tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31806947906272518782024-02-06T21:27:28.206-08:00Adventures in the DesertAdventures in the DesertKim Zuchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982799302742435336noreply@blogger.comBlogger84125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3180694790627251878.post-83781409521883137522015-12-30T13:24:00.001-08:002015-12-30T13:26:01.339-08:00A Short History of the Rock Point Mill SiteNevada has history, all over the place! Gold was discovered in Gold Canyon, just outside of Dayton, NV. A quartz-crushing mill site was built to process ore coming from Virginia City, also nearby, the site of the Comstock Lode, and where the "Rush to Washoe" started.<br />
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After the California Gold Rush had ended, gold was discovered in Nevada, near Virginia City. While mining gold, a huge silver deposit was found, called the Comstock Lode. <br />
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The Rock Point Mill was used to process ore coming from these mines, to extract the gold from the quartz. The original mill was built in 1861. It was powered by water from the Carson River, which ran 2,000 feet through a wooden flume, from the Rock Point Dam. <br />
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The mill burned down in 1882, and was replaced. Between 1909 and 1920, floods and more fires caused more damage. In 1920 the mill was finally dismantled and moved to Silver City. <br />
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Between 1920 and 1954, the old mill site was used as a local dump! In 1977, it was transferred to the State of Nevada, and developed as part of Dayton State Park starting in 1979. Now it sits along Highway 50, directly adjacent to the Gold Ranch Casino.<br />
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The mill had eight batteries of five stamps each, meaning it could process 40 tons of ore per day.</div>
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The old reservoir that powered the mill is now a picnic area in a grove of cottonwood trees.</div>
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For a better description from a real historian, check out <a href="http://backyardtraveler.blogspot.com/2007/04/daytons-rock-point-mill.html" target="_blank">Backyard Traveler</a>!Kim Zuchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982799302742435336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3180694790627251878.post-30550576392894310982015-12-16T12:32:00.003-08:002015-12-16T12:32:27.898-08:00DroughtNorthern Nevada and California are in the 4th year of a drought, so our lake is dry! Normally it is a shallow natural lake, 4 miles long and two miles wide, but right now there is hardly any water in Washoe Valley at all right now. <br />
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View of Washoe Lake from a distance...</div>
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Dry lakebed up close. We even have pictures of people flying kites out there!</div>
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Hopefully if we get a couple good winters, our lake will fill back up! There are 11 streams flowing into the lake, all dependent on snow melt. We need a couple years with a good snow pack in the mountains to maintain the lake. </div>
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We got a couple rainstorms over the summer and fall, and people would always ask if that helped the lake out...not at all! All that will do is make it muddy...</div>
Kim Zuchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982799302742435336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3180694790627251878.post-20770445979306893712014-08-31T12:10:00.001-07:002014-08-31T12:10:52.548-07:003 Months at Washoe Lake State ParkSo far I've survived my first 3 months at Washoe Lake! I've done 2 full moon hikes so far, helped with the Dutch Oven cooking class, staffed a booth at the fair, and staffed a booth at a youth event in Carson City. I didn't get a picture...yet...but we have a family of bobcats in the park running around!<br />
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View of Washoe Lake from the Mount Rose Highway outside of Reno. We need some water this winter so the lake doesn't dry up! (it has in the past).</div>
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The Wetlands Loop is one of our nicest walking trails (in my opinion).</div>
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We had a crazy hailstorm earlier in August that turned our sand dunes white!</div>
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We hosted a Rattlesnake Avoidance Training for dogs (and their owners) in June. If you look closely, you can see that snake's mouth is muzzled! No snakes or dogs were injured in this program....</div>
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It's been a great park to work at so far! It is a lot different from Fort Churchill, so there is still a LOT to learn! Virginia City, is just over the hill from us so I need to explore this area more. Virginia City was built when gold, and later, silver, were discovered in Nevada. Washoe Valley was settled to supply Virginia City with lumber from the Sierra Nevada, crops, and water.</div>
