2019 loneliest road – part 22, Great Basin Natl. Park: lucky campsite and a walk
The drive from Ely east toward this national park was so beautiful as we crossed 2 more summits and their basins. This is our first view of Mt. Wheeler, the...
2019 loneliest road – part 23, Great Basin Natl. Park: lows and highs, higher still
Today we went low and high: low into the Lehman Caves and high to Mt. Wheeler. When the area became a national monument in 1922 around the Lehman Caves, it...
2019 loneliest road – part 24, Great Basin Natl. Park: ranching, post art, water, more history, end of Hwy. 50
Great Basin National Park is just up the road from Baker, a very small town in the basin between the 2 summits. On the road to Baker, we kept seeing...
2019 four corners – part 1, Utah: an unusual campsite and a drive to match our destination
We finished our drive out of Nevada’s Great Basin toward Utah, climbing over 2 more summits and their basins until we finally made it to the Wasatch Mountains, the eastern...
2019 four corners – part 2, Utah: Cedar Breaks National Monument
The Southern Paiute called this area a word that meant “the place where the rocks are sliding down all the time.” But why do we call it “Cedar Breaks”? Such...