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<hr />
<div>== Black Rock repeaters ==<br />
<br />
Ham Radio repeaters in the Black Rock Desert area: http://cq-blackrock.org/<br />
<br />
* UHF Repeater and IRLP Node 7249<br />
o 440.175 MHz (+), PL 100.0 <br />
* VHF IRLP Node 3075<br />
o 146.7 MHz, PL 100.0<br />
o Simplex <br />
* APRS Digipeater GERLCH<br />
o 144.39 MHz simplex<br />
o Gatewayed to the Internet (APRS-IS)<br />
<br />
Friends of Black Rock<br />
<br />
* VHF Repeater<br />
o 145.23 MHz (-), PL 123.0<br />
<br />
== other repeaters == <br />
<br />
HAM RADIO OPERATOR?<br />
<br />
The following 2 Meter repeaters are the best to try in the Black Rock & Playa area. This list is not complete. Repeaters are listed in the approximate best order. The north/south orientation on Nevada’s Basin & Range topography creates major problems trying to hit repeaters to the east and west! NOTE: Repeater coverage is spotty but keep trying! Many times if you simply drive a couple of miles you’ll hit the repeater. A mobile radio will usually hit one of these but a handheld won’t! KD7YIM<br />
<br />
<table border="1"><br />
<br />
<tr><br />
<td> Repeater Location </td><br />
<td> Frequency </td><br />
<td> PL </td><br />
<td> Comments </td><br />
</tr><br />
<br />
<tr><br />
<td> Virginia Peak </td><br />
<td> 147.030 </td><br />
<td> 123 </td><br />
<td> About 5 miles SW of Nixon </td><br />
</tr><br />
<br />
<tr><br />
<td> Toulon </td><br />
<td> 147.390 </td><br />
<td> 123 </td><br />
<td> Near Lovelock, SE of the playa. Normally linked to Ophir,(146.610/123), link down as of 5/08, Remote repeater with few users! </td><br />
</tr><br />
<br />
<tr><br />
<td> Virginia Peak </td><br />
<td> 147.180 </td><br />
<td> 107.2 </td><br />
<td> About 5 miles SW of Nixon. Note PL change. </td><br />
</tr><br />
<br />
<tr><br />
<td> 2 Meter call </td><br />
<td> 146.52 </td><br />
<td> n/a </td><br />
<td> Some users leave their radios set on this frequency </td><br />
</tr><br />
<br />
</table><br />
<br />
== Stratofox ==<br />
<br />
The [[Stratofox|Stratofox Aerospace Tracking Team]] maintains an [http://www.stratofox.org/twiki/bin/view/BlackRock/AmateurRadioBandPlan Amateur Radio Band Plan for the Black Rock Desert], a project which started in 2001 due to increasing use of Amateur Radio by rocketry groups at Black Rock. Unlike in metro areas where band plans are used to manage frequency congestion, at Black Rock it also has the role of allowing Hams to know what frequencies to call for assistance if they believe other groups are in the area. Users of the area are encouraged to use it, and contribute updates to keep it current. Stratofox maintains an e-mail list for discussion of the band plan. Note that it is not in effect during the Burning Man event - the radio environment changes so much at that time.<br />
<br />
The following information was provided by David Book, 12/28/2007:<br />
<blockquote><br />
I haven't used 70 CM up there but my repeater directory says theres a<br />
repeater at Gerlach (Maybe at Fox mtn? I've heard it's down....) on<br />
441.7000/ pl 146.2. There's a large Washoe county repeater on Fox Mtn. <br />
<br />
I normally use 2 meter repeaters on Virginia Peak (near Nixon) at<br />
146.030/pl 123 or Toulon (near Lovelock) at 147.390/ pl 123 when in the<br />
Black Rock. The Virginia Peak repeater gets used by folks in Reno and the<br />
Lovelock repeater is linked to the Reno area through another repeater at<br />
Ophir, near Virginia City. Look at a shaded relief map and you'll see the<br />
problem, the mtn ranges all run north and south so line of sight isn't so<br />
good either direction. <br />
<br />
Both of these repeaters are spotty but often go in & out over the course of<br />
a few miles so keep trying. I can't hit them with a handheld, even with a<br />
mag-mount antennna but can with a mobile & a mag mount. I've also been<br />
told you can hit a Susanville repeater up there but have never had any<br />
luck. You'll see the issues if you look at a CA/NV/Oregon/Idaho map &<br />
start drawing circles, there's just not much around there.<br />
<br />
Also, note that there's a Fox MOUNTAIN in the Granites NW of Gerlach and a<br />
Fox RANGE to the SW of Gerlach...<br />
<br />
Otherwise, it's upgrade to the General, easier since they dropped the code<br />
requirement.<br />
<br />
David, KD7YIM<br />
</blockquote></div>Bchttps://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=Ham_Radio&diff=5047Ham Radio2012-12-03T06:45:54Z<p>Bc: in the area</p>
<hr />
<div>== Black Rock repeaters ==<br />
<br />
Ham Radio repeaters in the Black Rock area: http://cq-blackrock.org/<br />
<br />
* UHF Repeater and IRLP Node 7249<br />
o 440.175 MHz (+), PL 100.0 <br />
* VHF IRLP Node 3075<br />
o 146.7 MHz, PL 100.0<br />
o Simplex <br />
* APRS Digipeater GERLCH<br />
o 144.39 MHz simplex<br />
o Gatewayed to the Internet (APRS-IS)<br />
<br />
Friends of Black Rock<br />
<br />
* VHF Repeater<br />
o 145.23 MHz (-), PL 123.0<br />
<br />
== other repeaters == <br />
<br />
HAM RADIO OPERATOR?<br />
<br />
The following 2 Meter repeaters are the best to try in the Black Rock & Playa area. This list is not complete. Repeaters are listed in the approximate best order. The north/south orientation on Nevada’s Basin & Range topography creates major problems trying to hit repeaters to the east and west! NOTE: Repeater coverage is spotty but keep trying! Many times if you simply drive a couple of miles you’ll hit the repeater. A mobile radio will usually hit one of these but a handheld won’t! KD7YIM<br />
<br />
<table border="1"><br />
<br />
<tr><br />
<td> Repeater Location </td><br />
<td> Frequency </td><br />
<td> PL </td><br />
<td> Comments </td><br />
</tr><br />
<br />
<tr><br />
<td> Virginia Peak </td><br />
<td> 147.030 </td><br />
<td> 123 </td><br />
<td> About 5 miles SW of Nixon </td><br />
</tr><br />
<br />
<tr><br />
<td> Toulon </td><br />
<td> 147.390 </td><br />
<td> 123 </td><br />
<td> Near Lovelock, SE of the playa. Normally linked to Ophir,(146.610/123), link down as of 5/08, Remote repeater with few users! </td><br />
</tr><br />
<br />
<tr><br />
<td> Virginia Peak </td><br />
<td> 147.180 </td><br />
<td> 107.2 </td><br />
<td> About 5 miles SW of Nixon. Note PL change. </td><br />
</tr><br />
<br />
<tr><br />
<td> 2 Meter call </td><br />
<td> 146.52 </td><br />
<td> n/a </td><br />
<td> Some users leave their radios set on this frequency </td><br />
</tr><br />
<br />
</table><br />
<br />
== Stratofox ==<br />
<br />
The [[Stratofox|Stratofox Aerospace Tracking Team]] maintains an [http://www.stratofox.org/twiki/bin/view/BlackRock/AmateurRadioBandPlan Amateur Radio Band Plan for the Black Rock Desert], a project which started in 2001 due to increasing use of Amateur Radio by rocketry groups at Black Rock. Unlike in metro areas where band plans are used to manage frequency congestion, at Black Rock it also has the role of allowing Hams to know what frequencies to call for assistance if they believe other groups are in the area. Users of the area are encouraged to use it, and contribute updates to keep it current. Stratofox maintains an e-mail list for discussion of the band plan. Note that it is not in effect during the Burning Man event - the radio environment changes so much at that time.<br />
<br />
The following information was provided by David Book, 12/28/2007:<br />
<blockquote><br />
I haven't used 70 CM up there but my repeater directory says theres a<br />
repeater at Gerlach (Maybe at Fox mtn? I've heard it's down....) on<br />
441.7000/ pl 146.2. There's a large Washoe county repeater on Fox Mtn. <br />
<br />
I normally use 2 meter repeaters on Virginia Peak (near Nixon) at<br />
146.030/pl 123 or Toulon (near Lovelock) at 147.390/ pl 123 when in the<br />
Black Rock. The Virginia Peak repeater gets used by folks in Reno and the<br />
Lovelock repeater is linked to the Reno area through another repeater at<br />
Ophir, near Virginia City. Look at a shaded relief map and you'll see the<br />
problem, the mtn ranges all run north and south so line of sight isn't so<br />
good either direction. <br />
<br />
Both of these repeaters are spotty but often go in & out over the course of<br />
a few miles so keep trying. I can't hit them with a handheld, even with a<br />
mag-mount antennna but can with a mobile & a mag mount. I've also been<br />
told you can hit a Susanville repeater up there but have never had any<br />
luck. You'll see the issues if you look at a CA/NV/Oregon/Idaho map &<br />
start drawing circles, there's just not much around there.<br />
<br />
Also, note that there's a Fox MOUNTAIN in the Granites NW of Gerlach and a<br />
Fox RANGE to the SW of Gerlach...<br />
<br />
Otherwise, it's upgrade to the General, easier since they dropped the code<br />
requirement.<br />
<br />
David, KD7YIM<br />
</blockquote></div>Bchttps://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=Ham_Radio&diff=5046Ham Radio2012-12-03T06:44:34Z<p>Bc: s/New//</p>
<hr />
<div>== Black Rock repeaters ==<br />
<br />
Ham Radio repeaters in Black Rock: http://cq-blackrock.org/<br />
<br />
* UHF Repeater and IRLP Node 7249<br />
o 440.175 MHz (+), PL 100.0 <br />
* VHF IRLP Node 3075<br />
o 146.7 MHz, PL 100.0<br />
o Simplex <br />
* APRS Digipeater GERLCH<br />
o 144.39 MHz simplex<br />
o Gatewayed to the Internet (APRS-IS)<br />
<br />
Friends of Black Rock<br />
<br />
* VHF Repeater<br />
