This year PNMTA members, Sierra Stompers 4×4 members, Komstock Krawlerz 4×4 members, and other local volunteers filled a 50 yard dumpster with illegally dumped garbage around the Pine Nut Rd. area.
Another huge thank you goes out to the Douglas Disposal Inc., for their generous donation of the dumpster.
As in the past many years the Sierra Stompers have earned a huge thank you also for the effort they have put to help our cleanups.  Thank you also to the Komstock Krawlerz 4×4 Club for cleaning up along the Brunswick Canyon Rd. Thank you Carson Motorsports for the pizza, Costco for drinks, and Jimmy D. with V&C Construction for the portable toilet.

All of our members who were able to attend I thank you too. George S. and Kevin T., thanks for running the show this year.

Without a lot of helping hands we could never accomplish what we have with these cleanups. And yes it is working, there does seem to be a little less garbage dumped out there each year.

DougH

 

On March 26, 2015, PNMTA and the Blue Ribbon Coalition co-hosted a meeting for OHV users to learn about the Carson City District, BLM, Resource Management Plan revision and to learn how to write substantive comments regarding that plan.

Over 70 concerned people attended. Among the local clubs and groups of note were, The Nevada Trail Stewards, The Sierra Trail Dogs, MRANN, The American Motorcyclists Assoc., and representatives from local Indian Tribes.

Many questions got answered and many comments got discussed.

PNMTA would like to thank Frank B., and Jim F., from the Sierra Trail Dogs for coming all the way from the Sacramento area and giving a generous donation covering the cost of the meeting. THANK YOU.

Video of the meeting can be seen on the Nevada Trail Stewards, Facebook Page.

More information on how you can help by writing and sending comments to the BLM can be found elsewhere on this site, pnmta.org

Thank you all who attended the meeting. I hope it was informative for you.

Thank you all who are helping us Preserving Public Lands for Public Use

Doug Holcomb

President, Pine Nut Mountains Trail Association

Don Amador from Blue Ribbon Coalition leading the discussion and answering questions.

 

 

March 20^th will be our big middle gate event.   The middlegate ride is an overnight event we have at middlegate station, nv.  It’s about 40 miles past Fallon on hwy 50.   We arrive Friday afternoon and ride all day on Saturday.  It’s typically around a hundred mile ride on tough technical trails, sandwashes and mountains.

Middlegate has cheap hotel rooms, good food and drinks.   I have a room booked two nights for 60 bucks total!   RV parking is free.

This is one of our most fun events! We look forward to seeing you. We can talk about it more the monthly meeting on the 10^th.    There might be a separate shorter/easier ride (quads and SxS’s too) depending on the folks who are coming out.

 

 

Sunday Sept. 21, 2014 Ed B. and Abby Dog and I made it to the top of Jobs Peak.

The day started out cloudy and a bit gloomy with a reported 40% chance of thundershowers. We met at 9:00 AM, evaluated the morning figuring that it was early enough to at least get a good start on the hike. If it looked threatening we would turn back. As it turned out the cool temperatures made it great for hiking.

The hike starts out pretty steep right from the truck and Ed’s blistering pace had me quickly longing for oxygen. He was good enough to stop occasionally, long enough for me to catch up. That pace did get us to the top pretty quickly which was a good thing due to us racing smoke from the King Fire in Pollock Pines, Ca., more than racing thundershowers. We topped out just as the smoke was drifting our way past Freel Peek and Jobs Sister. We pretty much just took a couple of pictures, wrote our names in the book on top and walked down in light smoke. Pretty good timing overall.

The good timing continued on the way down as it just started to lightly sprinkle rain just a couple of minutes from the truck.

All in all a great hike. Short but steep with incredible views, when the air is clear. Just have to do it again