Up and Over to the other…

The other land, that is…

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At 10:00 A.M. on the Monday 680 was pretty crowded, but 80 was easy all the way to Truckee…

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89 to Sierraville was a mess of traffic and construction; it all opened out after that. No restrooms at Hallelujah Junction so I stopped just after turning at Doyle for lunch, a pee and a conversation with a beekeeper, then on up the desert;

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California was dry but this was dryer…the koi pond almost empty [good thing the koi clocked out a couple of years ago, otherwise they’d be SAAD]…unload, collapse, and a quiet night…lots of traffic [six or eight cars, anyway] over there on 447 in the dark…

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Next day, bright and shiny and sore [residually assaulted by salt from the weekend’s festivities], I inspect the environs nonetheless;

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After lunch, unloading paintings, the daunting task of inventorying the 238 things already here, let alone documenting said inventory, looms large…giving it up I gather supplies for Wednesday and walk, sorefooted, to the chairs…

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That night, with maps, contemplating Wednesday’s Great Circle;

From Wall Spring east, and across the desert to Cholona Siding.
From Cholona to the High Road and east to Jungo.
From Jungo north on Bottle Creek Ranch Road to Hwy 140.
Hwy 140 east to Hwy 95.
Hwy 95 north to 14 miles past McDermitt [gas in McDermitt], then dirt road east to old ranch at base of Jackson Creek Summit; document apple orchard.
West from old ranch across Hwy to Oregon Canyon road.
Oregon Canyon Road north to Whitehorse Ranch Road.
Whitehorse Ranch Road west to Denio-Fields Road.
South on Denio-Fields Road to Denio Junction [may get gas]
From Denio Junction west on Hwy 140 [may stop at Bog Hot Springs] to 8A [may go look at Big Springs Reservoir if time permits].
Turn for Vya, 45 miles southwest on 8A.
At Vya either turn south on 34 to Gerlach and home or continue west to Cedarville, then south to 447 and Wall Spring.

…and so up most early;

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Next; the “Great Circle”, really.

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4 thoughts on “Up and Over to the other…

  1. Kirk Moore

    Ah….I wish I was on the Great Circle with you, but I was busy shooting canyons and urban mountains on the Circle Line tour (by boat) around Manhattan. We will have to compare images soon, although I bet yours are much more horizontal than mine.

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  2. Janet Whitchurch

    Gosh and it seems like not that long ago it was all moist and lush out there….or am i remembering wrong?

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    1. mikesmoore Post author

      Yeah, a couple of years back all the koipond koi mysteriously perished; discovered by Twisto it remains a mystery…all I could figure is that maybe the new bag of food was poison, but never found any complaints online to corroborate. Our artesian’s been dropping for years, exacerbated by many dry winters, but this was the first time I’d seen the koi pond that far down. There are still four [feral] koi in the lunch pond, which has more reliable flow…so far, anyway.

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