Dreaming of clear jungle streams, My Big Brazil Trip March 7-29, 2026 Travel loses its charm when flights get delayed, connections are missed, the next flight out is 3 days away, and when there is uncertainty regarding the location of my one piece of luggage, my touring bike which will be my home over the …
Sunrise bike tours August 26-29, 2025 This is the third time Bikepacking Northern Nevada goes to Burning Man. But I still don’t call myself a Burner. Maybe I’m getting closer to being an Earth Guardian. Maybe. Sunset bike tours Although I left the Reno Bike Project a couple of years ago I still enjoy volunteering …
Continue reading Burning Man 2025 – Bikepacking Northern Nevada returns for the reboot
March 8-9, 2025 A few years ago I asked our Facebook group, Burrito Packing NV, what kind of rides/trips they were interested in. Mark Yakushev was interested in snow camping, so that meant a fat bike route on snow with the opportunity to spend the night on snow. So when the first opportunity came up …
Continue reading Winter Bikepacking Overnight – Dog Valley Crystal Mine
Slowpacking defined Scientists who study butterflies and moths are called boring Lepidopterists. The order lepidoptera is the third largest order of insects with approximately 160,000 - 300,000 species. (Why the range? Common with the most highly specious groups, scientists are busy describing new species regularly. So with 160,000 species described or “known to science”, experts …
Wilson Canyon May 3-5, 2024 Sasha Magee contacted me with a couple of spring dates for a 3 day bike tour. He came out for my 2022 Rides with Friends tour through Fly Canyon. One piece of feedback he gave was it would be nice to have a longer tour for driving out from San …
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.
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 …
Continue reading Ride Report; Bike Your Park, Washoe Lake Rim Ramble
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 …
Continue reading 2017 Freewheeling to the End, 2018 Shifting Gears!
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 …
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 …