Weekend Outlook 03/16-03/19, 2023

Weekend Events:

• Thursday, March 16:

  • 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.

• Friday, March 17:

  • St. Patrick’s Day

  • 8:30 am

    • Radical Adventure Riders (RAR) Reno and Reno Bike Project are teaming up to bring you Coffee Outside. This week’s morning cup of micro-adventure on bikes will ride from RBP’s Fourth Street Shop to Mayberry Park. More information about joining can be found by following @coffeeoutsidereno on Instagram.

• Saturday, March 18:

  • 8:00 am

    • Silver State Striders will be running 20ish miles of dirt and paved road with some serious climbs starting and ending at the bottom of Toll Road and doing the VC Highlands loop out and back. This run has turnaround options for 5, 8, or 13 mile shorter routes. Check their Facebook Group Page for more details. You can also find their training schedule on their website at this link.

  • 9:00 am

    • Radical Adventure Riders of Reno (RAR) are putting on a Chickadee Ridge snowshoe adventure and meeting at the Raleys parking lot in Galena. RSVP is required. For more information, follow @rar.reno on Instagram.

• Sunday, March 19:

  • 10:00 am

    • 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

• Dirt, GLORIOUS DIRT! If you know where to look, and you obviously do because you’re reading this website (thanks!), there is beautiful, firm, spring conditions, dirt to be found. We just raced the Reno Devo short track mountain bike race at Hidden Valley Regional Park and the trails within the fence were excellent! With this sunshine and drying breeze, I suspect that this will also describe the Las Brisas trail from Kings Row to the big tree as well as the Bud Canyon trail and maybe a mile of West Halo. The snow cornices are back this year on all Sparks facing (East) slopes and North facing slopes are still well coated in the white stuff. But limited segments are beginning to firm up during this sunshine window so enjoy it while it’s open. Sierra Vista is still holding snow on all single track so your best bet for finding firm trail is the Kings Row or Keystone West trailheads on Peavine. I’m leaving the graphical forecast at snow/ice/mud for everything at the moment since this is such a limited time and location window. The majority of the mountain is still very wet or buried, but there are some sneak peaks of the excellent spring to come.

• Local Trail Closure: King’s Canyon loop and waterfall trail are closed for the immediate future due to a recent rock fall. Check out the monster boulder and debris field on Carson City Parks and Open Space’s Facebook page here. This is a good reminder that this historically snowy and wet winter has reshaped a LOT of trails. As we start getting out and about, keep your head up and speed down on trails you haven’t been on this spring.

• This beautiful weather window will bring the out of towners to the resorts and to oggle at the crazy amounts of snow in Truckee and Tahoe again this weekend. If you are heading that way pack snacks and patience for the traffic.

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 insane amount of winds and varying snow line throughout the most recent storms have reshaped the entire risk profile of the backcountry for the worse. 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 16, 2023 Conditions. Snow, ice, or very wet mud expected across most of the Peavine Trail network.