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Kim Zuchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982799302742435336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3180694790627251878.post-83916765105368232842014-06-07T19:38:00.000-07:002014-06-07T19:38:09.210-07:00Sometimes You Have to Leave the Desert...(part 1)...for the coast!<br />
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One of my absolute favorite places to visit, even for a night or two, is Monterey, CA. I've only been there twice, but Dave's been there a lot, and he's glad I like it! Last time we even drove the 17-mile scenic loop around Carmel...and I was brave enough to venture down to the beach alone (Dave didn't want to go) to look in tide pools before the tide came in and I got to see sea anemones for the first time, outside of an aquarium. Last time we were there, we did visit the aquarium, but this time (March 2014) we didn't. I would have gone, but Dave gets bored fast in those kind of settings, so I kind of thought it would have been a waste of money!<br />
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The reason I love it :) I've been reading books by John Steinbeck just because he mentions the place. (and he was a great author!)</div>
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Beautiful...There's part of a chapter in <i>Cannery Row</i> that spends a lot of time describing life in a tide pool. Sea anemones, hermit crabs, barnacles...it's awesome.</div>
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Anemone not covered with water, protected with pieces of sand, rock and shell. I had to look hard to figure out what these were!</div>
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Cannery Row in Monterey was full of Sardine canneries.</div>
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2nd over from the right, 3rd down, Dave's waving.</div>
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<br />Kim Zuchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982799302742435336noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3180694790627251878.post-19928035809877395362014-04-07T15:05:00.003-07:002014-04-07T15:05:45.224-07:00Nature TrailA few sights along the Nature Trail...<br />
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Kim Zuchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982799302742435336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3180694790627251878.post-86793394725466546992014-04-07T14:53:00.004-07:002014-04-07T14:53:44.017-07:00Guided ToursI've started doing guided tours of the Fort Churchill ruins, along with adobe brick-making demonstrations. April 19th will be my 2nd one. The first one had about 20 people in bad weather--cold and windy, but they seemed to have a good time! (I had fun...) Plus my boss and his girlfriend came along, along with one of our volunteers.<br />
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Making adobe bricks--stirring up the mud.</div>
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Kim Zuchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982799302742435336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3180694790627251878.post-28010166139503416542014-02-11T13:23:00.001-08:002014-02-11T13:23:08.847-08:00Carson River PhotosI live next to the Walker River, and work beside the Carson River. None of the rivers inside the Great Basin flow out to the sea. Most of them evaporate in sinks. The Carson River is no different. It starts up in the Sierra Nevada in Alpine County, CA and 184 miles later ends in the Carson Sink close to Fallon, NV. One place I really want to visit is the <a href="http://www.fws.gov/stillwater/stillwater_refuge/stillwater.html" target="_blank">Stillwater</a> National Wildlife Refuge. It's not that far away at all, but I've never managed to get there...yet! It's a wetland area branching off from the Carson River, close to where it ends.<br />
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I walked around one of the trails at Fort Churchill last night before it got dark and got some pictures of the river...<br />
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Railroad bridge above the river...</div>
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Just a few months ago the river was completely dry. It didn't start flowing again until the end of October and finally these last few days with rain and snow have added some water!</div>
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Thursday, we had presentations about planning and development and timesheet. Our field trip was Big Bend of the Colorado State Park.</div>
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They have a really nice park: lots of sand, nice tables and shade shelters, good restrooms and a campground. They are crazy in August when the River Regatta comes through--lots of dehydrated, drunk people rafting down into Arizona!</div>
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Bullhead City, AZ is across the river from Big Bend. I heard the "cheapest" house across the way is in the $2.1 million range. The most expensive is around $6 million.</div>
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<br />Kim Zuchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982799302742435336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3180694790627251878.post-88436342248278943982013-09-17T12:44:00.001-07:002013-09-17T12:44:47.096-07:00New Adventures...I haven't posted any real "adventures" for a while, mostly because we haven't been feeling that adventurous lately. Hopefully that will change once I have Saturdays off, starting in October and the weather cools off enough for us to get out and do more! Dave and I have opposite days off, which kinda limits our time out away from home unless one or both of us takes time off work!<br />