o 145.23 MHz (-), PL 123.0<br />
<br />
== other repeaters == <br />
<br />
HAM RADIO OPERATOR?<br />
<br />
The following 2 Meter repeaters are the best to try in the Black Rock & Playa area. This list is not complete. Repeaters are listed in the approximate best order. The north/south orientation on Nevada’s Basin & Range topography creates major problems trying to hit repeaters to the east and west! NOTE: Repeater coverage is spotty but keep trying! Many times if you simply drive a couple of miles you’ll hit the repeater. A mobile radio will usually hit one of these but a handheld won’t! KD7YIM<br />
<br />
<table border="1"><br />
<br />
<tr><br />
<td> Repeater Location </td><br />
<td> Frequency </td><br />
<td> PL </td><br />
<td> Comments </td><br />
</tr><br />
<br />
<tr><br />
<td> Virginia Peak </td><br />
<td> 147.030 </td><br />
<td> 123 </td><br />
<td> About 5 miles SW of Nixon </td><br />
</tr><br />
<br />
<tr><br />
<td> Toulon </td><br />
<td> 147.390 </td><br />
<td> 123 </td><br />
<td> Near Lovelock, SE of the playa. Normally linked to Ophir,(146.610/123), link down as of 5/08, Remote repeater with few users! </td><br />
</tr><br />
<br />
<tr><br />
<td> Virginia Peak </td><br />
<td> 147.180 </td><br />
<td> 107.2 </td><br />
<td> About 5 miles SW of Nixon. Note PL change. </td><br />
</tr><br />
<br />
<tr><br />
<td> 2 Meter call </td><br />
<td> 146.52 </td><br />
<td> n/a </td><br />
<td> Some users leave their radios set on this frequency </td><br />
</tr><br />
<br />
</table><br />
<br />
== Stratofox ==<br />
<br />
The [[Stratofox|Stratofox Aerospace Tracking Team]] maintains an [http://www.stratofox.org/twiki/bin/view/BlackRock/AmateurRadioBandPlan Amateur Radio Band Plan for the Black Rock Desert], a project which started in 2001 due to increasing use of Amateur Radio by rocketry groups at Black Rock. Unlike in metro areas where band plans are used to manage frequency congestion, at Black Rock it also has the role of allowing Hams to know what frequencies to call for assistance if they believe other groups are in the area. Users of the area are encouraged to use it, and contribute updates to keep it current. Stratofox maintains an e-mail list for discussion of the band plan. Note that it is not in effect during the Burning Man event - the radio environment changes so much at that time.<br />
<br />
The following information was provided by David Book, 12/28/2007:<br />
<blockquote><br />
I haven't used 70 CM up there but my repeater directory says theres a<br />
repeater at Gerlach (Maybe at Fox mtn? I've heard it's down....) on<br />
441.7000/ pl 146.2. There's a large Washoe county repeater on Fox Mtn. <br />
<br />
I normally use 2 meter repeaters on Virginia Peak (near Nixon) at<br />
146.030/pl 123 or Toulon (near Lovelock) at 147.390/ pl 123 when in the<br />
Black Rock. The Virginia Peak repeater gets used by folks in Reno and the<br />
Lovelock repeater is linked to the Reno area through another repeater at<br />
Ophir, near Virginia City. Look at a shaded relief map and you'll see the<br />
problem, the mtn ranges all run north and south so line of sight isn't so<br />
good either direction. <br />
<br />
Both of these repeaters are spotty but often go in & out over the course of<br />
a few miles so keep trying. I can't hit them with a handheld, even with a<br />
mag-mount antennna but can with a mobile & a mag mount. I've also been<br />
told you can hit a Susanville repeater up there but have never had any<br />
luck. You'll see the issues if you look at a CA/NV/Oregon/Idaho map &<br />
start drawing circles, there's just not much around there.<br />
<br />
Also, note that there's a Fox MOUNTAIN in the Granites NW of Gerlach and a<br />
Fox RANGE to the SW of Gerlach...<br />
<br />
Otherwise, it's upgrade to the General, easier since they dropped the code<br />
requirement.<br />
<br />
David, KD7YIM<br />
</blockquote></div>Bchttps://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=Ham_Radio&diff=5045Ham Radio2012-12-03T06:34:54Z<p>Bc: undo</p>
<hr />
<div>== Black Rock repeaters ==<br />
<br />
New Ham Radio repeaters in Black Rock: http://cq-blackrock.org/<br />
<br />
* UHF Repeater and IRLP Node 7249<br />
o 440.175 MHz (+), PL 100.0 <br />
* VHF IRLP Node 3075<br />
o 146.7 MHz, PL 100.0<br />
o Simplex <br />
* APRS Digipeater GERLCH<br />
o 144.39 MHz simplex<br />
o Gatewayed to the Internet (APRS-IS)<br />
<br />
Friends of Black Rock<br />
<br />
* VHF Repeater<br />
o 145.23 MHz (-), PL 123.0<br />
<br />
== other repeaters == <br />
<br />
HAM RADIO OPERATOR?<br />
<br />
The following 2 Meter repeaters are the best to try in the Black Rock & Playa area. This list is not complete. Repeaters are listed in the approximate best order. The north/south orientation on Nevada’s Basin & Range topography creates major problems trying to hit repeaters to the east and west! NOTE: Repeater coverage is spotty but keep trying! Many times if you simply drive a couple of miles you’ll hit the repeater. A mobile radio will usually hit one of these but a handheld won’t! KD7YIM<br />
<br />
<table border="1"><br />
<br />
<tr><br />
<td> Repeater Location </td><br />
<td> Frequency </td><br />
<td> PL </td><br />
<td> Comments </td><br />
</tr><br />
<br />
<tr><br />
<td> Virginia Peak </td><br />
<td> 147.030 </td><br />
<td> 123 </td><br />
<td> About 5 miles SW of Nixon </td><br />
</tr><br />
<br />
<tr><br />
<td> Toulon </td><br />
<td> 147.390 </td><br />
<td> 123 </td><br />
<td> Near Lovelock, SE of the playa. Normally linked to Ophir,(146.610/123), link down as of 5/08, Remote repeater with few users! </td><br />
</tr><br />
<br />
<tr><br />
<td> Virginia Peak </td><br />
<td> 147.180 </td><br />
<td> 107.2 </td><br />
<td> About 5 miles SW of Nixon. Note PL change. </td><br />
</tr><br />
<br />
<tr><br />
<td> 2 Meter call </td><br />
<td> 146.52 </td><br />
<td> n/a </td><br />
<td> Some users leave their radios set on this frequency </td><br />
</tr><br />
<br />
</table><br />
<br />
== Stratofox ==<br />
<br />
The [[Stratofox|Stratofox Aerospace Tracking Team]] maintains an [http://www.stratofox.org/twiki/bin/view/BlackRock/AmateurRadioBandPlan Amateur Radio Band Plan for the Black Rock Desert], a project which started in 2001 due to increasing use of Amateur Radio by rocketry groups at Black Rock. Unlike in metro areas where band plans are used to manage frequency congestion, at Black Rock it also has the role of allowing Hams to know what frequencies to call for assistance if they believe other groups are in the area. Users of the area are encouraged to use it, and contribute updates to keep it current. Stratofox maintains an e-mail list for discussion of the band plan. Note that it is not in effect during the Burning Man event - the radio environment changes so much at that time.<br />
<br />
The following information was provided by David Book, 12/28/2007:<br />
<blockquote><br />
I haven't used 70 CM up there but my repeater directory says theres a<br />
repeater at Gerlach (Maybe at Fox mtn? I've heard it's down....) on<br />
441.7000/ pl 146.2. There's a large Washoe county repeater on Fox Mtn. <br />
<br />
I normally use 2 meter repeaters on Virginia Peak (near Nixon) at<br />
146.030/pl 123 or Toulon (near Lovelock) at 147.390/ pl 123 when in the<br />
Black Rock. The Virginia Peak repeater gets used by folks in Reno and the<br />
Lovelock repeater is linked to the Reno area through another repeater at<br />
Ophir, near Virginia City. Look at a shaded relief map and you'll see the<br />
problem, the mtn ranges all run north and south so line of sight isn't so<br />
good either direction. <br />
<br />
Both of these repeaters are spotty but often go in & out over the course of<br />
a few miles so keep trying. I can't hit them with a handheld, even with a<br />
mag-mount antennna but can with a mobile & a mag mount. I've also been<br />
told you can hit a Susanville repeater up there but have never had any<br />
luck. You'll see the issues if you look at a CA/NV/Oregon/Idaho map &<br />
start drawing circles, there's just not much around there.<br />
<br />
Also, note that there's a Fox MOUNTAIN in the Granites NW of Gerlach and a<br />
Fox RANGE to the SW of Gerlach...<br />
<br />
Otherwise, it's upgrade to the General, easier since they dropped the code<br />
requirement.<br />
<br />
David, KD7YIM<br />
</blockquote></div>Bchttps://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=Ham_Radio&diff=5044Ham Radio2012-12-03T06:00:09Z<p>Bc: http://cq-blackrock.org/freqs.php</p>
<hr />
<div>== Black Rock repeaters ==<br />
<br />
New Ham Radio repeaters in Black Rock: http://cq-blackrock.org/ http://cq-blackrock.org/freqs.php<br />
<br />
* UHF Repeater and IRLP Node 7249<br />
o 440.175 MHz (+), PL 100.0 <br />
* VHF IRLP Node 3075<br />
o 146.7 MHz, PL 100.0<br />
o Simplex <br />
* APRS Digipeater GERLCH<br />
o 144.39 MHz simplex<br />
o Gatewayed to the Internet (APRS-IS)<br />
<br />
Friends of Black Rock<br />
<br />
* VHF Repeater<br />
o 145.23 MHz (-), PL 123.0<br />
<br />
== other repeaters == <br />
<br />
HAM RADIO OPERATOR?<br />
<br />
The following 2 Meter repeaters are the best to try in the Black Rock & Playa area. This list is not complete. Repeaters are listed in the approximate best order. The north/south orientation on Nevada’s Basin & Range topography creates major problems trying to hit repeaters to the east and west! NOTE: Repeater coverage is spotty but keep trying! Many times if you simply drive a couple of miles you’ll hit the repeater. A mobile radio will usually hit one of these but a handheld won’t! KD7YIM<br />
