Halo Ride –  Saturday August 29, 2009
From left to right:
Andrew Valestrino, Lee Turner, Ed Monnig, Randy Meyer, Eric Martin

We like to thank Ed Monnig for joining us on a tour of the first four miles of the Halo trail.  Ed is the District Supervisor of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest. His duties include overseeing nine ranger districts and one national recreation area, for a total 6.3 million acres in Nevada and Northern California.  The Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest  is the largest national forest in the lower 48 states.  Now that’s a lot of land to to keep track of and manage!  The Poedunks really appreciate all the time and effort of the USFS staff over the years to make the Halo Trail a reality.  Thanks Ed and hope you enjoyed the ride.

It is hard to believe after years of hardwork the Halo Trail is finally happening. The NCC has made excellent progress this Spring completing a little more than a mile so far the Double U is almost complete. The Poedunks kicked off the trailwork season Saturday April 18 by dialing in a switchback and taking a ride/tour of the Halo. Thanks: Lee, Stan, Alan, Maryann, Brian. We are going to be very busy finishing and riding the trail in the next few months and look forward to seeing y’all out there. Please check out the slideshow below to see the progress. -Randy

meet at that East Keystone Canyon TH @ 5:45 pm

Ride approx. 1-1/2 hours

Thursday, 5:45 @ the Basque Monument. Dale is going to update us on the current status of the Entrail project.

-M

A new friend and newcomer to Reno just asked me, “Where is Peavine?”

Peavine Mountain Nevada is the big hill north of Reno. It’s cornered by McCarran and North Virginia Streets. Dog Valley road loops around to the north, but it’s dirt. It’s our backyard, our playground, and for the better part of the summer it’s the stage that shows the sunset every evening. You can’t miss and you shouldn’t.

I’m going to show him around our trails today after work. Softball fields @ 5:45. Join us for a spin.

-M

The Galena Cycling Club has been building a new trail in south Reno. This last weekend Randy attended a Tahoe Rim Trail sponsored seminar during which they worked on some new sections of that trail. He’s offered to take us on a tour of that trail.

Please join us for a nice casual ride with a little bit of trail-geekery, news of the progress on the new Entrail (N-Trail), and beers @ the end on Thursday. We’ll meet up @ the Galena West Trailhead by the NDOT station off the Mt Rose Hwy (S.R. 341) at 5:45 p.m..

-M