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We have gotten into the mountains a little this summer, but unfortunately, most of my hiking has been done at work and at night! We started doing night hikes in addition to full moon hikes at the park so for the summer we've been doing about two night hikes a month.<br />
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One thing I've noticed about where we live now is that to go hiking, we have to actually GO somewhere, either the 2 1/2 hours up to Lake Tahoe or into other areas because we are pretty much surrounded by farm land. There are some cool areas nearby, like Wilson Canyon, we need to explore...so hopefully soon there will be more real adventures to post!<br />
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After a little bit of online searching, we found out it is a two-tailed swallowtail butterfly! This thing was a couple inches long and really strange-looking so it stood out really well. I learned that they start out green. When they turn brown, it's time for them to go looking for somewhere to build their cocoon so they can turn into one of those huge yellow and black butterflies!Kim Zuchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982799302742435336noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3180694790627251878.post-53206291051939730292013-05-25T12:31:00.005-07:002013-05-25T12:31:50.501-07:00Moonrise Over Mason Valley<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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With a little coaxing, it made its way out the door, and was then re-located to a shady area, outside where it belongs!</div>
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Dave got this picture of a couple sitting on a telephone pole above one of the ponds at Mason Valley:<br />
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His picture was better than mine.....!<br />
Kim Zuchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982799302742435336noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3180694790627251878.post-68070329751146969812012-12-07T09:53:00.003-08:002012-12-07T09:53:45.645-08:00Fall ColorsThis post is a little late, but this year the colors along the river at the park were crazy pretty. Bright yellow cottonwood trees. I'll admit that's one thing this park has over Dead Horse Point. We're close to the river and we've got trees that actually change color in the fall. Single-leaf ash was the only deciduous tree at DHP and I don't remember them being quite this impressive.<br />
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This was taken in the picnic area. This fall, the Carson River totally dried up so we didn't have any water for a while at the park, but now it's almost full and Horse Camp actually flooded. One spring Scout Camp flooded and that's the campground that groups use the most so it hurt our visitation a lot.<br />
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Kim Zuchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982799302742435336noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3180694790627251878.post-85626903060485461412012-09-29T08:40:00.001-07:002012-09-29T08:40:08.516-07:00Civil War Hardtack<br />
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This morning I don't have to work until noon so I have the whole morning to catch up. I slept in a little (very little)...did dishes and laundry...and now I'm making some hardtack for my full moon hike tonight. <br />
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Hardtack is an unleavened bread that was used in the Civil War. Soldiers were always traveling so they needed food that would be easy to carry and not go bad. Hardtack is made from flour, salt and water, then baked "to the consistency of a brick." I found the recipe <a href="http://kenanderson.net/hardtack/recipes.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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My first batch was way too bland--I didn't add enough salt! The 2nd batch was a lot better. This will be my 3rd batch for the year and probably the last until spring so hopefully it works.<br />
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The full moon hikes start at the museum. I do a short introduction, then we head down the hill to the Officer's Quarters. At the Officer's Quarters I talk about the history of the fort and about the quarters themselves. Then we head to the barracks and then the mess hall. At the mess hall, I talk about food the soldiers would have been given, then I pass out the hardtack...after I warn people that it is really hard and to watch their teeth! Other names for it are "jawbreaker," seabiscuit," and "tooth-duller." Hm.<br />
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Anyway tonight is my last full moon hike for a while, probably until May or June so hopefully it goes well!<br />
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Kim Zuchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982799302742435336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3180694790627251878.post-47737908014494872122012-09-23T20:58:00.002-07:002012-09-23T20:58:24.113-07:00Wayne E. Kirch Wildlife Management AreaThis is where Dave worked for the summer. I hope I haven't posted these before, but I'm behind on blogging this summer and thought I'd share one of the really cool areas of Nevada I got to visit this summer!<br />