<br />
<table border="1"><br />
<br />
<tr><br />
<td> Repeater Location </td><br />
<td> Frequency </td><br />
<td> PL </td><br />
<td> Comments </td><br />
</tr><br />
<br />
<tr><br />
<td> Virginia Peak </td><br />
<td> 147.030 </td><br />
<td> 123 </td><br />
<td> About 5 miles SW of Nixon </td><br />
</tr><br />
<br />
<tr><br />
<td> Toulon </td><br />
<td> 147.390 </td><br />
<td> 123 </td><br />
<td> Near Lovelock, SE of the playa. Normally linked to Ophir,(146.610/123), link down as of 5/08, Remote repeater with few users! </td><br />
</tr><br />
<br />
<tr><br />
<td> Virginia Peak </td><br />
<td> 147.180 </td><br />
<td> 107.2 </td><br />
<td> About 5 miles SW of Nixon. Note PL change. </td><br />
</tr><br />
<br />
<tr><br />
<td> 2 Meter call </td><br />
<td> 146.52 </td><br />
<td> n/a </td><br />
<td> Some users leave their radios set on this frequency </td><br />
</tr><br />
<br />
</table><br />
<br />
== Stratofox ==<br />
<br />
The [[Stratofox|Stratofox Aerospace Tracking Team]] maintains an [http://www.stratofox.org/twiki/bin/view/BlackRock/AmateurRadioBandPlan Amateur Radio Band Plan for the Black Rock Desert], a project which started in 2001 due to increasing use of Amateur Radio by rocketry groups at Black Rock. Unlike in metro areas where band plans are used to manage frequency congestion, at Black Rock it also has the role of allowing Hams to know what frequencies to call for assistance if they believe other groups are in the area. Users of the area are encouraged to use it, and contribute updates to keep it current. Stratofox maintains an e-mail list for discussion of the band plan. Note that it is not in effect during the Burning Man event - the radio environment changes so much at that time.<br />
<br />
The following information was provided by David Book, 12/28/2007:<br />
<blockquote><br />
I haven't used 70 CM up there but my repeater directory says theres a<br />
repeater at Gerlach (Maybe at Fox mtn? I've heard it's down....) on<br />
441.7000/ pl 146.2. There's a large Washoe county repeater on Fox Mtn. <br />
<br />
I normally use 2 meter repeaters on Virginia Peak (near Nixon) at<br />
146.030/pl 123 or Toulon (near Lovelock) at 147.390/ pl 123 when in the<br />
Black Rock. The Virginia Peak repeater gets used by folks in Reno and the<br />
Lovelock repeater is linked to the Reno area through another repeater at<br />
Ophir, near Virginia City. Look at a shaded relief map and you'll see the<br />
problem, the mtn ranges all run north and south so line of sight isn't so<br />
good either direction. <br />
<br />
Both of these repeaters are spotty but often go in & out over the course of<br />
a few miles so keep trying. I can't hit them with a handheld, even with a<br />
mag-mount antennna but can with a mobile & a mag mount. I've also been<br />
told you can hit a Susanville repeater up there but have never had any<br />
luck. You'll see the issues if you look at a CA/NV/Oregon/Idaho map &<br />
start drawing circles, there's just not much around there.<br />
<br />
Also, note that there's a Fox MOUNTAIN in the Granites NW of Gerlach and a<br />
Fox RANGE to the SW of Gerlach...<br />
<br />
Otherwise, it's upgrade to the General, easier since they dropped the code<br />
requirement.<br />
<br />
David, KD7YIM<br />
</blockquote></div>Bchttps://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=Double_Hot_Spring&diff=4967Double Hot Spring2012-07-14T19:15:29Z<p>Bc: added: * [http://www.flickr.com/photos/sonusexmachina/7553505762/in/photostream/ flickr.com/photos/sonusexmachina/7553505762/in/photostream/] 2012-07-06</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Image:SW2006-818-06040955--Black-Rock-Desert--Double-Hot-Springs.jpg|right|thumb]]<br />
<br />
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/sonusexmachina/7553505762/in/photostream/ flickr.com/photos/sonusexmachina/7553505762/in/photostream/] 2012-07-06<br />
<br />
* [http://www.soak.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=Nevada;action=display;num=1095044346 soak.net Nevada 1095044346] Sept. 2004<br />
<br />
* [http://www.nbmg.unr.edu/geothermal/site.php?sid=Double%20Hot%20Springs-Black%20Rock%20Hot%20Springs nbmg.unr.edu/geothermal]<br />
<br />
* [http://www.indiancanyon.org/places/places1.html http://www.indiancanyon.org/places/places1.html]<br />
<br />
* [http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=41.05077,-119.0275&spn=0.003193,0.005445&t=h&z=18&om=1 google map]<br />
* [http://maps.yahoo.com/beta/#mvt=s&trf=0&lon=-119.0275&lat=40.771665&mag=1 yahoo map]<br />
* [http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/image.aspx?T=1&S=10&Lat=41.05077&Lon=-119.0275&W=1 terraserver]<br />
<br />
http://www.allaroundnevada.com/?p=1151</div>Bchttps://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=Video&diff=4966Video2012-07-14T19:12:15Z<p>Bc: added: * http://vimeo.com/45420266 Highway 447 and 34 time-lapse, from Wadsworth to the playa, July 2012</p>
<hr />
<div>* http://vimeo.com/45420266 Highway 447 and 34 time-lapse, from Wadsworth to the playa, July 2012<br />
<br />
http://www.blinkx.com/videos/black%2520rock%2520desert<br />
<br />
[[Fly Geyser 1:geyser1.avi]]</div>Bchttps://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=Virgin_Valley&diff=4965Virgin Valley2012-07-14T19:07:03Z<p>Bc: </p>
<hr />
<div>== Opal Mining ==<br />
<br />
* http://www.royalpeacock.com/<br />
<br />
* http://backyardtraveler.blogspot.com/2007/01/exploring-in-nevadas-opal-fields.html<br />
<br />
* http://travelnevada.com/press/article/discover-your-nevada-search-for-opals-in-northern-nevadas-virgin-valley/ 2012-07-09</div>Bchttps://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=Virgin_Valley&diff=4964Virgin Valley2012-07-14T19:06:20Z<p>Bc: added http://travelnevada.com/press/article/discover-your-nevada-search-for-opals-in-northern-nevadas-virgin-valley/</p>
<hr />
<div>== Opal Mining ==<br />
<br />
* http://www.royalpeacock.com/<br />
<br />
* http://backyardtraveler.blogspot.com/2007/01/exploring-in-nevadas-opal-fields.html<br />
<br />
* http://travelnevada.com/press/article/discover-your-nevada-search-for-opals-in-northern-nevadas-virgin-valley/</div>Bchttps://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=Motion_Pictures&diff=4963Motion Pictures2012-04-14T22:26:46Z<p>Bc: </p>
<hr />
<div>== The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926) ==<br />
<br />
* http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017567/ www.imdb.com/title/tt0017567/<br />
* http://www.gchudleigh.com/blackrock.htm www.gchudleigh.com/blackrock.htm -- The Story of the Making of The Winning of Barbara Worth by Phillip I. Earl<br />
* http://www.gchudleigh.com/barbmv1926_Haviland.htm www.gchudleigh.com/barbmv1926_Haviland.htm -- Snapshots from the movie set for The Winning of Barbara Worth, 1926<br />
<br />
== Bad Day At Black Rock (1955) ==<br />
Not filmed on the Black Rock Desert, but actually filmed near Lone Pine, CA.<br />
<br />
* http://imdb.com/title/tt0047849/ imdb.com/title/tt0047849/<br />
<br />
* http://www.culturecourt.com/F/Westerns/BRock.htm www.culturecourt.com/F/Westerns/BRock.htm -- (review)<br />
<br />
== The Misfits (1961) ==<br />
Not filmed on the Black Rock Desert, but actually filmed near Dayton, NV.<br />
<br />
* http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055184/ www.imdb.com/title/tt0055184/<br />
<br />
== National Geographic Specials: The Haunted West (1973) ==<br />
<br />
* http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0844166/ www.imdb.com/title/tt0844166/<br />
* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iycLA2Hhek8 youtube.com/watch?v=iycLA2Hhek8<br />
<br />
== Far From Home (1989) ==<br />
<br />
* http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097332/ www.imdb.com/title/tt0097332/<br />
<br />
== Links ==<br />
<br />
* http://nevadafilm.com/ nevadafilm.com -- Nevada Film Office</div>Bchttps://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=Motion_Pictures&diff=4962Motion Pictures2012-04-14T22:26:19Z<p>Bc: added http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iycLA2Hhek8 (The Haunted West)</p>
<hr />
<div>== The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926) ==<br />
<br />
* http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017567/ www.imdb.com/title/tt0017567/<br />
* http://www.gchudleigh.com/blackrock.htm www.gchudleigh.com/blackrock.htm -- The Story of the Making of The Winning of Barbara Worth by Phillip I. Earl<br />
* http://www.gchudleigh.com/barbmv1926_Haviland.htm www.gchudleigh.com/barbmv1926_Haviland.htm -- Snapshots from the movie set for The Winning of Barbara Worth, 1926<br />
<br />
== Bad Day At Black Rock (1955) ==<br />
Not filmed on the Black Rock Desert, but actually filmed near Lone Pine, CA.<br />
<br />
* http://imdb.com/title/tt0047849/ imdb.com/title/tt0047849/<br />
<br />
* http://www.culturecourt.com/F/Westerns/BRock.htm www.culturecourt.com/F/Westerns/BRock.htm -- (review)<br />
<br />
== The Misfits (1961) ==<br />
Not filmed on the Black Rock Desert, but actually filmed near Dayton, NV.<br />
<br />
* http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055184/ www.imdb.com/title/tt0055184/<br />
<br />
== National Geographic Specials: The Haunted West (1973) ==<br />
<br />
