Video at normal speed on youtube channel suenord1 (https://youtu.be/oKY-yPb0nsE)
I returned to my sister’s house in Reno on March 6th, having fled the Grand Canyon, where I had intended to film the following day. The wind was howling at the Grand Canyon, and snow and subsequent -4 degrees Centigrade were being forecast for that evening. I didn’t have car chains or snow tires, so I had to get somewhere warmer pretty quickly.
A couple of days after I got to Reno, however, the temperature got up into the 70’s F, and I decided to take a bicycle ride with my sister. We pumped up her tires and put the bike in working order with odds and ends left over after I had put my folding bike together.
We parked along the Truckee River east of the River’s Edge RV Park, and headed upstream. The snow-clad Sierra Nevada loomed in the backdrop of my video. The bicycle path was paved and mostly level, though the geese had made a pile of deep sand at one point.
There were a few people on the Tahoe-Pyramid Bikeway (which becomes the Truckee River Walk when you get downtown). We got lost when we crossed the river at Lake Street, and missed the path along the north side of the river. We ended up on 1st Street, which became a one-way street going the wrong way on the second block, and finally fumbled our way back to the River Walk. We continued to Arlington Avenue, where I rode south over both branches of the river (the second one is for kayaks). I filmed a little ways up Island Avenue, then went back to a little park and rode over a foot bridge back to Truckee River Walk and S. Arlington Avenue.
The river was running much higher than usual, and the emergency services were practicing rescue techniques on the river. Many people were simply out soaking up the sunshine, since this was the warmest day they had had since the previous Fall.
I think this is a very interesting area to bike, if you are looking for a new town to explore. Reno calls itself “The Biggest Little City in the World”, and it has a lot to offer.
