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Lake Tahoe, Nevada –
1980
Clunk
Goes the Wedding Bells
A story based upon a 1980 trip to
Lake Tahoe, Nevada to photograph a wedding. Full of mishap and
madcap adventure.
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Death Valley National Park,
California - 2000
Goler
Canyon / Butte Valley / Warm Springs Canyon / Death Valley
Escort of Cliff V. over the
Panamint Range of western Death Valley National Park, from
Ballarat ghost town to Furnace Creek via Goler Canyon. Includes
Barker Ranch, last holdout of the notorious Charles Manson.
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Little Petroglyph Canyon, Coso
Range, California – 2000
Coso
Range Petroglyphs
Two
trips into the forbidden lands within the China Lake Naval
Weapons Center to view the amazing petroglyphs of the ancients
who walked this way during the days when sidewinders meant snakes
instead of missiles.
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Slate
Range – Darwin Wash, South central Inyo County, California
– 2003
Long
Distance Errands: Trash, the Doc, 1800s Remi Nadeau Haul Road,
Chinese Sleeping Circles, Darwin Wash Road to Eclectic Darwin
Town
Imagine
– driving 131 miles because I forgot to put out the trash
cans for pickup ... oh well, I managed to salvage the day as best
as I could!
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Death Valley National Park –
2003
Eureka
Valley
Western
Death Valley National Park. A day trip to Eureka Valley sand
dunes in a gentle rainstorm.
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Tule Canyon, Nevada –
2003
Tule
Canyon
Esmeralda
County, Nevada. Tule Canyon, Roosevelt City, Rachfords, Senner
and Gold Point ghost towns; plus Eureka Valley in northwestern
Death Valley National Park. Includes contemporary newspaper
articles on Tule Canyon townsites.
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Silver Peak Range, Nevada -
2003
Silver
Peak, Nevada
In
May 2003, John Mc and I took a trip over into nearby Esmeralda
County, Nevada and over Oasis Summit, in the southern Silver Peak
Range; then down into Clayton Valley. On the way to Silver Peak,
we detoured north into the Silver Peak Range and visited the
extensive workings of the Mohawk Mine. After Visiting the Mohawk,
we set our sights on the interesting little town of Silver Peak.
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Inyo Range, California - 2003
Along
the Inyos via Harkless, Papoose and Badger Flats
On
June 27th, 2003, my wife, my two dogs and myself took
a little daytime jaunt along the spine of the Inyo Range in
search for a picnic, scenery and adventure.
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Death Valley National Park -
2004
Death
Valley Flashfloods of 2004
In
August of 2004, I was invited by Death Valley National Park to
chronicle the lethal flashflood that hit Furnace Creek area of
Death Valley National Park, inflicting destruction to structures,
roads, vehicles and people's lives. This page has news reports
and my account and photos that I took during my one day visit to
the park.
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Tule
Canyon / Oriental Wash / Gold Mountain, Nevada – 2008
Guiding
the Old Trailmaster on the Fringes of Death Valley
What
comes in a Tacoma sandwich? An Xterra! Ride along as Graham C.
and I guide the Old Trailmaster, aka Steve Greene, around the
fringes of northernmost Death Valley in the Gold Mountain country
in Esmeralda County.
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Death Valley National Park –
2008
Western
Death Valley National Park w/Panamint Charlie Gang – May,
2008
Western
Death Valley National Park – Hunter Mountain, Hidden
Valley, The Racetrack, Lippincott Mine, Lippincott Grade. Taken
with several members of the Panamint Charlie.com Internet forum.
Off site trip account. Due to format of the 4WDTrips.net board, I
had to post this trip over four separate postings. Scroll down
through all four.
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Sonoma
Range, Nevada - 2008
Sonoma
Range Circuit
It's
late afternoon. I'm bored and have cabin fever. What to do? Take
a quick reconnoiter, of course. A small, 70 mile trip through my
new backyard in north-central Nevada!
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Sonoma
Range, Nevada – February, 2009
Sonoma
Range Circuit Part 2
Graham
C. came to visit for a week. It's late into his first day in
Winnemucca. Where to go for a quick appetizer to what
north-central Nevada has to offer? A quick circumnavigation of
the Sonoma Range, of course!
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Adelaide, Nevada –
February, 2009
Out
and About Near Winnemucca, Nevada: What's in a Name? The Ghost
Towns of Gold Run / Adelaide and a Railroad that Ran To Them –
Graham C. and I Reconnoiter Along the Railroad – February
18, 2009
Graham C. and I head across to
the east side of the Sonoma Range to visit the ghost town of
Adelaide and explore the railroad that ran to it.
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The
Humboldt Range, Northwestern Nevada – April, 2009
Humboldt
Reconnoiter
My
friend, Bill B., DesertJK and his wife, converge on the lofty
Humboldt Range in search of history and scenery. The range
delivered on both counts.
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Lone Pine,
California 2003-2006
Swansea
to Cerro Gordo Photo Essay
This
time I kept my literary mouth shut and let my camera do the
talking. A photo essay of all my travels over the Swansea to
Cerro Gordo trail over the years – alone and with others.
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Northeastern
Humboldt County, Nevada
Golden
Leaves and Blue Chimney Tour:
Backyard Winnemucca Sunday
Afternoon
An
early fall tour of Paradise, the Hinkey Summit area of the Santa
Rosa Range; a trip over into the Little Humboldt River country at
Chimney Reservoir; then fished off with a drive through Eden.
