Today’s ride just outside Big Flat, CA was remote and beautiful, but pretty toasty. We road a mostly gravel loop through forest roads and then up Corral Bottom from the Hyampon Side. We road mountain bikes for this because we had no idea what the condition of the gravel roads would be. The temps have …
The terrain along the Trinity River in Northern California is very hilly. Very. There is room for a river, a road, a couple houses and then the canyon walls rising steeply. We cheated and drove a few miles to get further up the winding Corral Bottom Road for a ride. This ride was mostly paved, …
Derek and I did a mixed surface ride (road and dirt/gravel) out by Trinity Lake. This lake is one of the largest reservoirs in California with a capacity of 2,447,650 acre feet and 145 miles of shoreline. The Alpine scenery surrounding the lake makes up the Trinity Alps with dramatic, rugged landscape of chiseled granite peaks, glacially …
Helena, CA is a ghost town near Weaverville in Northern California and we rode our bikes out to the end of the road to see the forest and Trinity River. The site of the Helena ghost town was originally a Native American camp going back as far as 4,000 years ago. A man by the …
After our two weeks in the Yosemite area we headed north and west. The drive was beautiful as we headed past Clear Lake. Clear Lake is believed to be one of the oldest lakes in North America with core samples indicating it’s at least 480,000 years old. With 68 square miles of surface area, it’s …
There isn’t much singletrack to ride in the Yosemite area, but there are a lot of gravel/dirt roads to explore. This ride was entirely gravel/dirt and was a nice quiet exploration of the forest surrounding Fresno Dome and the Sugar Pine Railroad. This ride starts in the forest with Big Creek flowing alongside in a …
You wouldn’t think it, but the area we’re staying in has endless miles of rolling grassy hills with oak and manzanita trees. At leas, early in spring it’s green and inviting, though I’m sure it dries up in the summer. We found this gravel ride on the Fresno Cycling page so figured it was fairly …
I don’t even remember how I found this ride but I’m glad I did. It’s a long drive from most anywhere you’d ever be. We are in Coarsegold, CA and it was about 40 min to where we started our ride. Instead of driving all the way out to the start of Million Dollar Road, …
The Lake Isabella and Kernville area of California have a lot of dirt/gravel roads to explore. Right from our boondocking spot we headed out on a great ride. I’m calling it the Keyesville Gravel Ride. Our route climbed through the Keyesville Special Recreation Area on a short pavement section before hitting dirt and winding up …
Construction began on a road through the Kern Canyon in the mid 1890’s. This road was built by Edison Electric for constructing their Kern River #1 powerhouse between 1902 and 1907. Materials needed to construct the facility were transported using 20-mule teams across rough terrain and up steep, narrow mountain roads carved out with picks …