Riding up to Hunter Lake was an early challenge of mine. The Mount Rose Wilderness looms above Reno in the Carson Range of the northern Sierra Nevada. Interestingly it is split by a grandfathered road so you can take mechanized travel on approved forest service roads through the Mt. Rose Wilderness. This creates great opportunities …
Continue reading Ride Report; Beat the Heat, Beyond Hunter Lake
I have talked about this road in a previous ride report as well as a part of the Hunter Lake Rd area but had never fully explored the road. As posted at its beginning it is essentially an out and back trip that ends at a private road in the Truckee River canyon between Reno …
Continue reading Garson Road; Lessons learned on a gem of a route!
I'am including a rather large area in this ride but it is all out my backdoor; over looking Caughlin Ranch, Mogul, and Verdi, on the shoulder of the Carson Range's Sunflower Peak against the Mt. Rose Wilderness. Now there's a mouthful in a geographic description! But this diverse area around Reno's border with the Mt. …
Continue reading Hunter Lake, Hunter Creek, and the Steamboat Ditch
This is a climbers route. I always attempt this ride in early spring to beat the heat but get turned back by snow on this north facing shoulder of the Carson Range. This is one of the rides I consider right out my back door. A forest service sign at the base of the climb …
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