Weekend Outlook 03/09-03/12, 2023
Local Bike Industry Job Opening
The Reno Bike Project is looking to hire a bike riding instructor. The position will be working primarily with youth learners and requires being comfortable riding on roads with traffic. This is a great organization to work for on a mission to build a better bike community in the Truckee Meadows. For more information you can contact RBP through their website, RenoBikeProject.org, or follow them on Instagram @RenoBikeProject.
Weekend Events:
Thursday, March 09:
5:45 pm
Silver State Striders will be running 7 ish miles of hills starting and ending at Eclipse Running (Moana & Lakeside). Check their Facebook Group Page for more details. You can also find their training schedule on their website at this link.
Saturday, March 11:
8:00 am
Silver State Striders will be running 21ish miles of road with rolling hills starting and ending at Mayberry Landing (Mayberry & McCarran) and working through the southwest ridges and canyons neighborhoods out and back. Check their Facebook Group Page for more details. You can also find their training schedule on their website at this link.
11:00 am
Radical Adventure Riders of Reno (RAR) are putting on an introduction to Bikepacking clinic and future adventure brainstorming session at The Jessie in downtown Reno. This is open to FTWN-B riders. For more information, follow @rar.reno on Instagram.
12:30 pm
Radical Adventure Riders of Reno (RAR) are leading a beginner friendly road ride from The Jessie in downtown Reno out to and along Veterans Parkway for a total of 15-20 miles. This is open to FTWN-B riders. For more information, follow @rar.reno on Instagram.
Sunday, March 12:
Daylight Savings Time Begins
Spring those clocks forward an hour and bring more sunshine to the afternoons.
10:00 am
(Rescheduled to Sunday March 19) Kurstin Graham (BikepackingNevada) is leading a gravel ride out and back on Winnemucca Ranch Road. This is a choose your own distance ride on a relatively beginner road with a meetup for food afterwards. Kurstin a fantastic and welcoming ride leader who always cooks up some sort of adventure. For more information and to RSVP, check out the Facebook Event Page here.
Trail Outlook
Wet. Very very wet. Another monster storm is rolling in Thursday night with variable snow levels resulting in lots of rain for valley floors and regional trails. The forecast for where the rain snow line has changed a lot this week, but the bottom line is we will get a lot of water and trails will be very unpleasant to be on at all times this weekend.
If you’re a mountain biker, now is an excellent time to beat the rush for spring bike maintenance at our local bike shops. Come March and April, wait times for annual fork and shock service can be as far out as May. Get your gear in for that tune up now so that you have a nice refreshed setup come prime spring conditions.
The snow forecast up top is similarly ridiculous. Upwards of 7-10 FEET expected across the sierra crest coming down pretty much constantly from Thursday evening to early next week. If you were planning on getting up to the slopes, I’d strongly recommend having a plan B that doesn’t require mountain driving.
If you are swapping the running and riding for a little back country sliding, check out the latest avalanche conditions over at Sierra Avalanche Center. The snowpack is like nothing we’ve ever seen before and hazards can lurk in normally safe areas. Knowing where to look can make the difference of coming home.
If you get out, let us know what you saw by submitting a trail report.
Be kind, be safe, and enjoy.
March 09, 2023 Conditions. Snow, ice, or very wet mud expected across the Peavine Trail network.