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 eventually have made it there on this back road. It’s rugged and remote so plan accordingly. …
Month: November 2021
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 corner of La Contenta and Alta Loma in Yucca Valley. After passing plenty of funky ranches …
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. Our ride was 12 miles with 1353′ of climbing. The trails out here are slow going …
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 these days, this memorial was controversial and after a Supreme Court case, Congress eventually transferred the …
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 Mountains. Our ride was 27.6 miles with 1760′ of climbing up to around 5800′. We started …
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 total of 5.8 miles. Barber Peak Loop is a fairly easy hike as far as it …