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One thing I love about Nevada is the amount of wetland areas within the Great Basin. I didn't expect so many...but the reason it's called the Great Basin is that none of the rivers flow from the basin to the ocean. Instead they create wetlands or sinks, where the water goes underground.</div>
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While I was looking at the ibis, I noticed this tarantula hawk in the flowers next to me.</div>
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I really liked this picture and wanted to share! It's a view of the Fort Churchill ruins from the Fort Churchill Road, which is part of the old Pony Express route. The mountains in the background are the Pine Nuts.</div>
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Kim Zuchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982799302742435336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3180694790627251878.post-61418496875861764672012-08-16T21:16:00.000-07:002012-08-16T21:16:32.763-07:00SunsetI love sunsets! I always have and I've always thought Vernal, UT had the best sunsets ever, but tonight's was pretty good too:<br />
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<br />Kim Zuchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982799302742435336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3180694790627251878.post-62206681580574925392012-06-16T18:08:00.000-07:002012-06-16T18:08:11.295-07:00Pony Express Re-ride.. Part 1I have to admit I was really nervous about this event. Not only was it my first one ever, the event took place just outside of the park, while other events took place <em>inside</em> the park! Also, I advertised this event to take place on the other side of the park, but at the meeting last week, I discovered it had been moved to the main side of the park, along the Fort Churchill Road. Oops! So I spent a lot of time re-advertising the new location and making and hanging flyers and signs to announce the new location!<br />
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The Pony Express re-ride happens once a year, alternating between east and west. This year, the riders took off from Sacramento, CA and headed the almost 2,000 miles towards St. Joseph, Missouri. I love the Pony Express, so as nervous as I was for this event, I was really excited for it too.<br />
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<em>National Pony Express Association members wearing the traditional "uniform."</em></div>
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I advertised the event to start at 4 p.m. with the Civil War Volunteers and Nevada Calvary kicking things off. 4 p.m. came and went, with no one showing up. The Pony Express Association members were coming back and forth, letting us know when the mail exchange was to happen, so when we got word that the rider was only 4 miles away I started moving people towards the Fort Churchill Road. Some drove, some walked the short distance through the gate outside the park.<br />
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We got word that although two riders were thrown from their horses, the riders were an hour early so instead of the mail exchange happening at 6 p.m. (as advertised) it happened around 5 p.m. I was SO worried someone would show up at 6 expecting to see the mail exchange and the programs scheduled but everyone apparently took my suggestion to show up early, as horses don't carry watches! hahaha<br />
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My pictures of the re-ride itself are at work so I will have to post those later...meanwhile, here are some others. I was asked to give a history talk about Fort Churhill and fire the cannon. After my talk, David Kittle gave a talk about the history of the Pony Express. I will post more about his speech when I post my pictures of the re-ride because I think it will have more meaning.<br />
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<em>Me, with the National Pony Express Association members!!</em></div>
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<em>A spur-of-the-moment decision was made to induct two new members into the association. I got to see a swearing-in ceremony for the first time. SO cool!</em></div>
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<em>Not the best picture of me, but I was giving a talk to about 35 people and PRAYING the cannon would go off for me! It worked and everyone was happy!</em></div>
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<em>I really like seeing people in period costumes. I did feel bad for these women dressed in such heavy clothes in this heat though!</em></div>
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<em>Another ...interesting....picture of me, but this is Richard Massey, the park's photographer.</em></div>Kim Zuchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982799302742435336noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3180694790627251878.post-31180272343084922692012-06-16T17:22:00.002-07:002012-06-16T17:39:26.181-07:00Fernley Intermediate School Special Olympics<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A while back, I got an e-mail from our region manager, Bob. He said he's not usually in the habbit of volunteering people for things, but he was talking to the person in charge of the Special Olympics at Fernley Intermediate School and my name came up. She wanted people from as many different agencies as possible to set up a booth at the Special Olympics to provide as many different opportunities for the athletes as possible. He volunteered me because I have a background in interpretation and I've also got supplies like animal skins and replicas of animal tracks and scat.<br />
