The 2021 version of the Las Vegas 300 on the Las Vegas Valley Loop hosted 40 club members. The Loop around Vegas covered 140 miles on Day 1 and from 140 to 185 miles on Day 2. The 2021 of the ride reversed direction from 2020. The ride stayed and started near Boulder City on Private Property at the Hoover Dam Lodge. There were no course marking and the loops were navigated by GPS Tracks. From the start at the lodge we took some rocky old mining roads near the Hoover Dam, rode sandwashes to under 2 freeways and across another FWY to across a dry lake to over McCullough Pass to Jean dry lake. After one rocky uphill, the guys gassed up in Jean for a 90 mile trek over little used 2 track to Pahrump via Mountain Springs. Everybody did a good job leaving early and everyone was in before Dark, which comes early in Nevada in November. The club hosted a nice dinner at the Pahrump Nugget Saturday Night, where we held a Banquet and gave away Swag from Pirelli, Highway Dirt Bikes, Acerbis, and Off Road Champions. One of the guys who started Dual Sport events back in the day, Larry Langley drove over from near Yosemite to Emcee the Banquet and hang out with the club. After an included breakfast 30 of the club members took off early, save for the 2 guys who had flats in the morning. After just a bit of stress, they were on their way. Day 2 offered 3 Routes back to the Hoover Dam. The beginning and the end of the routes all offered the same options. The center sections offering your choice of shorter and easy, challenging and a bit longer, and Longest and Scenic. The 2 shorter routes traversed North Las Vegas and went thru Las Vegas Motor Speedway, where as the longer Loop totally avoided North Las Vegas. The day 2 loops varied from 140, 160 and 185 miles. Towards the end of the route had the most difficult navigation and challenging sections of the ride, and all 3 loops ended up in Boulder City, before returning to the Hoover Dam Lodge. Everyone again made it in before dark. We will try and do the Las Vegas 300 again in 2022 the weekend before Thanksgiving. The Las Vegas Valley Loop is a Fun Challenging ride over the Mountains to Pahrump that circumnavigates Las Vegas from the Hoover Dam, that you would not put together on your own.
