The walk-in campsite was a good experiment Aug 26-30, 2024 I was invited back to the Earth Guardians Camp to lead 5 bike tours out to the perimeter fence and give a talk during their lecture series. My working title for the talk, “Setting up bike tours for the environment.” The talk was a blueprint …
Continue reading Bikepacking Northern Nevada Goes to Burning Man Again
Nick LePalm gives his presentation at the Black Rock Rendezvous, all a part of Connect, Inspire, Protect 5/23-27/2024 I will stick by my assessment that BRR is the best event on the playa. It brings together the diversity of multiple user groups to show the many uses of the Black Rock Desert. The main host …
Continue reading Bikepacking into Black Rock Rendezvous; Rides with Friends #2
This year, 2020 needs no further introduction, Adventure Cycling's two member-lead events, Bike Travel Weekend and Bike Your Park, were pushed around, pushed together, and in some cases made virtual. I decided to lead a ride despite the Moderate to Unhealthy air quality conditions we had been experiencing in the wake of the West's worst …
Continue reading Overnight; Bike Your Park, Dry Valley OHV Area
The three inch wide tires on my Salsa Fargo glided over the sand as if I were on a hard packed trail. It's likely there was only an inch layer of sand blown over the hard packed dirt road but a few weeks prior the conditions forced us to turn around when we explored this …
Continue reading Ride Report; Between Smoke Creek Desert and Pole Creek Wilderness Study Area
It has been a long hot summer, said everyone in the West. Northern Nevada seemed to set new records of days and consecutive days above 90 and approached the record for triple digit temperatures. While we had our fair share of wild fires we seemed to have been spared the worst of smokey skies. The …
Continue reading Ride Report: Pyramid Lake to Smoke Creek Desert
This route has gone from a three part ride over a month's time to a three part ride over nearly two years. So many miles between the first leg of this tour in September, 2014 to finishing it in June, 2016. I think this is an outstanding route from Pyramid Lake to the Black Rock …
Continue reading Pyramid Lake to Black Rock Desert- in three parts.