January 7, 2025 Climbing into the West Humboldt Range with Doug A I credit Jay Petervary with these two mantras of bikepacking. Do the work applies to the big picture as much as the immediate details. There are a million places to cut corners in a trip, a good example is a sloppy tent pitch, …
Continue reading Do the Work, Ride Forward – 2025 in review and looking ahead to 2026
Doug A finishing his Burnt Cabin Loop, AKA Middlegate Madness Middlegate is a favorite route starting point for many reasons. The Middlegate Station is a great place for a post ride meal, resupply, a place to park, and easily accessible off US 50. It has a gas station and EV charging station, RV park, motel …
Pole Line Road - beautifully graded gravel, dry and goes forever First outing of 2025, where to go, how far, how long? It is great to have so many options! I was considering a Tonopah to Goldfield Loop, Imlay to Winnemucca Dunes, or a Pine Forest Range Loop. But rather than spending more time in …
Kumiva and Purgatory Peaks, Selenite Range It’s been a good year at Bikepacking Northern Nevada. In the spirit of every trip inspires the next, 2024 was no exception, and the rides of 2024 will inspire the adventures in 2025. 2024 started with me traveling in Alamos, Sonora, Mexico between Christmas and New Years. Now I …
Continue reading Over My Shoulder, 2024; Around the Next Bend, 2025
Our second night, camped in the pinyons Is it Dark Sky’s or Dark Skies? At the start of the trip we still didn't have a name for the route. Doug liked Dark Sky's( or Skies?). I chose Dark Sky’s because I wanted it to say the route belongs to the Dark Sky. One may assume …
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 …
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
May 20, 2023- My initial thought was to overnight at Fiddlers Green. I had been by this spot in 2016 after riding Eldorado and Sullivan Canyons. This time I was approaching from Brunswick Canyon. As you can imagine the Pine Nut Mountains are a spiderweb of linked canyons. The bonus is there are some geologically …
Starting out on Soldier Meadows Rd, Hualapai Flat, the Calico Hills, and Black Rock Desert on the right off picture. Photo Sasha Magee How do you know you are saving the best for last? When Rides with Friends started in October of 2020 we picked a showcase ride, High Rock Canyon. Then in 2021 I …
Continue reading Rides with Friends #6; Soldier Meadows-Fly Canyon Loop