Our last ride in the Great Basin area went up into the hills and Black Horse Canyon towards Mount Moriah. It was purely exploratory because we knew nothing about the roads. It was mostly a success. The gravel/dirt was...
Iceplant Trails, Ely
The Ice Plant Trails start just outside Ely at an obscure trailhead down a dirt road. A lot of work has been done as a collaborative effort between White Pine County, the Forest Service, BLM, Nevada State Parks, the...
Cave “Lake” Ride
Cave Lake State Park in Ely, Nevada is normally a 32-acre reservoir but right now it’s undergoing construction to modernize it and there is a tiny puddle. Nevertheless, we did a FANTASTIC mountain bike ride there one day. We rode...
Ward Mountain Trails
After our time in Lamoille Canyon we are now by Ely, Nevada up in the high desert at around 7500′. We have never been here either so we’re excited to explore. Our first ride was around the Ward Mountain...
Moving Days
For people who live full time on the road traveling, we don’t really like driving. I can’t stand to sit for more than a few hours so we never go far on moving days. After our stay at Mt....
Bridle Trail Loop – Mt Hood
On a cool morning we rode what we call the Bridle Trail Loop. This was not our first time doing this loop so we knew what to expect. The trail follows the Barlow Road – part of the Oregon...
Cooks Meadow Loop
What we call the Cooks Meadow Loop by Mt Hood, OR is one of our favorite rides in the area. It combines two awesome singletrack trails into one loop. We climbed Lookout Mountain Trail and came down Cooks Meadow...
Lookout Mountain Loop
Summer in the west can be difficult. We managed to have clear skies and no smoke the entire time we were in Port Angeles and til the end of our stay in Cle Elum but it will be a...
Teanaway Part 2
There are enough trails at Teanaway to ride more than once and we did. This time we incorporated a couple gravel road sections to get out to Mammoth Rock. We got off to a rough start when the gravel...
Teanaway Community Forest Mountain Biking
Teanaway Community Forest in Cle Elum, Washington has something like 280 trails, though some of those are forest roads. The 50,241-acre landscape lies at the headwaters of the Yakima Basin watershed. Washington state purchased the land in 2013 with...