Weekend Outlook 05/11-05/14, 2023

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Trail Karma Opportunity:

• Thursday, May 11:

  • City of Reno Project HERO is looking for veterans with bike mechanics skills to volunteer to teach other veterans basic bike mechanic skills. One evening each month transitioning veterans learn how to work on a bike that will become theirs. For more information, check out the Project HERO website or the Veterans Helping Veterans For Bikes Facebook Event Page.

• Saturday, May 20:

  • Silver State Striders are looking for volunteers to help staff their annual Silver State 50/50 trail race on Peavine. This is a great way to have fun outside, give back to the trail community, and meet a lot of very appreciative runners. For more information about the race and to contact them to volunteer, check out their event website linked here.

Weekend Events:

• Thursday, May 11:

  • 5:45 pm

    • Silver State Striders will be running 8 ish miles of hills starting and ending at River Bend. Check their Facebook Group Page for more details. You can also find their training schedule on their website at this link.

• Friday, May 12:

  • 8:30 am - 9:00 am

    • Radical Adventure Riders (RAR) Reno and Northern Nevada Bikepacking are teaming up to bring you Coffee Outside. This week’s morning cup of micro-adventure on bikes will meet at the Pennington Health Sciences Building on the UNR Medical School campus. More information about joining can be found by following @coffeeoutsidereno on Instagram.

  • 5:30 pm - Overnight

    • Radical Adventure Riders (RAR) Reno are leading a beginner friendly gravel ride. (The overnight portion has been canceled but will still be leading out a fun gravel ride from Horseman’s Park). bikepacking sub-24 hour overnight (S24O) trip. This ride is for FTWN-B riders and will be no drop but bring your own kit and food. An S24O ride involves a ride to the campsite, eating dinner, sleeping overnight, coffee (maybe breakfast) in the dawn, and riding back. This is a quick sort of adventure ride that works great for learning the overnight skills of bikepacking as well as how to pack an overnight kit. For more details, follow @rar.reno on Instagram.

• Saturday, May 13:

  • 8:00 am

    • Silver State Striders are not planning a long run but encouraging members to plan 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

    • (Carson City) Muscle Powered is hosting their annual gear swap at the Brewery Arts Center (King St). Plenty of outdoor gear to browse through for summer and winter adventures. For more information or to register to sell your gear, check out their website or their Facebook Group Page.

• Sunday, May 14:

  • Mother Day

    • Just a friendly reminder to you trail crazy people. Take a moment to wash off the dirt (or get dirty… you do you) and say thank you.

Trail Outlook

• Spring is whiplashing back this weekend with beautiful outdoor conditions. Breezes in the evening and a tiny chance of rain on Sunday afternoon, but otherwise, expect sunscreen and extra water conditions on the trails. Plenty of dry trails out there with only the last few upper mountain trails still impacted by remaining snow. The lower mountain and most regional parks and trails are expected to be dry. See you on the trail!

• Peavine Mid and Upper Mountain Snow: Between Total Recall bench and Mahogany Bench, snow lingers, or is indirectly melting, on trails leaving large mud sections. Mahogany bench itself is still encased in snow and the Mahogany Forest trail climbing to Peavine access road has a number of large snow fields covering it.

• Tahoe Pyramid Trail in the canyon between Truckee and Verdi is clear.

Truckee Meadows Trail Damage:

• Peavine’s Keystone Canyon is washed out for a couple hundred yards above the intersection with the Fisticuffs trail.

• Lower Thomas and White’s creek trails are dry but both feature major washouts and creek running in trail sections. Please avoid for the time being as there are no easy reroutes for the damaged areas.

Local Trail Closure: In Carson City, King’s Canyon loop and waterfall trails are closed due to a rock fall. Check out the monster boulder and debris field on Carson City Parks and Open Space’s Facebook page here.

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. Spring snow and heat cycling brings new risks in the backcountry. 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.

May 11, 2023 Conditions. Snow, ice, or very wet mud expected above the Mahogany Bench. Mixed conditions between the Total Recall and Mahogany Benches.