We spend time in Tucson every winter enjoying family and warm weather so a lot of our posts aren’t about new rides. The Arizona National Scenic Trail is a complete non-motorized path, stretching 800 diverse miles across Arizona from...
Sunshine and Cacti
We’re back in the Southwest for the winter and loving the warm temperatures and sunshine. The last few weeks have been full of bike rides (both mountain and road), and family time. We rode our old favorite Honeybee to...
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....
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...
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....
Beatty, NV Gravel Loop
I call this a gravel loop, but we rode it on our mountain bikes to be safe…and more comfortable. We modified a loop that was used for the Tinker Classic gravel race a few years ago. Our loop cut...
Spicer Ranch
In January 2019 we spent our second night as full-time travelers in Beatty, NV and three years later, here we are again. We skipped a couple places we wanted to check out because the temps were too cold and...
Edison Lava Ride
During our finally week in Bend we rode more of our old favorites which look a lot like all the other trails in Bend so we didn’t take any pics. However, Edison to Lava Lake and back was the...