I’ve been seeing pictures of snow in parts of the country and I do miss my ski adventures. That said, it’s been warm enough in Tucson to usually ride in shorts and short sleeves. The couple days it dipped...
Arizona Trail Pistol Hill
The Arizona Trail section that heads north towards Saguaro National Park from just past Vail, AZ is a great section. We usually start this ride from the Cienega Creek Natural Preserve. The Preserve is a 4,010 acre parcel of...
Arizona Trail
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....
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...