Trail Karma Opportunity:

• Biggest Little Trail Stewards are holding a trail work day and need volunteers. See the Saturday 10am listing below for the link to details.

Weekend Events:

Here are the events that are on the radar for this weekend:

• Thursday, February 10:

• 5:45pm

  • Silver State Striders will be running hills in southwest Reno. Departing from the Eclipse Running, this is ~8-10 miles of pavement and hills. Lights and reflective attire required. More details on their website.

• Saturday, February 12:

  • 8:00am

    • Silver State Striders are running a 16 mile loop out of the Virginia City Highlands Fires Station. More details on their Facebook Group Page.

  • 10:00 am

    • Biggest Little Trail Stewards are looking for volunteers to help with trail repair on the Sierra Vista Connector. See their Facebook Events Page here for details and RSVP instructions.

Trail Outlook

More of the same but warmer. This may be the end of the dry streak but at the moment, the warm bluebird days are expected to stick around through the weekend. As it stands this morning, all trails west of Keystone Canyon excluding Evans Creek and the N jump line are firm enough or outright dry. The canyon trail itself does have some isolated mud but is entirely usable between the Keystone East parking lot and the radio towers (Hoge Rd). All other single track climbing out of Hoge Rd has extensive mud, snow, or both and the warm days are only going to make those areas worse. 4wd roads climbing out of Hoge are somewhat better and you can access the Total Recall bench via the roads, but no segment of single track is deep mud free. Similarly, the only dry access to the Poedunk bench is via climbing Fisticuffs. Both up and downhill from the bench along Poedunk trail feature extended snow and mud. The longest continuous segments of dry single track are West Halo climbing out of West Keystone or Kings Row trailheads or Las Brisas and the Las Brisas Connector. Both park trail networks (Sierra Vista and North Valleys) are entirely useable as well as outlying parks such as Wedekind and Hidden Valley. Two weeks ago there were barricades preventing use of the advanced jump line at Sierra Vista due to lingering water between lower jumps so make sure to scout that line before dropping in.

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. Shrinking snow fields may be very thin over drainages as the water melts the snow from below. 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.