Join us as we partner with the Nevada Conservation Corp and Washoe County
Parks on National Trails Day. Should be a nice day in the trees, something
we are not used to on Peavine! Send an email to Matt Miller below to sign up
and hope to see you there.
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*National Trails Day 2008*
*What: Trail Walk and Construction
When: Saturday June 7, 2008
Where: Galena Creek Park, off Mount Rose Highway.
Time: 9 am - 2 pm
Other: Contact Matt Miller to register or just come!
(775) 784 -3504
**mmiller(at)thegreatbasininstitute.org*
*FREE Lunch with Beverages
Chance to win Raffle Prizes from sponsors
*Come celebrate the 16th annual National Trails Day on June 7th by helping
build and maintain a trail in our own backyard. The trail is in Galena Creek
Park, just south of Reno off of Mt. Rose Highway. Volunteers will be
assisting with trail construction for an interpretive trail that will
connect the new Visitor Center to the Jones-White’s Loop and a historic
site.
The Nevada Conservation Corps will give instruction on trail building, no
prior experience is necessary!
All ages are encouraged to attend, bring the family!
Meet at 9:00 am at the trailhead, North (first) entrance to Galena park,
near the restrooms.
Lunch will be provided.
*Coordinated by: The Great Basin Institute, The Poedunks, and Washoe
County.
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It’s always nice when you can singlespeed something you use to suffer up on the little-ring. Juni and I went up cow canyon yesterday AM. Weather was great! The morning sun coming over the ridge from mogul was beautiful and even though there is all that building going on that area still seems almost remote.
Only intrusions are the sound of the Interstate, the one house poking over the hill from Mogul and the trenches, braids, stutterbumps and mudboggs cut into the trail by ATVs and motorbikes.
What used to be a sweet fast flowy and technical downhill is now unrideable in some spots thanks to motorbikers riding up the hill under full throttle in wet to muddy conditions. Now I’m not going to say those guys have no right to the trail (cause the USFS has already said that) but this could have been, and still could be, a good area where we can share the trail. The only thing we ALL need to do is concede this one simply tenant of two wheeled fun: If you can’t get up or down something without dragging your rear wheel, or digging a rut up a climb then you’re a hack and need to slow down and learn how to ride. Or am I missing something? Is that the goal these guys have? Do they see a nice trail and say, “Wow! how awesome would it be to obliterate that and make it almost impossible to ride!!!!!”
That said, this trail is not well aligned and is completely unsustainable even under the best of circumstances. Perhaps the Poedunks will get to it one of these years. I can’t help but think that when citizens look up at areas like that and then consider weather they want the City / County to limit development they think, “what’s the point? It’s just road warriors tearing shit up out there anyway…”
I’m a little torn about mentioning this to y’all, but, well, someone had to ski it. It’s been a great January and I’ve yet to see any tracks on this local peak. That changed this morning.
I have to confess I’m a little concerned about the access to this place. There’s a number of No Trespassing signs peppered in the trees leading up to this spot. And though I’m pretty sure we did a good job of staying on public lands and using public right-of-ways to reach what the topo-map indicates is a thoroughly public-owned piece of lovely skiing, I’m going to err on the side of caution and let the pictures speak for themselves.
So, no beta for you! Those of you who have scoped this line will put it together easy enough. And if you do, please be so kind as to not give away anything in the comments. The last thing I’d want is for the guy who put those No Trespassing signs up to see his (publically owned) backyard on proud public display. Keep it stealth, and we might be able to enjoy this a bit longer.
And the lord said, “let there be sick,” and there was sick and behold it was very sick…
Captain Redbeard and I dropped Credit Card Bowl at about oh-dark-thirty this morning. Wind was howling on the road, but disappeared altogether about 20 meters down. Pow was sick, sunrise was sick and for the most part the good Captain and I were quite well. Yes, quite well indeed…
The Cap’n demponstrated the dangers of falling in a tree well. Fortunately I was there to ease the sting by laughing at him. We agreed on a new saying: he who laughs last, bails early. Funny how that worked out…
Don’t worry. I bought him a bagel for laughing at him. We’re cool.
That’s right. I was not only there, but right there on the roof! Being behind a camera looking over the edge was almost like being the first wako to skiBASE of a building in a dense urban area. But not quite.
Shane McConkey, JT Holmes, Jesse Hall, and Miles (lightning bolt sideburns) Daisher are all hereby invited to be on Team Bacon Strip!
These guys might look nuts, but were way careful. Shane (McfreakingConkey) packed and repacked the ramp and tested the speed of it numerous times before the jumps. Everything went well, even after Jesse Hall’s minor mishap with getting his ski tangled after his double flip. You got to push the boundaries, it’s not like they gonna push themselves…
Here’s Jesse pulling flip one of two. Not sure what happened. Perhaps he over rotated after the chute opened. Either way, It was WAY freaky watching him careen OOC around the corner of the Silver Legacy out of sight and hear the loud clack of him hitting down. A few minutes later we heard cheers, and got twitters and phone calls and txt messages that he was OK.
All in all a SWEET event to benefit the Make A Wish Foundation, which helps make wishes come true for seriously ill children.
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