Mountain biking · Cathedral Gorge State Park, Nevada, USA · recorded with NomadTracks
Cathedral Gorge: a short ride through Nevada's clay cathedral
Cathedral Gorge is small, strange and wonderful: a valley of bentonite-clay spires and curtain-like slot canyons in eastern Nevada. This short 5.5 km ride uses the bike as a park shuttle — roll between the formations, lean the bike at a slot entrance, walk in, repeat.
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Ride-and-hike, the lazy masterpiece
The park's flat valley floor makes a bike the perfect tool: distances that would be a hot walk become two-minute rolls. The recorded track shows the pattern — short fast lines connecting clusters of dead-stop POIs where the slots begin.
Why record a 5 km day
Because the slots are a maze in miniature and the photos pin themselves to the exact canyon they came from. Half the value of the library is big expeditions; the other half is being able to answer 'which slot was THAT one?' years later.
About the place: Cathedral Gorge State Park, Nevada, USA
Cathedral Gorge State Park sits near Panaca in eastern Nevada, just off US-93 — a compact valley of bentonite-clay spires and walk-in slot canyons formed from volcanic ash lakebeds. It's an easy half-day stop between Great Basin National Park and the Utah parks; spring and fall offer the kindest temperatures, and the clay turns to glue after rain.
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