Weekend Outlook 03/23-03/26, 2023
Weekend Events:
Thursday, March 23:
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.
7:00 pm
Biggest Little Trail Stewards are having their monthly meeting at Mi Casa Too on West 4th Street. This is open to all and is a great way to get involved behind the scenes in grassroots local trail building. See you there!
Friday, March 24:
7:30 am - 9:00 am
Radical Adventure Riders (RAR) Reno are bringing you Coffee Outside. This week’s morning cup of micro-adventure on bikes will meet at Dick Taylor Memorial Park (1140 Beech St). More information about joining can be found by following @coffeeoutsidereno on Instagram.
Saturday, March 25:
8:00 am
Silver State Striders will be running 18ish miles of dirt and paved road starting and ending at Horseman’s Park and venturing through the Southwest ridges and canyons. Check their Facebook Group Page for more details. You can also find their training schedule on their website at this link.
10:00 am
Radical Adventure Riders of Reno (RAR) are leading an AIDS Lifecycle training road ride. This ride will be roughly 20 miles starting at The Hub on Riverside and riding the Verdi loop. This is open to members, prospective members, and those interested in supporting their efforts. For more information, follow @rar.reno on Instagram.
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. Hidden Valley Regional Park trails are excellent. The advanced hillside loop at North Valleys Regional Park is dry as well as the North most approach trail from the parking lot. Las Brisas trail from Kings Row to the big tree as well as the Bud Canyon trail approaching West Halo are firming up nicely. The snow cornices survived the midweek weather and are on all Sparks facing (East) ridges with significant snow across North facing slopes. 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. We have limited snow in the forecast overnight Thursday and another storm lining up for Sunday night so timing and volume can mean either significantly improved or declining conditions. I’m leaving the graphical forecast at snow/ice/mud for everything at the moment since this is such a limited 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 23, 2023 Conditions. Snow, ice, or very wet mud expected across most of the Peavine Trail network.