This photo is looking north at sunrise on the Black Rock Desert playa. The designated route forms a permanent depression in the lakebed which has collected water and is frozen at least during the predawn hours.
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Ride Report; Bike Your Park, Washoe Lake Rim Ramble
Along the aqueduct above Washoe Lake This was my 5th Bike Your Park Day for Adventure Cycling Association. Adventure Cycling has two member-led trips a year, Bike Travel Weekend and Bike Your Park. They harness the enthusiasm of their members to the power of their website and staff to promote travel by bike across America …
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2017 Freewheeling to the End, 2018 Shifting Gears!
Without this blog I would be riding about the desert just as I have been for the last three years but this outlet has made it all the richer. Looking back a year ago I was reflecting on the crisis of loosing our public lands, especially the protection of our wilderness. So one goal of …
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A Day in the Desert with Chris Carnel
I met Chris on a mountain bike street/stunt road trip with Jim Severt. We road urban terrain in Sacramento, CA before traveling into the California Central Valley to find and ride a full pipe Jim knew about. It feels like that was a lifetime ago. Since then I have known Chris on the fringe between …
Roads to Nowhere, just to follow
I spend a fair amount of time tracing virtual lines in the dirt I find in the satellite view of maps online. I am particularly interested in finding a route north to south through Nevada. On a smaller scale I would like to find a dirt route from Reno to the Oregon border. But for …
Why this blog?
I started with Facebook photo album XNV CX, Exploring Nevada's Dirt Roads by Cross-bike, but my cyclocross bike became my road bike and I stayed off the rocky dirt roads. The seven photos represent two rides, one above Sun Valley and the other from Wadsworth to Pyramid Lake following the Tahoe Pyramid Bikeway. My next thoughts …
Bikepacking Northern Nevada 