* http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0844166/ www.imdb.com/title/tt0844166/<br />
* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iycLA2Hhek8<br />
<br />
== Far From Home (1989) ==<br />
<br />
* http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097332/ www.imdb.com/title/tt0097332/<br />
<br />
== Links ==<br />
<br />
* http://nevadafilm.com/ nevadafilm.com -- Nevada Film Office</div>Bchttps://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=Lava_Beds&diff=4961Lava Beds2012-04-12T01:05:42Z<p>Bc: added http://hikingnevada.blogspot.com/2008/04/lava-beds-citizens-proposed-wilderness_11.html</p>
<hr />
<div>http://www.lrrforums.com/showthread.php?13361-Oct-3-2009-Elephant-Rock-Lava-Beds<br />
<br />
http://hikingnevada.blogspot.com/2008/04/elephant-head-rock-lava-beds.html<br />
<br />
http://hikingnevada.blogspot.com/2008/04/lava-beds-citizens-proposed-wilderness_11.html<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
http://www.rgj.com/news/stories/html/2004/04/07/67965.php OLD LINK<br />
<br />
Lava Beds rest quietly, Mark Vanderhoff, RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL, 4/7/2004, <br />
<br />
...<br />
Elephant Head Rock, for example, a feature of the Lava Beds and the high point of the Sheephead Mountains, stands at just 6,283 feet. What the map doesn’t say is that Elephant Head Rock contains a natural arch that’s 40 feet across and 20 feet high.<br />
...<br />
<br />
(Alvin McLane, 69, of Reno) took a National Geographic photographer and writer to the site in 1983 for book called “America’s Hidden Corners.” <br />
...<br />
<br />
The name “Lava Beds” is a misnomer, ... consist of granitic rock ranging in age from 85 to 104 millions years. That granite is considered to be an extension of the Sierra Nevada batholith<br />
<br />
(more)</div>Bchttps://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=Lava_Beds&diff=4960Lava Beds2012-04-12T01:05:13Z<p>Bc: added http://hikingnevada.blogspot.com/2008/04/elephant-head-rock-lava-beds.html</p>
<hr />
<div>http://www.lrrforums.com/showthread.php?13361-Oct-3-2009-Elephant-Rock-Lava-Beds<br />
<br />
http://hikingnevada.blogspot.com/2008/04/elephant-head-rock-lava-beds.html<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
http://www.rgj.com/news/stories/html/2004/04/07/67965.php OLD LINK<br />
<br />
Lava Beds rest quietly, Mark Vanderhoff, RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL, 4/7/2004, <br />
<br />
...<br />
Elephant Head Rock, for example, a feature of the Lava Beds and the high point of the Sheephead Mountains, stands at just 6,283 feet. What the map doesn’t say is that Elephant Head Rock contains a natural arch that’s 40 feet across and 20 feet high.<br />
...<br />
<br />
(Alvin McLane, 69, of Reno) took a National Geographic photographer and writer to the site in 1983 for book called “America’s Hidden Corners.” <br />
...<br />
<br />
The name “Lava Beds” is a misnomer, ... consist of granitic rock ranging in age from 85 to 104 millions years. That granite is considered to be an extension of the Sierra Nevada batholith<br />
<br />
(more)</div>Bchttps://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=Lava_Beds&diff=4959Lava Beds2012-04-12T01:04:42Z<p>Bc: added http://www.lrrforums.com/showthread.php?13361-Oct-3-2009-Elephant-Rock-Lava-Beds</p>
<hr />
<div>http://www.lrrforums.com/showthread.php?13361-Oct-3-2009-Elephant-Rock-Lava-Beds<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
http://www.rgj.com/news/stories/html/2004/04/07/67965.php OLD LINK<br />
<br />
Lava Beds rest quietly, Mark Vanderhoff, RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL, 4/7/2004, <br />
<br />
...<br />
Elephant Head Rock, for example, a feature of the Lava Beds and the high point of the Sheephead Mountains, stands at just 6,283 feet. What the map doesn’t say is that Elephant Head Rock contains a natural arch that’s 40 feet across and 20 feet high.<br />
...<br />
<br />
(Alvin McLane, 69, of Reno) took a National Geographic photographer and writer to the site in 1983 for book called “America’s Hidden Corners.” <br />
...<br />
<br />
The name “Lava Beds” is a misnomer, ... consist of granitic rock ranging in age from 85 to 104 millions years. That granite is considered to be an extension of the Sierra Nevada batholith<br />
<br />
(more)</div>Bchttps://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=High_Rock_Canyon&diff=4958High Rock Canyon2012-04-09T21:42:49Z<p>Bc: added image</p>
<hr />
<div><div style="float:right; margin-left:20px; margin-bottom:20px">http://blackrockdesert.org/friends/files/images/High%20Rock%20Canyon%20Rock%20Outcroppings%20by%20Chuck%20Dodd.jpg</div><br />
<br />
<b>High Rock Canyon, Nevada</b><br />
<br />
"It was a singular place to travel through- shut up in the earth, a sort of chasm, the little strip of grass under our feet, the rough walls of bare rock on either hand, and the narrow strip of sky above." -- John C. Fremont, description of High Rock Canyon, 1843<br />
<br />
== High Rock Canyon ==<br />
<br />
* http://www.blackrockfriends.org/area_information/HighRockSideCanyons.php www.blackrockfriends.org/area_information/HighRockSideCanyons.php -- Friends of Black Rock High Rock; High Rock Canyon is one of nature’s masterpieces. It is a narrow defile cut 800 feet deep through layers of dark lava and multi-colored volcanic ash. The canyon can be traversed by high-clearance four-wheel-drive vehicles except between February 1st and the second week in May when the road is closed to protect wildlife during nesting and lambing times. Hiking is allowed year round. Vehicle camping is restricted to primitive, designated sites only. This is the best place in Black Rock-High Rock Country to view bighorn sheep and raptors. ...<br />
<br />
== High Rock Canyon Wilderness ==<br />
<br />
* http://www.nevadawilderness.org/Library/area.asp?nMode=1&nLibraryID=79 www.nevadawilderness.org/Library/area.asp?nMode=1&nLibraryID=79 -- [[Friends of Nevada Wilderness]] The High Rock Canyon Wilderness is painted with layers of white, gray, orange and brown bedding. The bright green of the canyon floors and pockets on the walls contrast with the grey green of sagebrush. A 360 panorama of valleys, terraces and mountain ranges open up vistas 60 miles in all directions. The Wilderness Area's northeast border hits the abrupt edge of High Rock Canyon. Antelope and birds of prey are common here.<br />
<br />
== East Fork High Rock Canyon Wilderness ==<br />
<br />
* http://www.nevadawilderness.org/Library/area.asp?nMode=1&nLibraryID=54 www.nevadawilderness.org/Library/area.asp?nMode=1&nLibraryID=54 --<br />
<br />
== Links ==<br />
<br />
* http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/fo/surprise/highrock.html www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/fo/surprise/highrock.html -- BLM California, Surprise Field Office, Black Rock Desert High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area<br />
<br />
* http://www.knpb.org/programming/local/wild-nevada/trips/ www.knpb.org/programming/local/wild-nevada/trips/ -- KNPB Wild Nevada #209, "High Rock Canyon."<br />
<br />
* http://www.desert-survivors.org/Trip_Info/Nevada_Desert_Trail_DispatchesPgAABBCC.htm www.desert-survivors.org/Trip_Info/Nevada_Desert_Trail_Dispatches -- 2005 Nevada Desert Trail Dispatches, Segment AA: High Rock Canyon: The High Rock Canyon trip was the first of the final three Desert Trail Relay segments. ...<br />
<br />
== Photographs ==<br />
<br />
* http://www.canvocta.org/routes/route_Lassen.html<br />
<br />
* http://www.greatbasinguide.com/ photo by Robert Klaput Head of Little High Rock Canyon<br />
<br />
* http://janiart1.com/_wsn/page4.html NV Hunt Book Cover 2000 "Stand off at High Rock Canyon"<br />
<br />
* [http://octopup.org/sw2006/blackrock.htm#High_Rock_Canyon Driving Through High Rock Canyon], summer 2006<br />
<br />
* http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=896153</div>Bchttps://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gerlach_Nevada_climate_summary&diff=4956Gerlach Nevada climate summary2011-06-30T00:09:11Z<p>Bc: </p>
<hr />
<div>2010-2011 Gerlach Nevada Rainfall: (inches)<br/><br />
2010_07 0.54<br/><br />
2010_08 0.24<br/><br />
2010_09 0.01<br/><br />
2010_10 2.18<br/><br />
2010_11 0.55<br/><br />
2010_12 1.6<br/><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;= 5.12<br/><br />
2011_01 0.25<br/><br />
2011_02 0.9<br/><br />
2011_03 1.82<br/><br />
2011_04 1.18<br/><br />
2011_05 1.49<br/><br />
2011_06 0.76<br/><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;= 6.4<br/><br />
<hr/><br />
<br />
(representative climate of the Northwest Nevada high desert and Black Rock Desert at 4000 feet)<br />
<br />
http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?nv3090<br />
<br />
Gerlach, Nevada<br />
<br />
Period of Record Monthly Climate Summary<br />
<br />
Period of Record : 1/17/1948 to 9/30/2010<br />
<br />
<br />
<table border=1 cellspacing=2 cellpadding=2><br />
<tr><br />
<td></td><br />
<td>Jan</td><br />
<td>Feb</td><br />
<td>Mar</td><br />
<td>Apr</td><br />
<td>May</td><br />
<td>Jun</td><br />
<td>Jul</td><br />
<td>Aug</td><br />
<td>Sep</td><br />
<td>Oct</td><br />
<td>Nov</td><br />
<td>Dec</td><br />
<td>Annual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>Average Max. Temperature (F) </td><br />
<td>41.2</td><br />
<td>48.1</td><br />
<td>56.7</td><br />
<td>63.9</td><br />
<td>73.7</td><br />
<td>82.2</td><br />
<td>92.4</td><br />
