We had a couple short moving days to get up here to Susanville, CA. I hate sitting for more than a few hours so we never drive very far. We boondocked one night in a defunct drive in movie...
Pioneertown Ride
Back in the day Derek and I raced up at Big Bear Mountain a lot for the California State Series. While we didn’t ride all the way to Big Bear on this ride, had we kept going we would...
Eureka Peak Ride
Derek and I rode up to Eureka Peak in Joshua Tree National Park. Our ride was 22.6 miles with 2316′ of climbing up to 5469′ of climbing. This out and back was all on sand/gravel road starting from the...
Joshua Tree Desert View Conservation Area
Desert View Conservation Area is approximately 605 acres of undeveloped desert biome with mountain biking and hiking trails. None of the trails are very long, and we had to be creative to weave them all together into a ride....
White Cross Memorial and Kelso
Before we left Mojave we walked over to the White Cross World War I Memorial which was first constructed at Sunrise Rock in 1934. It’s a beautiful setting of granite rock outcropping maintained by volunteers. Unfortunately, like most things...
Exploring Ride in Mojave National Preserve
There aren’t any mountain bike specific trails in the preserve, but we rode our bikes out some gravel, dirt, and rock roads back to see Rock Springs and then further to some giant rock boulders in the New York...
Barber Peak and The Rings Hike
The Mojave Preserve stretches out across an expansive 1,542,776 acres and one day we drove over to an area called Hole in the Wall to hike around. We hiked Barber Peak Loop and up through Rings Trail for a...
Mojave National Preserve Lava Tube
Our planned ride was canceled before it started because there was some sort of train track failure and two VERY long trains were stopped across the road we needed to take to get to the start of the ride....
Teutonia Peak Hike
I hate driving. Not the physical act of driving, but the sitting. For that reason, I’m a sucky traveler and we try not to spend more than a few hours driving between spots. We found a great boondocking spot...
Charles Manson’s Cabin Ride
There seem to be endless gravel roads that head up canyons in Death Valley though some are longer than others. We rode up Goler Canyon one day to Barker Ranch and back. Our ride was 15 miles with 2530’...