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Let's talk singletrack. I've been riding for a lot of years and love a nice steep, tight, windy rocky bike trail. But now that I'm teaching my little boys to ride mountain bikes, I'm realizing that where we live, there aren't a whole lot of trails around here that are easy, or moderate, honestly, most of the bike trails in Reno and Tahoe are, if not hard, then have so much steep climbing as to be hard for a new rider to have fun on, particularly kids.
So was stoked when my friend Kevin told me about a new trail system he was contracted with his business, Sierra Trail Works, to build for Washoe County Parks.
PROGRESSIVE
The North Valleys Trail system is a progressive trail network that starts off wide and flat and easy, then builds to moderate difficulty with a narrower singletrack and more climbing. By the time you get to the top of the loop, you're on tight trail with steep challenging switchbacks and expansive views.
The trail system has lots of opportunities for beginners and intermediate riders to ride and have fun and develop skills. This is made possible because of the stacked loops.
STACKED-LOOP
The basic trail at North Valleys is a loop around the big rocky mountain adjacent to the park. But it's not just one loop, the lower trails go up to intersect with upper trails, and come back down to re-join with lower trails. The result is that beginner and intermediate riders can stay on the lower trails and ride laps on the easier sections and get a good ride in.
More advanced riders can run laps around the whole network and milk all the mileage out of the system and work on gutting down their lap times.
In this episode we head out to the newest Mountain Bike trail system in the Reno, Nevada area to talk with Kevin Joell about the North Valleys Trail system.
Kevin runs Sierra Trail Works, a trail building contractor based out of Reno, NV who designs and builds multi-use and mountain bike trails in Reno, Tahoe and all over Nevada.
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Let's talk singletrack. I've been riding for a lot of years and love a nice steep, tight, windy rocky bike trail. But now that I'm teaching my little boys to ride mountain bikes, I'm realizing that where we live, there aren't a whole lot of trails around here that are easy, or moderate, honestly, most of the bike trails in Reno and Tahoe are, if not hard, then have so much steep climbing as to be hard for a new rider to have fun on, particularly kids.
So was stoked when my friend Kevin told me about a new trail system he was contracted with his business, Sierra Trail Works, to build for Washoe County Parks.
PROGRESSIVE
The North Valleys Trail system is a progressive trail network that starts off wide and flat and easy, then builds to moderate difficulty with a narrower singletrack and more climbing. By the time you get to the top of the loop, you're on tight trail with steep challenging switchbacks and expansive views.
The trail system has lots of opportunities for beginners and intermediate riders to ride and have fun and develop skills. This is made possible because of the stacked loops.
STACKED-LOOP
The basic trail at North Valleys is a loop around the big rocky mountain adjacent to the park. But it's not just one loop, the lower trails go up to intersect with upper trails, and come back down to re-join with lower trails. The result is that beginner and intermediate riders can stay on the lower trails and ride laps on the easier sections and get a good ride in.
More advanced riders can run laps around the whole network and milk all the mileage out of the system and work on gutting down their lap times.
In this episode we head out to the newest Mountain Bike trail system in the Reno, Nevada area to talk with Kevin Joell about the North Valleys Trail system.
Kevin runs Sierra Trail Works, a trail building contractor based out of Reno, NV who designs and builds multi-use and mountain bike trails in Reno, Tahoe and all over Nevada.