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South
of Winnemucca
A
“Get Out of the House for a Couple Hours” Kind of Day
Sonoma Canyon, Dun
Glen Summit south of Winnemucca.
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South
of Winnemucca
45
Minutes on the Way Home
You know those roads you see and
think “some day I'll take that and see where it goes”?
I did and tried it on the way home from work.
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Multi-Day
Trips
By Myself or With Others
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Central Nevada –
1984
Ione
Interlude: Adventures of a Mad Popsickle
Originally written
for Nevada Magazine during the mid-1980s and never published,
this account chronicles my winter adventures in the central
Nevada region and the ghosts of Ione, Berlin, Union and
Grantsville.
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Central Nevada –
Summer, 1984
Shooting
the Rapids of the Twinn River the Hard Way
Originally written
for Nevada Magazine and published in highly paraphrased form,
this account chronicles getting caught in a raging flash flood in
the Twinn River southeast of Austin, Nevada during the summer of
1984.
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Death
Valley National Park - 1997
Panamint
City Ghost Town - 1997
Western
Death Valley National Park. An overnight trip to the wild and
wooley 1870s hell-roaring camp of Panamint City by Alan Patera
and two others in April 1997. It was my first backpacking trip in
more than a decade and I was ill prepared. But it was a lot of
fun and I got to see a bit of history that I always wanted to
see.
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Death
Valley National Park-Eastern Nevada-Central Nevada - 1999
Trip
1999
Author/Researcher
Alan Patera and I take more than a week to explore ghost towns
and mining camps in the eastern Death Valley region; then travel
through a maze of historic sites and ghost towns in the southern,
southeastern and central parts of Nevada.
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Death
Valley National Park-Nevada Triangle – 2000
Travels
with Lew Shorb – the Nevada Triangle
We
explore the Nevada Triangle of Death Valley National Park –
Bullfrog, Gold Bar, Sarcobatus Flat, Phinney Canyon, the
Grapevine Range, Strozzi Ranch, the Las Vegas & Tonopah
Railroad and the Happy Hooligan Mine.
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Death
Valley National Park – 2000
Trip
2000
Three
day trip with author/researchers Alan Patera and Alan Hensher
into Death Valley. Sites visited are: the Inyo Mine, Schwab ghost
town in California; State Line ghost town, Oriental (Old Camp),
Tokop in Nevada.
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Reilly
& Ballarat, California - 2000
Reilly
Ghost Town Archaeological Study
Reilly
ghost town site, in Panamint Valley west of Ballarat, was the
scene of an archaeological study. Includes the Wildrose Charcoal
Kilns in Wildrose Canyon, plus Mahogany Flat at the crest of the
Panamint Range.
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Nevada-Oregon-Idaho
- 2001
Trip
2001
An
eleven day trip wandering through the ghost towns and sagebrush
of northern Nevada and southwestern Idaho. Sites visited include:
Stillwater, White Cloud City, Unionville, Midas, Paradise Valley,
Spring City, Buckskin, National, Rio Tinto, Patsville, Aura,
Cornucopia, Tuscaurora, Dinner Station, Metropolis, Jarbidge in
Nevada; along with Delamar and Silver City in Idaho.
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Greenwater
& Willow Creek, Death Valley National Park, California –
2002
Greenwater
& Vicinity
A
three day / two night trip to the ghost of the once wild 1906
copper boomtown of Greenwater in eastern Death Valley National
Park. Includes Greenwater (both Kunze and Ramsey sites), Furnace,
Gold Valley and Willow Creek.
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Central
Nevada - 2006
Trip
2006
My
buddy Graham C. and I take a quick, 3-day Memorial Day trip
through north-central Nye County ghost towns of Ione, Grantsville
and Belmont. Memorial Day is the traditional start of summer, but
heavy snowfall the first two days out told us winter still had
central Nevada in its grip!
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Western
Death Valley National Park – 2007
Trip
2007-A: Lost Burro / Racetrack / Lippincott / Saline Valley /
Steele Pass
Just
had the very extensive and expensive 90,000 mile service on my
Tacoma done and nearly $1,000 of new B.F. Goodrich All Terrain
T/As spooned on as well. Tom Harvey posted on the Panamint
Charlie Internet forum that he wanted to do Lippincott and Steele
Pass in his Land Rover, but wanted some company to help him guide
his expensive vehicle through the tight squeeze and dry falls of
DeDeckera Canyon. I bit. Graham C. bit also. A fast but fun trip.
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Eastern
California-Western Nevada - 2007
Trip
2007: Glass Mountain Traverse / Pizona / Truman Meadows
High
gas prices, limited time and funds, what to do? Take a close look
at your own backyard, of course! My buddy, Graham C. and I do
just that and find plenty of new trails, good times and wide open
countryside to explore within 60 miles of home.
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Jarbidge,
Nevada - 2007
Trip
2007: Jumping from the Frying Pan into the Fire –
Evacuation From Jarbidge, Nevada
First,
the Inyo Complex Fire nearly torched my home. A week later, the
Murphy Complex Fire chased my wife, parents and I out of
Jarbidge, Nevada. And in between were the Thompson, Tungsten,
US93 Complex and Telegraph Hill Fires. Talk about burning rubber!
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North
of Winnemucca – June, 2009
Trip
2009C-1
Graham
C., Gordon G. (aka “DesertJK”) and I venture forth
into the Santa Rosa District of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National
Forest north of Winnemucca. We cover such places as Hardscrabble,
Bullion, Buttermilk Meadows, Spring City, Hinkey Summit, Lye
Creek and Buckskin Mountain on our two-day, one night romp.
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