<td>90.8</td><br />
<td>81.6</td><br />
<td>68.9</td><br />
<td>52.3</td><br />
<td>40.7</td><br />
<td>66.0</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>Average Min. Temperature (F) </td><br />
<td>21.4</td><br />
<td>25.7</td><br />
<td>30.8</td><br />
<td>35.8</td><br />
<td>44.6</td><br />
<td>52.1</td><br />
<td>58.8</td><br />
<td>56.3</td><br />
<td>47.3</td><br />
<td>36.7</td><br />
<td>27.5</td><br />
<td>20.8</td><br />
<td>38.1</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>Average Total Precipitation (in.) </td><br />
<td>0.98</td><br />
<td>0.64</td><br />
<td>0.62</td><br />
<td>0.70</td><br />
<td>0.92</td><br />
<td>0.68</td><br />
<td>0.25</td><br />
<td>0.23</td><br />
<td>0.28</td><br />
<td>0.36</td><br />
<td>0.95</td><br />
<td>0.93</td><br />
<td>7.55</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>Average Total SnowFall (in.) </td><br />
<td>3.6</td><br />
<td>2.0</td><br />
<td>1.0</td><br />
<td>0.4</td><br />
<td>0.0</td><br />
<td>0.0</td><br />
<td>0.0</td><br />
<td>0.0</td><br />
<td>0.0</td><br />
<td>0.0</td><br />
<td>1.0</td><br />
<td>3.5</td><br />
<td>11.4</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>Average Snow Depth (in.) </td><br />
<td>1</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
<br />
<br />
<pre><br />
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual<br />
Average Max. Temperature (F) 41.2 48.1 56.7 63.9 73.7 82.2 92.4 90.8 81.6 68.9 52.3 40.7 66.0<br />
Average Min. Temperature (F) 21.4 25.7 30.8 35.8 44.6 52.1 58.8 56.3 47.3 36.7 27.5 20.8 38.1<br />
Average Total Precip. (in.) 0.98 0.64 0.62 0.70 0.92 0.68 0.25 0.23 0.28 0.36 0.95 0.93 7.55<br />
Average Total SnowFall (in.) 3.6 2.0 1.0 0.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 3.5 11.4<br />
Average Snow Depth (in.) 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0<br />
</pre></div>Bchttps://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gerlach_Nevada_climate_summary&diff=4955Gerlach Nevada climate summary2011-06-30T00:08:38Z<p>Bc: </p>
<hr />
<div>2010-2011 Gerlach Nevada Rainfall: (inches)<br/><br />
2010_07 0.54<br/><br />
2010_08 0.24<br/><br />
2010_09 0.01<br/><br />
2010_10 2.18<br/><br />
2010_11 0.55<br/><br />
2010_12 1.6<br/><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;= 5.12<br/><br />
2011_01 0.25<br/><br />
2011_02 0.9<br/><br />
2011_03 1.82<br/><br />
2011_04 1.18<br/><br />
2011_05 1.49<br/><br />
2011_06 0.76<br/><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;= 6.4<br/><br />
<br />
(representative climate of the Northwest Nevada high desert and Black Rock Desert at 4000 feet)<br />
<br />
http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?nv3090<br />
<br />
Gerlach, Nevada<br />
<br />
Period of Record Monthly Climate Summary<br />
<br />
Period of Record : 1/17/1948 to 9/30/2010<br />
<br />
<br />
<table border=1 cellspacing=2 cellpadding=2><br />
<tr><br />
<td></td><br />
<td>Jan</td><br />
<td>Feb</td><br />
<td>Mar</td><br />
<td>Apr</td><br />
<td>May</td><br />
<td>Jun</td><br />
<td>Jul</td><br />
<td>Aug</td><br />
<td>Sep</td><br />
<td>Oct</td><br />
<td>Nov</td><br />
<td>Dec</td><br />
<td>Annual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>Average Max. Temperature (F) </td><br />
<td>41.2</td><br />
<td>48.1</td><br />
<td>56.7</td><br />
<td>63.9</td><br />
<td>73.7</td><br />
<td>82.2</td><br />
<td>92.4</td><br />
<td>90.8</td><br />
<td>81.6</td><br />
<td>68.9</td><br />
<td>52.3</td><br />
<td>40.7</td><br />
<td>66.0</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>Average Min. Temperature (F) </td><br />
<td>21.4</td><br />
<td>25.7</td><br />
<td>30.8</td><br />
<td>35.8</td><br />
<td>44.6</td><br />
<td>52.1</td><br />
<td>58.8</td><br />
<td>56.3</td><br />
<td>47.3</td><br />
<td>36.7</td><br />
<td>27.5</td><br />
<td>20.8</td><br />
<td>38.1</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>Average Total Precipitation (in.) </td><br />
<td>0.98</td><br />
<td>0.64</td><br />
<td>0.62</td><br />
<td>0.70</td><br />
<td>0.92</td><br />
<td>0.68</td><br />
<td>0.25</td><br />
<td>0.23</td><br />
<td>0.28</td><br />
<td>0.36</td><br />
<td>0.95</td><br />
<td>0.93</td><br />
<td>7.55</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>Average Total SnowFall (in.) </td><br />
<td>3.6</td><br />
<td>2.0</td><br />
<td>1.0</td><br />
<td>0.4</td><br />
<td>0.0</td><br />
<td>0.0</td><br />
<td>0.0</td><br />
<td>0.0</td><br />
<td>0.0</td><br />
<td>0.0</td><br />
<td>1.0</td><br />
<td>3.5</td><br />
<td>11.4</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>Average Snow Depth (in.) </td><br />
<td>1</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
<br />
<br />
<pre><br />
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual<br />
Average Max. Temperature (F) 41.2 48.1 56.7 63.9 73.7 82.2 92.4 90.8 81.6 68.9 52.3 40.7 66.0<br />
Average Min. Temperature (F) 21.4 25.7 30.8 35.8 44.6 52.1 58.8 56.3 47.3 36.7 27.5 20.8 38.1<br />
Average Total Precip. (in.) 0.98 0.64 0.62 0.70 0.92 0.68 0.25 0.23 0.28 0.36 0.95 0.93 7.55<br />
Average Total SnowFall (in.) 3.6 2.0 1.0 0.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 3.5 11.4<br />
Average Snow Depth (in.) 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0<br />
</pre></div>Bchttps://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gerlach_Nevada_climate_summary&diff=4954Gerlach Nevada climate summary2011-06-30T00:08:01Z<p>Bc: </p>
<hr />
<div>2010-2011 Gerlach Nevada Rainfall:<br/><br />
2010_07 0.54<br/><br />
2010_08 0.24<br/><br />
2010_09 0.01<br/><br />
2010_10 2.18<br/><br />
2010_11 0.55<br/><br />
2010_12 1.6<br/><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;5.12<br/><br />
2011_01 0.25<br/><br />
2011_02 0.9<br/><br />
2011_03 1.82<br/><br />
2011_04 1.18<br/><br />
2011_05 1.49<br/><br />
2011_06 0.76<br/><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;6.4<br/><br />
<br />
(representative climate of the Northwest Nevada high desert and Black Rock Desert at 4000 feet)<br />
<br />
http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?nv3090<br />
<br />
Gerlach, Nevada<br />
<br />
Period of Record Monthly Climate Summary<br />
<br />
Period of Record : 1/17/1948 to 9/30/2010<br />
<br />
<br />
<table border=1 cellspacing=2 cellpadding=2><br />
<tr><br />
<td></td><br />
<td>Jan</td><br />
<td>Feb</td><br />
<td>Mar</td><br />
<td>Apr</td><br />
<td>May</td><br />
<td>Jun</td><br />
<td>Jul</td><br />
<td>Aug</td><br />
<td>Sep</td><br />
<td>Oct</td><br />
<td>Nov</td><br />
<td>Dec</td><br />
<td>Annual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>Average Max. Temperature (F) </td><br />
<td>41.2</td><br />
<td>48.1</td><br />
<td>56.7</td><br />
<td>63.9</td><br />
<td>73.7</td><br />
<td>82.2</td><br />
<td>92.4</td><br />
<td>90.8</td><br />
<td>81.6</td><br />
<td>68.9</td><br />
<td>52.3</td><br />
<td>40.7</td><br />
<td>66.0</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>Average Min. Temperature (F) </td><br />
<td>21.4</td><br />
<td>25.7</td><br />
<td>30.8</td><br />
<td>35.8</td><br />
<td>44.6</td><br />
<td>52.1</td><br />
<td>58.8</td><br />
<td>56.3</td><br />
<td>47.3</td><br />
<td>36.7</td><br />
<td>27.5</td><br />
<td>20.8</td><br />
<td>38.1</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>Average Total Precipitation (in.) </td><br />
<td>0.98</td><br />
<td>0.64</td><br />
<td>0.62</td><br />
<td>0.70</td><br />
<td>0.92</td><br />
<td>0.68</td><br />
<td>0.25</td><br />
<td>0.23</td><br />
<td>0.28</td><br />
<td>0.36</td><br />
<td>0.95</td><br />
<td>0.93</td><br />
<td>7.55</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>Average Total SnowFall (in.) </td><br />
<td>3.6</td><br />
<td>2.0</td><br />
<td>1.0</td><br />
<td>0.4</td><br />
<td>0.0</td><br />
<td>0.0</td><br />
<td>0.0</td><br />
<td>0.0</td><br />
<td>0.0</td><br />
<td>0.0</td><br />
<td>1.0</td><br />
<td>3.5</td><br />
<td>11.4</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>Average Snow Depth (in.) </td><br />
<td>1</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
<br />
<br />
<pre><br />
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual<br />
Average Max. Temperature (F) 41.2 48.1 56.7 63.9 73.7 82.2 92.4 90.8 81.6 68.9 52.3 40.7 66.0<br />
Average Min. Temperature (F) 21.4 25.7 30.8 35.8 44.6 52.1 58.8 56.3 47.3 36.7 27.5 20.8 38.1<br />
Average Total Precip. (in.) 0.98 0.64 0.62 0.70 0.92 0.68 0.25 0.23 0.28 0.36 0.95 0.93 7.55<br />
Average Total SnowFall (in.) 3.6 2.0 1.0 0.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 3.5 11.4<br />
Average Snow Depth (in.) 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0<br />
</pre></div>Bchttps://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gerlach_Nevada_climate_summary&diff=4953Gerlach Nevada climate summary2011-06-30T00:06:28Z<p>Bc: </p>
<hr />
<div>2010-2011 Gerlach Nevada Rainfall:<br/><br />
2010_07 0.54<br/><br />
2010_08 0.24<br/><br />
2010_09 0.01<br/><br />
2010_10 2.18<br/><br />
2010_11 0.55<br/><br />
2010_12 1.6<br/><br />
2011_01 0.25<br/><br />
2011_02 0.9<br/><br />
2011_03 1.82<br/><br />
2011_04 1.18<br/><br />
2011_05 1.49<br/><br />
2011_06 0.76<br/><br />
<br />
<br />
(representative climate of the Northwest Nevada high desert and Black Rock Desert at 4000 feet)<br />
<br />
http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?nv3090<br />
<br />
Gerlach, Nevada<br />
<br />
Period of Record Monthly Climate Summary<br />
<br />
Period of Record : 1/17/1948 to 9/30/2010<br />
