Celebrate the last rays of the day, Hungry Valley When I refer to bicycle touring I include day-tours, overnights, short tours, and long. They all have a place in the pursuit of bike travel. What distinguishes the tour from "just a ride?" A tour has a purpose, a goal of a route, destination, a view …
The more we use our public lands the more we learn about how they are managed and protected for future generations. The Pah Rah Range is a backwards C-shaped range from the Truckee River in the south to Pyramid Lake in the north. Its proximity to Reno/Sparks and established Public Lands Access points makes it …
Continue reading High Basin Pah Rah Petroglyphs; S24O Local Overnight
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
Raymond Eliot, our two dogs and I got out for a quick Sub-24 Overnight (S24O) between work days at the Reno Bike Project. Following the S24O model it was the perfect get away. Our bikes were packed with a little dinner, water, coffee making paraphernalia, and sleep/shelter needs. Reno and Nevada for that matter is …
My friend Dean had originally led me up Lagomarsino Canyon to the petroglyph site a couple years ago. To this day I rate it a top 5 or top 3 outing in the Reno area. But it in not the greatest ride. The trail from Lockwood along Dry Valley Creek is incomplete, phantom, rugged, underwater, and …
"Why do we enjoy this?" Dean asked me. "I don't think you do. I think you forget between rides what I talk you into doing time after time," I replied jokingly. We just had a winter storm in the Sierras that dropped a few inches below 7,000' and over a foot in the higher elevations. …
Finding the perfect time to ride Garson Rd is tough. The draw is always there. Today there was a challenging amount of ice on the road above 7000'. Although I have studded tires on my Fargo this time of year I was riding my Surly Instigator. We have a storm due in the next couple …
I don't think of backroads when I think of Peavine because it has been a great source of single track ever since the Poedunks have been filling the south eastern quadrant of the mountain with quality trail. But this is not to overshadow the many great forest service and other backroads on Peavine. The most …
Continue reading Peavine Mountain; Reno’s Backdoor source for Backroads
I look around the northern Nevada landscape and wonder where that road off in the distance goes. From experience it is easy to dismiss distant roads as, they are probably too steep, too loose, too sandy, too muddy or too rocky. They probably go nowhere, dead-end on a ridge or in the bottom of a …
Peavine Mountain is one of the most famous peaks on the Reno skyline, possibly third to Mt. Rose and Slide Mountain. Peavine is by far the most popular area for mountain bike riding. The land managers are varied from city/county parks, private property and the Humbolt-Toiyabe National Forest. Many locals still believe the Bureau of …
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