Trail Karma Opportunities:

• Saturday & Sunday, July 23, Multiple Times:

  • City of Reno Adaptive Sports program is seeking volunteer experienced mountain bike riders and coaches to work with adaptive mountain bike riders during their adaptive mountain bike camp held at Sky Tavern. To see time slots and sign up, check out their signupgenious event page linked here. For more information, contact April Wolfe through the City of Reno Adaptive Cycling website linked here.

Trail Outlook: Hot but Cooling

• This week is starting out flirting with the triple digits but with each weekday we’re expecting a little cooler high. Evening winds are expected most days but nothing particularly serious. Overall, conditions are insanely good for the first week of July so stay hydrated to have the most fun.

This Week’s Events:

• Tuesday, July 04:

  • Independence Day

    • Happy 4th Y’all!

  • 4:00-11:00 pm

    • Truckee Trails Foundation is offering a free bike valet at Truckee High School for people taking the free shuttle to West End Beach independence day festivities. If you are heading in that direction, consider riding or walking to the shuttle pickup instead of fighting with the traffic around Donner.

  • 5:30 pm

    • Tuesday Night Ride Group is riding from the Callahan Ranch trailhead. This is a choose your own distance ride so do as many laps as you like. TNRG is a casual mountain bike ride group for all skill levels. They don’t wait for a mass start, so when you arrive, introduce yourself or just start riding as you like. More details can be found at their Facebook Group Page linked here.

  • 5:45 pm

    • Silver State Striders are not scheduling a run due to the holiday. Check their Facebook Group Page for more details. You can also find their training schedule on their website at this link.

• Wednesday, July 05:

  • 7:45 pm

    • Bike Night Reno will be rolling out a group of riders of all kinds from the Space Whale in Downtown. As their name suggests, this is a night ride so lights are required. Whether it’s a simple headlamp and taillight or full on burner bike light-splosion is entirely up to you. This is a mostly flat road ride friendly to all wheeled contraptions at an extremely social pace. For more information, follow @bikenightreno on instagram.

• Thursday, July 06:

  • 5:45 pm

    • Silver State Striders will be running the Church’s Pond climb starting from the Jones-Whites Creek trail in Galena Creek Park. Check their Facebook Group Page for more details. You can also find their training schedule on their website at this link.

• Friday, July 07:

  • 8:30 am

    • Trail Karma Opportunity: Truckee Dirt Union, Sierra Buttes Trail Stewards, and Truckee Dirt Riders are teaming up to host the Boca Big Dig day. This is breaking ground on singletrack as part of SBTS’s Connected Communities project and will eventually allow trail users to bypass much of the Boca Stampede road between Sardine Valley and Boca Dam along the East side of the reservoirs. For more information, to RSVP, and to learn more about Connected Communities, follow @TruckeeDirtUnion, @SierraTrails, and @TruckeeDirtRiders on Instagram.

  • 5:00 pm

    • Dames of Dirt are hosting their Friday Night Lights event at the Truckee Bike Park. This is a casual drop in ride session to meet friends, work on skills, and start the weekend right. For more information, follow @DamesOfDirt on Instagram.

• Saturday, July 08:

  • 8:00 am

    • Silver State Striders are not organizing a weekend long run but encouraging their members to organize amongst themselves. Check their Facebook Group Page for more details. You can also find their training schedule on their website at this link.

  • 10:00 am

    • Muscle Powered is hosting a grand opening event for the nearly completed Capitol to Tahoe trail at Spooner Lake State Park. This is a great time to celebrate all the hard work by builders, organizers, and partners that are making an amazing trail come to life. For more information, follow @MusclePowered on Instagram or their Facebook Page.

• Sunday, July 09:

  • 9:00 am

    • Radical Adventure Riders (RAR) Reno are hosting Dirt Church at Sierra Vista Park. Dirt Church is intro to mountain bike skills for all FTWNB riders. To RSVP and for more information, follow @rar.reno on instagram.

That’s what’s on my radar at the moment. If you know of something I missed or is coming soon, send me an email  and it might get listed. See you outside!