Thanks, Mark for the great suggestion! Photo Joe B November 8-9, 2025 It is awesome that Mark Yakushev (@mark.yakushev) recommended we do this. For a guy from Scotts Valley/Santa Cruz, CA he loves coming out to the desert. Once we had a weekend I put it out on FB Events. It is a medium length …
Continue reading Black Rock Desert Hot Springs Micro-playa Overnight
There is beauty in the gnarled trunk of a Utah Juniper October 16-20, 2025 I was just getting back from the Great Basin’s Edge and I had this idea for a Sheldon Lap. I was inspired by the trip I took in May with Wildwood Open Lands Foundation. I created the route by starting with …
Nearing the top of a 3000' climb in the Bodie Mountains, this is the Great Basin's Edge Doug A October 6-12, 2025 Sometimes you have a grand route in front of you and you just decide to chop it into a shorter grand route. And that is how this trip went. "Good bye, Wyatt!" And …
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
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 …
Iconic High Rock! This photo was taken by Shay Daylami who was on the first High Rock Rides with Friends trip. Its never the same without you! June 6-8, 2025 My first tour through High Rock Canyon was the test for Rides with Friends, a bike touring program for Friends of Black Rock High Rock. …
Continue reading High Rock Canyon – Stevens Camp; National Trails Day 2025
Overlanding past "the Antler House" above Jackass Flats into the Calico Mountains Photo Erik C. May 13-18, 2025 Wildwood Open Lands Foundation wanted to have its annual "members only" trip have something more than “on the fly” stewardship. In situ stewardship is a great opportunity to put best principles of Leave No Trace and Tread …
Tonopah in the distance /toe-KNOW-pah/, pronounced Karen Jacobsen on Google Maps, not /Tone-Ah-Pah/ on my 4-ish hour drive to Tonopah, I’m not sure I want to go to Toe-NO-pah. Nevada’s place names are a challenge to outsiders and I don’t hold it against them, I know I couldn’t do better without hearing a local first. …
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