<br />
<br />
<table border=1 cellspacing=2 cellpadding=2><br />
<tr><br />
<td></td><br />
<td>Jan</td><br />
<td>Feb</td><br />
<td>Mar</td><br />
<td>Apr</td><br />
<td>May</td><br />
<td>Jun</td><br />
<td>Jul</td><br />
<td>Aug</td><br />
<td>Sep</td><br />
<td>Oct</td><br />
<td>Nov</td><br />
<td>Dec</td><br />
<td>Annual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>Average Max. Temperature (F) </td><br />
<td>41.2</td><br />
<td>48.1</td><br />
<td>56.7</td><br />
<td>63.9</td><br />
<td>73.7</td><br />
<td>82.2</td><br />
<td>92.4</td><br />
<td>90.8</td><br />
<td>81.6</td><br />
<td>68.9</td><br />
<td>52.3</td><br />
<td>40.7</td><br />
<td>66.0</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>Average Min. Temperature (F) </td><br />
<td>21.4</td><br />
<td>25.7</td><br />
<td>30.8</td><br />
<td>35.8</td><br />
<td>44.6</td><br />
<td>52.1</td><br />
<td>58.8</td><br />
<td>56.3</td><br />
<td>47.3</td><br />
<td>36.7</td><br />
<td>27.5</td><br />
<td>20.8</td><br />
<td>38.1</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>Average Total Precipitation (in.) </td><br />
<td>0.98</td><br />
<td>0.64</td><br />
<td>0.62</td><br />
<td>0.70</td><br />
<td>0.92</td><br />
<td>0.68</td><br />
<td>0.25</td><br />
<td>0.23</td><br />
<td>0.28</td><br />
<td>0.36</td><br />
<td>0.95</td><br />
<td>0.93</td><br />
<td>7.55</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>Average Total SnowFall (in.) </td><br />
<td>3.6</td><br />
<td>2.0</td><br />
<td>1.0</td><br />
<td>0.4</td><br />
<td>0.0</td><br />
<td>0.0</td><br />
<td>0.0</td><br />
<td>0.0</td><br />
<td>0.0</td><br />
<td>0.0</td><br />
<td>1.0</td><br />
<td>3.5</td><br />
<td>11.4</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>Average Snow Depth (in.) </td><br />
<td>1</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
<br />
<br />
<pre><br />
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual<br />
Average Max. Temperature (F) 41.2 48.1 56.7 63.9 73.7 82.2 92.4 90.8 81.6 68.9 52.3 40.7 66.0<br />
Average Min. Temperature (F) 21.4 25.7 30.8 35.8 44.6 52.1 58.8 56.3 47.3 36.7 27.5 20.8 38.1<br />
Average Total Precip. (in.) 0.98 0.64 0.62 0.70 0.92 0.68 0.25 0.23 0.28 0.36 0.95 0.93 7.55<br />
Average Total SnowFall (in.) 3.6 2.0 1.0 0.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 3.5 11.4<br />
Average Snow Depth (in.) 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0<br />
</pre></div>Bchttps://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gerlach_Nevada_climate_summary&diff=4952Gerlach Nevada climate summary2011-06-30T00:06:11Z<p>Bc: </p>
<hr />
<div>2010-2011 Gerlach Nevada Rainfall:<br />
2010_07 0.54<br/><br />
2010_08 0.24<br/><br />
2010_09 0.01<br/><br />
2010_10 2.18<br/><br />
2010_11 0.55<br/><br />
2010_12 1.6<br/><br />
2011_01 0.25<br/><br />
2011_02 0.9<br/><br />
2011_03 1.82<br/><br />
2011_04 1.18<br/><br />
2011_05 1.49<br/><br />
2011_06 0.76<br/><br />
<br />
<br />
(representative climate of the Northwest Nevada high desert and Black Rock Desert at 4000 feet)<br />
<br />
http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?nv3090<br />
<br />
Gerlach, Nevada<br />
<br />
Period of Record Monthly Climate Summary<br />
<br />
Period of Record : 1/17/1948 to 9/30/2010<br />
<br />
<br />
<table border=1 cellspacing=2 cellpadding=2><br />
<tr><br />
<td></td><br />
<td>Jan</td><br />
<td>Feb</td><br />
<td>Mar</td><br />
<td>Apr</td><br />
<td>May</td><br />
<td>Jun</td><br />
<td>Jul</td><br />
<td>Aug</td><br />
<td>Sep</td><br />
<td>Oct</td><br />
<td>Nov</td><br />
<td>Dec</td><br />
<td>Annual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>Average Max. Temperature (F) </td><br />
<td>41.2</td><br />
<td>48.1</td><br />
<td>56.7</td><br />
<td>63.9</td><br />
<td>73.7</td><br />
<td>82.2</td><br />
<td>92.4</td><br />
<td>90.8</td><br />
<td>81.6</td><br />
<td>68.9</td><br />
<td>52.3</td><br />
<td>40.7</td><br />
<td>66.0</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>Average Min. Temperature (F) </td><br />
<td>21.4</td><br />
<td>25.7</td><br />
<td>30.8</td><br />
<td>35.8</td><br />
<td>44.6</td><br />
<td>52.1</td><br />
<td>58.8</td><br />
<td>56.3</td><br />
<td>47.3</td><br />
<td>36.7</td><br />
<td>27.5</td><br />
<td>20.8</td><br />
<td>38.1</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>Average Total Precipitation (in.) </td><br />
<td>0.98</td><br />
<td>0.64</td><br />
<td>0.62</td><br />
<td>0.70</td><br />
<td>0.92</td><br />
<td>0.68</td><br />
<td>0.25</td><br />
<td>0.23</td><br />
<td>0.28</td><br />
<td>0.36</td><br />
<td>0.95</td><br />
<td>0.93</td><br />
<td>7.55</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>Average Total SnowFall (in.) </td><br />
<td>3.6</td><br />
<td>2.0</td><br />
<td>1.0</td><br />
<td>0.4</td><br />
<td>0.0</td><br />
<td>0.0</td><br />
<td>0.0</td><br />
<td>0.0</td><br />
<td>0.0</td><br />
<td>0.0</td><br />
<td>1.0</td><br />
<td>3.5</td><br />
<td>11.4</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>Average Snow Depth (in.) </td><br />
<td>1</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
<br />
<br />
<pre><br />
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual<br />
Average Max. Temperature (F) 41.2 48.1 56.7 63.9 73.7 82.2 92.4 90.8 81.6 68.9 52.3 40.7 66.0<br />
Average Min. Temperature (F) 21.4 25.7 30.8 35.8 44.6 52.1 58.8 56.3 47.3 36.7 27.5 20.8 38.1<br />
Average Total Precip. (in.) 0.98 0.64 0.62 0.70 0.92 0.68 0.25 0.23 0.28 0.36 0.95 0.93 7.55<br />
Average Total SnowFall (in.) 3.6 2.0 1.0 0.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 3.5 11.4<br />
Average Snow Depth (in.) 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0<br />
</pre></div>Bchttps://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gerlach_Nevada_climate_summary&diff=4951Gerlach Nevada climate summary2011-06-30T00:05:46Z<p>Bc: </p>
<hr />
<div>2011 Gerlach Nevada Rainfall:<br />
2010_07 0.54<br/><br />
2010_08 0.24<br/><br />
2010_09 0.01<br/><br />
2010_10 2.18<br/><br />
2010_11 0.55<br/><br />
2010_12 1.6<br/><br />
2011_01 0.25<br/><br />
2011_02 0.9<br/><br />
2011_03 1.82<br/><br />
2011_04 1.18<br/><br />
2011_05 1.49<br/><br />
2011_06 0.76<br/><br />
<br />
<br />
(representative climate of the Northwest Nevada high desert and Black Rock Desert at 4000 feet)<br />
<br />
http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?nv3090<br />
<br />
Gerlach, Nevada<br />
<br />
Period of Record Monthly Climate Summary<br />
<br />
Period of Record : 1/17/1948 to 9/30/2010<br />
<br />
<br />
<table border=1 cellspacing=2 cellpadding=2><br />
<tr><br />
<td></td><br />
<td>Jan</td><br />
<td>Feb</td><br />
<td>Mar</td><br />
<td>Apr</td><br />
<td>May</td><br />
<td>Jun</td><br />
<td>Jul</td><br />
<td>Aug</td><br />
<td>Sep</td><br />
<td>Oct</td><br />
<td>Nov</td><br />
<td>Dec</td><br />
<td>Annual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>Average Max. Temperature (F) </td><br />
<td>41.2</td><br />
<td>48.1</td><br />
<td>56.7</td><br />
<td>63.9</td><br />
<td>73.7</td><br />
<td>82.2</td><br />
<td>92.4</td><br />
<td>90.8</td><br />
<td>81.6</td><br />
<td>68.9</td><br />
<td>52.3</td><br />
<td>40.7</td><br />
<td>66.0</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>Average Min. Temperature (F) </td><br />
<td>21.4</td><br />
<td>25.7</td><br />
<td>30.8</td><br />
<td>35.8</td><br />
<td>44.6</td><br />
<td>52.1</td><br />
<td>58.8</td><br />
<td>56.3</td><br />
<td>47.3</td><br />
<td>36.7</td><br />
<td>27.5</td><br />
<td>20.8</td><br />
<td>38.1</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>Average Total Precipitation (in.) </td><br />
<td>0.98</td><br />
<td>0.64</td><br />
<td>0.62</td><br />
<td>0.70</td><br />
<td>0.92</td><br />
<td>0.68</td><br />
<td>0.25</td><br />
<td>0.23</td><br />
<td>0.28</td><br />
<td>0.36</td><br />
<td>0.95</td><br />
<td>0.93</td><br />
<td>7.55</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>Average Total SnowFall (in.) </td><br />
<td>3.6</td><br />
<td>2.0</td><br />
<td>1.0</td><br />
<td>0.4</td><br />
<td>0.0</td><br />
<td>0.0</td><br />
<td>0.0</td><br />
<td>0.0</td><br />
<td>0.0</td><br />
<td>0.0</td><br />
<td>1.0</td><br />
<td>3.5</td><br />
<td>11.4</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>Average Snow Depth (in.) </td><br />
<td>1</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
<br />
<br />
<pre><br />
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual<br />
Average Max. Temperature (F) 41.2 48.1 56.7 63.9 73.7 82.2 92.4 90.8 81.6 68.9 52.3 40.7 66.0<br />
Average Min. Temperature (F) 21.4 25.7 30.8 35.8 44.6 52.1 58.8 56.3 47.3 36.7 27.5 20.8 38.1<br />
Average Total Precip. (in.) 0.98 0.64 0.62 0.70 0.92 0.68 0.25 0.23 0.28 0.36 0.95 0.93 7.55<br />
Average Total SnowFall (in.) 3.6 2.0 1.0 0.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 3.5 11.4<br />
Average Snow Depth (in.) 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0<br />
</pre></div>Bchttps://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gerlach_Nevada_climate_summary&diff=4950Gerlach Nevada climate summary2011-06-30T00:05:06Z<p>Bc: added 2011 rainfall</p>
<hr />
<div>2011 Gerlach Nevada Rainfall:<br />
2010_07 0.54<br />
2010_08 0.24<br />
2010_09 0.01<br />
2010_10 2.18<br />
2010_11 0.55<br />
2010_12 1.6<br />
2011_01 0.25<br />
2011_02 0.9<br />
2011_03 1.82<br />
2011_04 1.18<br />
2011_05 1.49<br />
2011_06 0.76<br />
<br />
<br />
