uses of the Black Rock Desert. The main host …
Continue reading Bikepacking into Black Rock Rendezvous; Rides with Friends #2
"Be the most generous as a host and the most resolute as a fighter." Bedouin proverb Sunrise over Lava Beds Camp / Eagle Rock Springs photo Jeff R “I have seen more horny toad lizards on this ride than in my entire life”, remarked Miles Gurtler. I’d agree. We saw a great diversity and abundance …
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 …
This route was inspired by some of the research I made for my last newsletter and Doug Artman’s route the Sagebrush Ripple. From the Raine’s Market website there was an entry about Pritchard’s Station and a cross-reference with Atlas Obscura's entry on the stagecoach route between Eureka and Tybo. My understanding is Pritchard most likely …
Continue reading Short Tour; Pritchard’s Stagecoach Route Eureka -Tybo Loop + Kilns
Doug Artman came to me with a very ambitious route The Great Basin Criss-Cross, about 1,200 miles round trip from Carson City to Gandy, UT. I figured it would take 24+ days. But what an adventure! Rethinking the commitment Doug returned with a 350 mile-ish criss-crossing route in central Nevada named, *pending. Not a super …
September 22-24, 2023 In response to the feeling like I am the king of overnights I wanted to create a series of 3 day - 2 night trips in Black Rock Country. I had some feedback from Sasha Magee of San Francisco, that making the trip to Gerlach from the Bay was a little much …
Continue reading Route Development: Seven Troughs-Lava Beds Loop
8/29/2023- This May I met Karen Rusiniak at the Black Rock Rendezvous. She asked me if I would be interested in giving bike tours of the perimeter fence, aka “trash fence,” during Burning Man as a part of the Earth Guardians camp. I am not good at saying no, so I said yes. I had …
Continue reading Bikepacking Northern Nevada Goes to Burning Man
Rides with Friends #2; Cassidy Mine Loop Friends of Black Rock High Rock volunteers greeting campers on playa May 25, 2023 My favorite event for Friends of Black Rock High Rock is the Black Rock Rendezvous. Analogous to the regional meetings of fur trappers and pioneers as well as indigenous peoples, the Rendezvous is a …
Continue reading Smoke Creek Desert on my way to Black Rock Rendezvous
Christine took to bikepacking naturally Photo Jason Christine Anderson came to me about a year ago and said, "I want to get into bikepacking so I can eventually do a tour in Canyonlands, UT." Or something like that. I wasn't really listening to the eventual goal she had in mind I was just thinking about …
Continue reading Short Tour; White Rim Trail, Canyonlands NP, UT
More snow than I expected from the start of the ride. Dec. 26-30, 2021 note: I don't know why the photos beyond Tonopah are not loading in the post. If you click on the boxes they appear. Winter may not be the most desirable time to do a bike tour in the northern latitudes. But …