Indian Valley Reservoir, BLM; The Truck Goes Boom
Trip Date: March 7, 2022
Ken had put out the word that it was time to get away, even for a night or two at a nearby destination. As it was still early in the year, we went through our list of close by destinations and settled on Walker Ridge, off Highway 20, heading towards the South end of Indian…
Black Rock Desert
Trip Date: November 10, 2021
This trip came together in a heartbeat. For some time, I had been thinking about a hot spring Tom, Bill, Steve, and I had been to up by Soldier Meadows a few years back. It just had been calling me to come and visit again, especially at this time of year; Fall colors, Fall temperatures,…
Grand Canyon Parashant National Monument, National Park Service
Trip Date: April 19, 2021
This trip was some 45 years in the making. In high school, or maybe even grade school, I became interested in the SouthWest. Maybe it was the cowboy and Indian stories and TV shows I watched as a kid, and certainly an early trip to the Grand Canyon with my parents cemented the area in…
Panoche Hills, Bureau of Land Management
Trip Date: March 28, 2019
This was the 4th consecutive weekend, every weekend in March, I was gone somewhere. Kristen and I went to San Diego for the first one, Mike and I went to the property for the second one, we were in the Mojave last weekend, and this was Rhino and Kevin’s retirement gathering. Reinhard, Kevin, Tom, Mike,…
Fiske Creek Road, Bureau of Land Management
Trip Date: February 16, 2018
So many trips are on the verge of not happening for me, for everyone, for weather, for family, for a myriad of reasons. This one was on the fence because a friend of ours, a guy we had worked with, camped, and partied with over the past 30 years or so has been fighting brain…
Black Rock Desert, Bureau of Land Management
Trip Date: May 11, 2017
We have been to the Black Rock Desert in Northwestern Nevada a number of times over the past 20 years or so and have always camped at the same spot. It is an extraordinary spot, high above the playa, almost directly opposite the “Black Rock” for which the area is named, and 20 miles or…