(representative climate of the Northwest Nevada high desert and Black Rock Desert at 4000 feet)<br />
<br />
http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?nv3090<br />
<br />
Gerlach, Nevada<br />
<br />
Period of Record Monthly Climate Summary<br />
<br />
Period of Record : 1/17/1948 to 9/30/2010<br />
<br />
<br />
<table border=1 cellspacing=2 cellpadding=2><br />
<tr><br />
<td></td><br />
<td>Jan</td><br />
<td>Feb</td><br />
<td>Mar</td><br />
<td>Apr</td><br />
<td>May</td><br />
<td>Jun</td><br />
<td>Jul</td><br />
<td>Aug</td><br />
<td>Sep</td><br />
<td>Oct</td><br />
<td>Nov</td><br />
<td>Dec</td><br />
<td>Annual</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>Average Max. Temperature (F) </td><br />
<td>41.2</td><br />
<td>48.1</td><br />
<td>56.7</td><br />
<td>63.9</td><br />
<td>73.7</td><br />
<td>82.2</td><br />
<td>92.4</td><br />
<td>90.8</td><br />
<td>81.6</td><br />
<td>68.9</td><br />
<td>52.3</td><br />
<td>40.7</td><br />
<td>66.0</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>Average Min. Temperature (F) </td><br />
<td>21.4</td><br />
<td>25.7</td><br />
<td>30.8</td><br />
<td>35.8</td><br />
<td>44.6</td><br />
<td>52.1</td><br />
<td>58.8</td><br />
<td>56.3</td><br />
<td>47.3</td><br />
<td>36.7</td><br />
<td>27.5</td><br />
<td>20.8</td><br />
<td>38.1</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>Average Total Precipitation (in.) </td><br />
<td>0.98</td><br />
<td>0.64</td><br />
<td>0.62</td><br />
<td>0.70</td><br />
<td>0.92</td><br />
<td>0.68</td><br />
<td>0.25</td><br />
<td>0.23</td><br />
<td>0.28</td><br />
<td>0.36</td><br />
<td>0.95</td><br />
<td>0.93</td><br />
<td>7.55</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>Average Total SnowFall (in.) </td><br />
<td>3.6</td><br />
<td>2.0</td><br />
<td>1.0</td><br />
<td>0.4</td><br />
<td>0.0</td><br />
<td>0.0</td><br />
<td>0.0</td><br />
<td>0.0</td><br />
<td>0.0</td><br />
<td>0.0</td><br />
<td>1.0</td><br />
<td>3.5</td><br />
<td>11.4</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td>Average Snow Depth (in.) </td><br />
<td>1</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
<td>0</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
<br />
<br />
<pre><br />
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual<br />
Average Max. Temperature (F) 41.2 48.1 56.7 63.9 73.7 82.2 92.4 90.8 81.6 68.9 52.3 40.7 66.0<br />
Average Min. Temperature (F) 21.4 25.7 30.8 35.8 44.6 52.1 58.8 56.3 47.3 36.7 27.5 20.8 38.1<br />
Average Total Precip. (in.) 0.98 0.64 0.62 0.70 0.92 0.68 0.25 0.23 0.28 0.36 0.95 0.93 7.55<br />
Average Total SnowFall (in.) 3.6 2.0 1.0 0.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 3.5 11.4<br />
Average Snow Depth (in.) 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0<br />
</pre></div>Bchttps://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=King_Lear_Peak&diff=4925King Lear Peak2011-04-13T19:32:55Z<p>Bc: http://130.166.124.2/nv_panorama_atlas/page10/files/page10-1026-full.html</p>
<hr />
<div>* http://www.summitpost.org/king-lear-peak/151515<br />
<br />
* http://blog.oregonlive.com/terryrichard/2008/08/blackrockdesert.html<br />
<br />
* http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=3325<br />
<br />
* http://www.nevadawilderness.org/Library/area.asp?nMode=1&nLibraryID=175<br />
<br />
* http://www.sangres.com/nevada/blm/south-jackson.htm<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
* http://contentdm.library.unr.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/hmaps&CISOPTR=1766&CISOBOX=1&REC=5 topo map<br />
<br />
* http://130.166.124.2/nv_panorama_atlas/page10/page10.html<br />
* http://130.166.124.2/nv_panorama_atlas/page10/files/page10-1026-full.html<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
* http://www.flickr.com/photos/kayephoto/5616383264/in/pool-12532544%40N00<br />
<br />
* http://www.flickr.com/photos/28016468@N06/2639165817/</div>Bchttps://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=King_Lear_Peak&diff=4924King Lear Peak2011-04-13T19:29:52Z<p>Bc: created</p>
<hr />
<div>* http://www.summitpost.org/king-lear-peak/151515<br />
<br />
* http://blog.oregonlive.com/terryrichard/2008/08/blackrockdesert.html<br />
<br />
* http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=3325<br />
<br />
* http://contentdm.library.unr.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/hmaps&CISOPTR=1766&CISOBOX=1&REC=5 topo map<br />
<br />
* http://www.nevadawilderness.org/Library/area.asp?nMode=1&nLibraryID=175<br />
<br />
* http://www.sangres.com/nevada/blm/south-jackson.htm<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
* http://www.flickr.com/photos/kayephoto/5616383264/in/pool-12532544%40N00<br />
<br />
* http://www.flickr.com/photos/28016468@N06/2639165817/</div>Bchttps://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=Ham_Radio&diff=4839Ham Radio2010-08-14T19:23:18Z<p>Bc: moved black rock repeaters to top</p>
<hr />
<div>== Black Rock repeaters ==<br />
<br />
New Ham Radio repeaters in Black Rock: http://cq-blackrock.org/<br />
<br />
* UHF Repeater and IRLP Node 7249<br />
o 444.175 MHz (+), PL 100.0 <br />
* VHF IRLP Node 3075<br />
o 146.7 MHz, PL 100.0<br />
o Simplex <br />
* APRS Digipeater GERLCH<br />
o 144.39 MHz simplex<br />
o Gatewayed to the Internet (APRS-IS)<br />
<br />
Friends of Black Rock<br />
<br />
* VHF Repeater<br />
o 145.23 MHz (-), PL 123.0<br />
<br />
== other repeaters == <br />
<br />
HAM RADIO OPERATOR?<br />
<br />
The following 2 Meter repeaters are the best to try in the Black Rock & Playa area. This list is not complete. Repeaters are listed in the approximate best order. The north/south orientation on Nevada’s Basin & Range topography creates major problems trying to hit repeaters to the east and west! NOTE: Repeater coverage is spotty but keep trying! Many times if you simply drive a couple of miles you’ll hit the repeater. A mobile radio will usually hit one of these but a handheld won’t! KD7YIM<br />
<br />
<table border="1"><br />
<br />
<tr><br />
<td> Repeater Location </td><br />
<td> Frequency </td><br />
<td> PL </td><br />
<td> Comments </td><br />
</tr><br />
<br />
<tr><br />
<td> Virginia Peak </td><br />
<td> 147.030 </td><br />
<td> 123 </td><br />
<td> About 5 miles SW of Nixon </td><br />
</tr><br />
<br />
<tr><br />
<td> Toulon </td><br />
<td> 147.390 </td><br />
<td> 123 </td><br />
<td> Near Lovelock, SE of the playa. Normally linked to Ophir,(146.610/123), link down as of 5/08, Remote repeater with few users! </td><br />
</tr><br />
<br />
<tr><br />
<td> Virginia Peak </td><br />
<td> 147.180 </td><br />
<td> 123 </td><br />
<td> About 5 miles SW of Nixon </td><br />
</tr><br />
<br />
<tr><br />
<td> 2 Meter call </td><br />
<td> 146.52 </td><br />
<td> n/a </td><br />
<td> Some users leave their radios set on this frequency </td><br />
</tr><br />
<br />
</table><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
== Stratofox ==<br />
<br />
The [[Stratofox|Stratofox Aerospace Tracking Team]] maintains an [http://www.stratofox.org/twiki/bin/view/BlackRock/AmateurRadioBandPlan Amateur Radio Band Plan for the Black Rock Desert], a project which started in 2001 due to increasing use of Amateur Radio by rocketry groups at Black Rock. Unlike in metro areas where band plans are used to manage frequency congestion, at Black Rock it also has the role of allowing Hams to know what frequencies to call for assistance if they believe other groups are in the area. Users of the area are encouraged to use it, and contribute updates to keep it current. Stratofox maintains an e-mail list for discussion of the band plan. Note that it is not in effect during the Burning Man event - the radio environment changes so much at that time.<br />
<br />
The following information was provided by David Book, 12/28/2007:<br />
<blockquote><br />
I haven't used 70 CM up there but my repeater directory says theres a<br />
repeater at Gerlach (Maybe at Fox mtn? I've heard it's down....) on<br />
441.7000/ pl 146.2. There's a large Washoe county repeater on Fox Mtn. <br />
<br />
I normally use 2 meter repeaters on Virginia Peak (near Nixon) at<br />
146.030/pl 123 or Toulon (near Lovelock) at 147.390/ pl 123 when in the<br />
Black Rock. The Virginia Peak repeater gets used by folks in Reno and the<br />
Lovelock repeater is linked to the Reno area through another repeater at<br />
Ophir, near Virginia City. Look at a shaded relief map and you'll see the<br />
problem, the mtn ranges all run north and south so line of sight isn't so<br />
good either direction. <br />
<br />
Both of these repeaters are spotty but often go in & out over the course of<br />
a few miles so keep trying. I can't hit them with a handheld, even with a<br />
mag-mount antennna but can with a mobile & a mag mount. I've also been<br />
told you can hit a Susanville repeater up there but have never had any<br />
luck. You'll see the issues if you look at a CA/NV/Oregon/Idaho map &<br />
start drawing circles, there's just not much around there.<br />
<br />
Also, note that there's a Fox MOUNTAIN in the Granites NW of Gerlach and a<br />
Fox RANGE to the SW of Gerlach...<br />
<br />
Otherwise, it's upgrade to the General, easier since they dropped the code<br />
requirement.<br />
<br />
David, KD7YIM<br />
</blockquote></div>Bchttps://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=Pyramid_Lake&diff=4822Pyramid Lake2010-01-30T20:02:10Z<p>Bc: added http://www.jpgmag.com/search/photos/pyramid%2Blake</p>
