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Johnson Valley Loop October 17, 2018 Navigation gets considerably more challenging when you get off the burned-in two track and traverse across open Off Highway Vehicle (OHV) areas. Johnson Valley is the largest OHV area in the United States at 96,000 acres, and plays [...]

China Ranch Date Farm to Johnson Valley October 16, 2018 Day 4 of the Rebelle Rally marked the second half of the marathon stage, which started with a 66 km Rebelle Enduro Challenge (REC) from China Ranch Date Farm through the 1.6 million-acre Mojave [...]

Diamondfield to China Ranch Date Farm October 15, 2018 Competitors woke up before dawn to 17-degree temperatures to start Day 3 of the Rebelle Rally presented by Hoehn Adventures in Diamondfield, Nevada. The route started with a Rebelle Enduro Challenge (REC) to Goldfield, and [...]

Diamondfield Loop October 14, 2018 Rebelles got a few extra minutes of sleep this morning, as the route for Day 2 both started and ended in Diamondfield, meaning that they did not have to pack up their gear for the day. Day 2 started [...]

Kingston to Diamondfield October 13, 2018 Rebelle Rally competitors departed Kingston, Nevada this morning after a chilly night camping at Miles End Lodge Bed and Breakfast. The course took them through Monitor Valley and past the iconic Diana’s Punchbowl. Also called the Devil's Cauldron, [...]

Teams departed The Village at Squaw Valley at 7 AM and headed east into the rising sun on Day 0 of the Rebelle Rally. Why not Day 1? First-year and experienced Rebelles alike were given the opportunity to get a feel for the start [...]

Teams from around the globe have descended on The Village at Squaw Valley near the iconic Lake Tahoe to take part in the third annual Rebelle Rally. This driving and navigation rally spans over ten days and over 1,600 miles across an all-new, uncharted [...]

Out of the field and into the city. Rebelle Rally competitors returned to the reality of cell phones, emails, and traffic on Saturday after seven days of intense competition in remote corners of Nevada and California.  The return to normal life also reconnected them with their [...]

Sand storm shakes up the standings. The final day of the Rebelle Rally took place in the Imperial Sand Dunes, with conditions that challenged each and every team. Rebelle founder Emily Miller purposely made Day 7 the most difficult; what she didn’t anticipate was [...]

Veterans Lead The Field Day 6 of the rally started with an Rebelle Enduro Challenge in Johnson Valley OHV Area that gave competitors a taste of traditional rally raid events such as the Dakar Rally. Following the timed-controlled Enduro, the teams had 18 checkpoints [...]

Jeeps rule the day. Day 5 of the Rebelle Rally started in Johnson Valley, home of the famous Hammers trails. This an open OHV area, affording competitors more freedom in their route selection. “The navigation was very difficult, all of the checkpoints were very [...]

Marathon stages shakes up standings. Day 4 of the Rebelle Rally was the second half of the Marathon Stage, picking up where Day 3 left off in Dumont Dunes.  Last year these dunes wreaked havoc on a variety of competitor vehicles, and this lesson [...]

Marathon Stage 1 The morning started early as competitors had to pack up their tents, bags, and gear to start the Marathon Stage. Day 3 started with a Rebelle Enduro Challenge through the picturesque White Mountains to Silver Peak, Nevada. From there teams navigated [...]

The competition heats up. Sunday marked Day 2 of Rebelle Rally competition, with teams embarking out to the playa - this isn’t Burning Man though. The women of the Rebelle crossed Kibby Dry Lake, one of the numerous dry lake beds that endure as [...]

And they're off! Day 1 of the Rebelle is in the books. The first scored day of the Rebelle Rally covered the high desert chaparral, rugged mountains, and sweeping valleys of the rural Nevada landscape. Day 1 started with a short Rebelle Enduro Challenge, [...]

Rally School and a Taste of What’s to Come. Rebelle Rally competitors departed The Village at Squaw Valley at 5 AM in the morning, amidst freezing temperatures and dark skies.  Twelve hours later the women of the Rebelle Rally arrived at the first Base Camp, and this was [...]

Vehicles Clear Tech Inspection at Squaw Valley Ski Resort. Teams from five countries and eighteen different states arrived at The Village At Squaw Valley in anticipation of the second running of the Rebelle Rally. For the uninitiated, this week long all-female navigation and driving [...]

America’s first all-female navigation rally has come to a close, with ups-and-downs, triumphs and challenges; great days and bad days—the dust has settled and the results are in.  […]

Competition Tight As Rebelle Enters Final Day of Competition.Our Rebelles are out in the expansive dunes of Glamis as we speak battling it out for their top spot in the Rebelle Rally, America’s first all-female navigation rally. […]

California’s Johnson Valley OHV Area hosts some of the toughest, most-grueling four-wheel drive events in the world—including the famous King of the Hammers each year in early February. With terrain varying from dry lake beds, to river washes with plenty of whoops, to the [...]

No matter if you’re one of the most-experienced female four-wheel drivers in the country, or an enthusiast team doing something like this for the first time—the course can bite you equally. Both Team Sugar High (#126) of Michelle Davis and Andrea Shaffer; and the Squirrel [...]

  Rebelle Rally: The Marathon Leg Starting in Blair Junction, Nevada and running all the way to California’s Johnson Valley the Rebelles had to navigate over 746 kilometres (463 miles) on the marathon leg, traversing some of the most-remote terrain the Southwest has to [...]

A day of shakeups. We walked into the second official day of the Rebelle Rally with a four-way tie for first place—and we exited it with a significant points spread between the leaders. Some teams gained multiple positions in the standings—and some fell from [...]

Silt beds, deep sand, fast two-track trails—and roads so rocky you’d be sure your vehicle was on the verge of falling apart. Winds so strong that billboards in the closest town, a few hours away by dirt, blew over and blocked traffic. The inaugural [...]

With hot showers, a beautifully-decorated main events tent, views of the fantastic Nevada desert, and a wonderful meal prepared by Michelin-star chef Drew Deckman, it would be hard to imagine a better place to start the rally. […]

“If it was easy, everyone would do it” – Emily Miller Navigation rallies aren’t easy. Once you put aside the difficulties of living out of your vehicle in the desert for a week, tackling technical off-road obstacles, and inevitable vehicle issues; you’re still in [...]

Today marked inspection day, set against the backdrop of stunning Lake Tahoe at the historic Valhalla Estate.  The teams were greeted with a warm welcome to make them feel a part of the growing Rebelle Rally community. […]