Mountain Biking at Sacramento Pass Recreation Area, Nevada

 When I was reading my friend Jenny's blog about their trip to the recently-opened Sacramento Pass Recreation Area, I was inspired to go for a visit.

They have a really nice sign with lots of information.

While my husband and Desert Girl tried their luck at fishing, Desert Boy and I decided to try one of the hiking/mountain biking/equestrian trails. To make it a little easier, we biked up the road to the equestrian trailhead, which also has three very nice campsites. Then we started down the trail.

It was fun mountain biking!

We reached some obstacles where we had to walk the bikes.

The trail was well marked in some places and in others we had to do a little searching. We rebuilt a couple rock cairns that had fallen over.

A little bit of the trail was flat and smooth.

A lot of the trail had rock obstacles.

I was quite impressed with how Desert Boy handled his bike.


























Here's a video that shows Desert Boy going over a particularly rocky section.


We were getting a little tired after mile two, and the aspens sort of took over the trail. Nevertheless, we persevered, as we knew we were close.

It turned out to be a great ride, and we look forward to going back and trying out some of the longer trails.

Meanwhile, Desert Girl had learned to cast well.

We had forgotten the worms, so we only got two trout in about 2.5 hours, so we'll have to go back and work on that too!

Sac Pass is definitely on our list for camping next year. The BLM did a really nice job renovating this area, and we'll be back!

A Little Fishing

 We decided one evening to go out for a little fishing trip to a nearby pond. The kids were so excited, they love to fish.

 We're not very good at fishing because we don't go often, but the fish were rising like crazy, so it didn't take long to catch our first trout.

 Desert Boy was rocking the flip flops. He thought it was pretty cool that we let him go to the other side of the pond all by himself.

 I thought it was cool that we had such beautiful light!

 Some birds kept us entertained, like the Brewer's Blackbird (above), as well as killdeer and common nighthawks.

In the end we caught two trout (we decided we needed different bait), which we ate the next evening. Yum. We'll be back!

What's your favorite fish to catch and eat?