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I brought a map of the Carson River Watershed and some examples of animals that live along that watershed. Bob gave me some junior ranger stickers and I handed them out to the athletes and their helpers. There were over 40 schools involved from 10 counties in Nevada. The school that came the furthest was from Hawthorne. There were over 400 athletes involved and each athlete had a student helper to take them through the games and events.<br />
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The man standing to the left is the principal of the school...cheering everyone on. I heard some of <em>the</em> most motivating speeches that day. They did an awesome job with this! Last year they only had a little over 100 participants and that grew to over 400 this year. I was impressed.</div>
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The event started with a parade, with all the athletes walking around the track holding banners that represented their school. Like any parade, they had a police, fire truck and ambulance escort complete with lights and sirens. My picture didn't quite work out but they also had a crane with the American flag and Nevada state flags represented. We started with the pledge and a performance of the National Anthem...which I couldn't hear because a couple of men standing nearby had a very loud conversation... but the rest of the experience was totally positive :)</div>
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<em>Side note: it's not a good idea to wear shorts with winter-white legs and forget your sunscreen! Very bad idea....</em></div>Kim Zuchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982799302742435336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3180694790627251878.post-20211682161883970022012-06-16T17:22:00.000-07:002012-06-16T17:22:09.604-07:00Loneliest Highway in AmericaHighway 50 is called the Loneliest Highway in America. I drove it on my trip out to visit Dave when he started his job at the Kirch Wildlife Management Area, about an hour south of Ely, NV. I decided to take the day to drive out there, starting with breakfast in Fallon and continuing through. Highway 50 goes across the middle of the state and follows a lot of the old Pony Express trail. The Pony Express to me is fasinating, even though it only lasted 18 months, from 1860 to 1861. I've got at least two posts covering the Pony Express, so that's all about it for now...except a couple pictures of an old station.<br />
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One of my first stops was an area outside of Fallon that had some rock art. I'm hoping to get out there more as soon as I can!</div>
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I missed one Pony Express station outside of Fallon, near Sand Mountain, so I made sure to stop at this one--New Pass Station. I was kind of sad to see it surrounded by chain link fence, but I know it would probably get vandalized if it wasn't protected. There is an old station between Fort Churchill and our region office. I have pictures of it at work, so I'll have to post those soon. It isn't protected with a fence, but it's so remote that to get to it you have to know about it. My previous supervisor pointed it out to me one day and I finally made the trip over to it.</div>
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<a href="http://parks.nv.gov/parks/ward-charcoal-ovens-state-historic-park/" target="_blank">Ward Charcoal Ovens</a> was the first park I went to. It's a state historic park like Fort Churchill. It also has a campground and hiking trails.</div>
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The ovens were used to produce charcoal. Nearby trees were cut down and stacked inside. They were then lit on fire and slits in the walls (visible near the bottom) were used to control the heat and speed of burning. They didn't want the wood to burn too fast, because then it would produce ash instead of charcoal. These ovens were used from 1876 through 1879 and use stopped when the available timber ran out. After they were no longer used to produce charcoal, they served as shelter for prospecters and eventually outlaws like Butch Cassidy.</div>
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A really good friend of Dave's, Allen Wooldridge, is the ranger at Ward Charcoal and <a href="http://parks.nv.gov/parks/cave-lake-state-park/" target="_blank">Cave Lake</a> State Parks. They are so close together, the same supervisors and rangers patrol both parks. Allen lives at Ward Charcoal. These are his chickens!</div>
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Allen also "bribes" local ducks to live at his pond so they clean out the algae. He has some pretty good-sized fish in there too. I wish I'd had my camera, instead of my cell phone for pictures because that area is beautiful! I don't have any pictures yet of Cave Lake but I definitely want to go back.</div>Kim Zuchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982799302742435336noreply@blogger.com0