Category Archives: Information

I have set up a special account with Desert Community Bank (DCB) to hold donations for a reward leading to the arrest and conviction of the driver involved in the hit-and-run on Apple Valley Road last Saturday.

Had a bit of trouble embedding cycling feeds into pages using Yahoo! Pipes, but now by making use of Twitter’s excellent feed widget, general cycling news is back.

A mountain lion has been spotted going in and out of backyards near the Hesperia Golf Course for the last several days, according to residents.

This morning on Apple Valley Road around Symeron, a passing truck hit Tim “TJ” Moreno in the back of the head with its mirror. Moreno went down, taking Steve Stearns with him. Stearns “only” has major road rash; Moreno had … Continue reading →

Route 66 (AKA National Trails Highway) has been repaved and/or slurry sealed between North Bryman Road in Oro Grande and Vista Road in Helendale. They haven’t gotten around to painting the lines, yet, but this 4.5 miles of the roadway … Continue reading →

Now that the weather is supposedly getting better (for those who don’t consider wind to be part of “the weather”), you’ve probably read stories about how we’re going to have another bumper crop of snakes.

I’ve added two century routes to the Rides section — one from Apple Valley to Huntington Beach, and the other a loop from Apple Valley up Route 66 to Barstow, down Highway 247, and back to Apple Valley on Highway … Continue reading →

The Town of Apple Valley has been doing a lot of slurry seal work. Bear Valley Road, Outer Highway 18, Thunderbird, and a bunch of smaller streets are getting the treatment.

Unlike the main section of this site, which is handled by WordPress, the “Rides” section was being handled by MediaWiki. Mediawiki is a large, complicated, and difficult piece of server software that is used by Wikipedia, among others. I had … Continue reading →

We’ve made a small modification to the site that makes it easier to navigate when visiting with a mobile device such as an iPhone. So, now you can still be in the know while you’re on the go.