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<\/a><\/p>\nthis time with a rare sighting of goslings and<\/p>\n
then,<\/p>\n second try, the Smoke Creek Road to 447 and<\/p>\n up<\/p>\n to the Cali line.<\/p>\n Surprise Valley, Cedarville,<\/p>\n Cedar Pass with uncommon clarity,<\/a><\/p>\n Alturas, errands at the hardware, foods from the Holiday<\/a><\/p>\n and, sadly sighting the place little Lefty was last alive, barely, out of town.\u00a0 A year ago…<\/p>\n last time I was up there, too.\u00a0\u00a0 299 east, Cedarville again, trading books<\/p>\n for books [but not for gas] and across the causeway to pavement’s end, 8A and Nevada where, one wet March in 1967, I went slithering clueless over those high plateaux with Rick, Ernie and Ernie’s girlfriend in Rick’s father’s red Ford pickup.\u00a0 Pavement ends, Nevada begins; same as it ever was and except for Highway 140 – the “Winnemucca-to-the-Sea Highway – being punched through and paved from Adel to Denio sometime before ’72 nothing else out there’s changed since aside from what the BLM’s draconian restrictions on grazing the green desert<\/p>\n have done to the ranches.\u00a0 So, over the hills to<\/p>\n Long Valley and lunch…then instead<\/p>\n of continuing 125 east to Denio into what were back then Parts Unknown it was south<\/p>\n towards Gerlach<\/p>\n with a small detour near the upper reaches of Little High Rock Canyon to look in on<\/p>\n Denio Camp<\/p>\n and the Reservoir, all quite scenic on a quiet Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n