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We'll explore the old cabins and ghost towns within and around DVNP. View Rally Point

I'll post a link to the Youtube video once I get it cut up-- you can see the bone jarring trails we had to deal with. A far cry from the graded dirt super highway of Rim Road!!

Honestly, not a whole lot to see on the east end, at least not along Rim Road. Have you explored on the west end, beyond rim road? We did a bunch of exploring out that way and to Buckhorn Cabin. Really pretty, but man, those trails are in rough condition out that way, but a totally different...

Earlier this month, I led a small group of folks along OTG's 180+ mile Mogollon Rim Discovery Plan. With plans to follow up our Mogollon trip with Sedona, this was the perfect warmup for a 10 day adventure through some of northern Arizona's most breathtaking landscapes. After the Grand Canyon...

Humboldt Redwoods, More Rain, through the heart of the Emerald Triangle, the Mendocino Coast It rained on and off over the course of the night. By the time folks started crawling out from their warm, dry, beds, the light rain had turned into a steady drone of moderate rain. I'd warned folks...

We were in the throes of what would qualify as an average winter in Northern California. But after 10+ years of severe drought, it seems that most of us have forgotten what a normal winter feels like. It means significant amounts of snow in the mountains, and numerous winter storms delivering...

Maxxis makes fantastic products, and are big in the competitive off road racing. You'll see Maxxis' everywhere if you go to a Baja Rally or King of the Hammers. I only run Maxxis tires on my mountain bikes and had a pair of Razr ATs on my previous rig (LX570). The MTs were relatively quiet...

Some of the things we saw/experienced on days 3 & 4 included a visit to the top of Mills Peak fire lookout, a trip to upper Sardline Lake, tons of views of Lakes Basin, a visit to Sierra Buttes lookout, and a drive through historic downtown Downieville. We didn't get a chance to visit Alleghany...

It is a proprietary route from overland Trail Guides. Just sharing the deets from the trip, GPX is behind a paywall.

Day 2 Our neighbor atop his ATV came by camp shortly after 9am as he'd promised. He'd sifted through the buckets of dirt the kids collected, and claimed to have found a few gold flakes in the gravel. He gave one of the kids the flakes in a glass bottle. The kids were all super stoked they'd...

Tahoe BDT is a nice option, I'd also recommend checking out the Plumas BDT, Lassen BDT, and Mendocino BDT. For the lassen BDT, jump on at hwy 36 and head north to avoid the dixie fire burn scar. For the plumas section, I'd use the historical fire map layer in Gaia GPS to figure out which...

This past July, we set out on the Lost Sierra Trail with a small group of friends. I'd driven (or ridden on my mountain bike) the vast majority of this trail in bits and pieces, but never as one cohesive route. In an effort to spice things up a bit, I decided to alter the original route and take...

It's the same section of trail along M1 that has caused the road to fail just about every wet season over the last 3-4 years-- and here we go again! Hoping the forest service figures out a reroute around that slide-prone section. There used to be an old road that went down to Howard Lake about...

Even though I visit Mendocino NF more frequently than just about anywhere else, for whatever reason, I hadn't done the BDT in a single trip. Typically, we'd do bits and pieces and explore new areas along the way. Before covid hit, you could drive for hours without seeing anyone in the forest...

Snow should be a non-issue come April. :)