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<div>[[Image:ISS015-E-15145 (Pyramid Lake 2007-06-29).JPG|frame|right|ISS015-E-15145 (Pyramid Lake 2007-06-29)]]<br />
<br />
<br />
* http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=ISS015&roll=E&frame=15145 eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=ISS015&roll=E&frame=15145 --<br />
Astronaut Photography of Earth - Display Record ISS015-E-15145<br />
<br />
<br />
* http://www.nevadaweb.com/cnt/r-t/pyramid/main.html www.nevadaweb.com/cnt/r-t/pyramid/main.html<br />
<br />
* http://www.nevadatravel.net/travelgram/06-04.html www.nevadatravel.net/travelgram/06-04.html<br />
<br />
<br />
* http://www.crosbylodge.com/pyramid_lake/pl_map_needles.htm www.crosbylodge.com/pyramid_lake/pl_map_needles.htm<br />
<br />
<br />
* http://www.plpt.nsn.us/geology/index.html www.plpt.nsn.us/geology<br />
<br />
<br />
* http://www.longcamp.com/pyramid.html www.longcamp.com/pyramid.html -- Frémont, January 14, 1844. We encamped on the shore, opposite a very remarkable rock in the lake<br />
<br />
<br />
* http://www.directart.co.uk/mall/more.php?ProdID=4524 www.directart.co.uk/mall/more.php?ProdID=4524<br />
<br />
<br />
* http://fabtreks.blogspot.com/2007/02/back-in-time-at-pyramid-lake-nevada.html fabtreks.blogspot.com/2007/02/back-in-time-at-pyramid-lake-nevada.html<br />
<br />
<br />
* http://www.nv.nrcs.usda.gov/news/ www.nv.nrcs.usda.gov/news -- Nevada NRCS (Natural Resources Conservation Service) News, Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe and Partners Work to Restore Abandoned Mine<br />
<br />
<br />
* http://www.rgj.com/news/stories/html/2003/03/19/37188.php www.rgj.com/news/stories/html/2003/03/19/37188.php RGJ 3/19/2003 Sacred place vs. recreational space, Outdoors buffs sometimes miss the meaning of American Indian sites<br />
<br />
* http://www.jpgmag.com/search/photos/pyramid%2Blake www.jpgmag.com/search/photos/pyramid%2Blake</div>Bchttps://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=Photography&diff=4815Photography2009-10-22T19:00:24Z<p>Bc: </p>
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<div><h1>Photography of the Black Rock Desert</h1><br />
<br />
octopup.org:<br />
* [http://octopup.org/sw2001/712 Black Rock Desert], Summer 2001<br />
* [http://octopup.org/black-rock-desert-2002 Black Rock Desert Side Trip], August 2002<br />
* [http://octopup.org/black-rock-desert-snow Black Rock Desert in the Snow] December, 2004<br />
* [http://octopup.org/sw2006/blackrock Black Rock Desert Area], Summer 2006<br />
<br />
<br />
* http://www.spench.com/trips/brd/index.htm spench.com Black Rock Desert Oct 11 & 12, 2003<br />
<br />
<br />
* http://www.angier-fox.com/images/nevada-pix/nev-north.htm Angier-Fox.com &#150; Image West Photography - Northern Nevada<br />
<br />
<br />
* http://www.chandlerphotos.com/ Steve Chandler has taken many beautiful images of the Black Rock Desert and surrounding area. [http://www.chandlerphotos.com/color.html color] and [http://www.chandlerphotos.com/BlackWhite.html black/white] galleries.<br />
<br />
<br />
* http://www.westernfolklife.org/weblogs/artists/dufurrenal/ Linda Dufurrena photographs all aspects of life in her desert corner of Nevada. She finds her subject matter in the landscape, and in the everchanging patterns of the desert atmosphere. She photographs the creatures who inhabit the wild spaces, and the men and women who live and work there. Her vision of the world is translated into photographic image in her workshop at the Dufurrena ranch northwest of Winnemucca, Nevada.<br />
<br />
<br />
* [http://www.depauw.edu/acad/geosciences/tcope/blackrock.htm http://www.depauw.edu/acad/geosciences/tcope/blackrock.htm]<br />
<br />
<br />
* http://www.i-20.com/artist.php?artist_id=19&page=additionalimages&work_id=446 Spencer Tunick's _Nevada (Black Rock Desert) 2000_<br />
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<br />
* http://scotthaefner.com/kap/gallery/?g=2006 Kite Aerial Photography by Scott Haefner 2006 Photos<br />
<br />
<br />
* [http://www.stanwhite.com/blackrock.html http://www.stanwhite.com/blackrock.html]<br />
<br />
<br />
* [http://www.bohemianmasquerade.com/Photography/black_rock_station/black_rock_station.html http://www.bohemianmasquerade.com/Photography/black_rock_station/black_rock_station.html]<br />
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<br />
* [http://www.archive.org/details/Black_Rock_Sunrise http://www.archive.org/details/Black_Rock_Sunrise]<br />
<br />
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* http://online.wr.usgs.gov/outreach/historicPhotos/historical_photos_1925-1953.html<br />
* http://online.wr.usgs.gov/outreach/historicPhotos/historical_photos_1955-1993.html<br />
<br />
<br />
* http://www.apogeephoto.com/nov2001/hitchman1_112001.shtml<br />
<br />
<br />
* http://ian.kluft.com/blackrock/ includes thousands of photos of the Black Rock Desert, with an emphasis on rocketry events<br />
<br />
<br />
* http://www.liquidinplastic.com/2008/05/camping-tripportraits-on-the-blackrock-desert/ Daniel Newton's Camping Trip/Portraits on the Blackrock Desert<br />
* http://www.liquidinplastic.com/2008/05/the-lost-memory-card-returns-from-its-100-mile-journey/ and The Lost Memory Card Returns From its 100 Mile Journey!<br />
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* http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidkiene/3306010908/ flickr.com/photos/davidkiene/3306010908/</div>Bchttps://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=Photography&diff=4814Photography2009-10-22T18:59:27Z<p>Bc: added http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidkiene/3306010908/</p>
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<div><h1>Photography of the Black Rock Desert</h1><br />
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octopup.org:<br />
* [http://octopup.org/sw2001/712 Black Rock Desert], Summer 2001<br />
* [http://octopup.org/black-rock-desert-2002 Black Rock Desert Side Trip], August 2002<br />
* [http://octopup.org/black-rock-desert-snow Black Rock Desert in the Snow] December, 2004<br />
* [http://octopup.org/sw2006/blackrock Black Rock Desert Area], Summer 2006<br />
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* http://www.spench.com/trips/brd/index.htm spench.com Black Rock Desert Oct 11 & 12, 2003<br />
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* http://www.angier-fox.com/images/nevada-pix/nev-north.htm Angier-Fox.com &#150; Image West Photography - Northern Nevada<br />
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* http://www.chandlerphotos.com/ Steve Chandler has taken many beautiful images of the Black Rock Desert and surrounding area. [http://www.chandlerphotos.com/color.html color] and [http://www.chandlerphotos.com/BlackWhite.html black/white] galleries.<br />
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* http://www.westernfolklife.org/weblogs/artists/dufurrenal/ Linda Dufurrena photographs all aspects of life in her desert corner of Nevada. She finds her subject matter in the landscape, and in the everchanging patterns of the desert atmosphere. She photographs the creatures who inhabit the wild spaces, and the men and women who live and work there. Her vision of the world is translated into photographic image in her workshop at the Dufurrena ranch northwest of Winnemucca, Nevada.<br />
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* [http://www.depauw.edu/acad/geosciences/tcope/blackrock.htm http://www.depauw.edu/acad/geosciences/tcope/blackrock.htm]<br />
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* http://www.i-20.com/artist.php?artist_id=19&page=additionalimages&work_id=446 Spencer Tunick's _Nevada (Black Rock Desert) 2000_<br />
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* http://scotthaefner.com/kap/gallery/?g=2006 Kite Aerial Photography by Scott Haefner 2006 Photos<br />
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* [http://www.stanwhite.com/blackrock.html http://www.stanwhite.com/blackrock.html]<br />
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* [http://www.bohemianmasquerade.com/Photography/black_rock_station/black_rock_station.html http://www.bohemianmasquerade.com/Photography/black_rock_station/black_rock_station.html]<br />
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* [http://www.archive.org/details/Black_Rock_Sunrise http://www.archive.org/details/Black_Rock_Sunrise]<br />
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* http://online.wr.usgs.gov/outreach/historicPhotos/historical_photos_1925-1953.html<br />
* http://online.wr.usgs.gov/outreach/historicPhotos/historical_photos_1955-1993.html<br />
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* http://www.apogeephoto.com/nov2001/hitchman1_112001.shtml<br />
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* http://ian.kluft.com/blackrock/ includes thousands of photos of the Black Rock Desert, with an emphasis on rocketry events<br />
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* http://www.liquidinplastic.com/2008/05/camping-tripportraits-on-the-blackrock-desert/ Daniel Newton's Camping Trip/Portraits on the Blackrock Desert<br />
* http://www.liquidinplastic.com/2008/05/the-lost-memory-card-returns-from-its-100-mile-journey/ and The Lost Memory Card Returns From its 100 Mile Journey!<br />
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* http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidkiene/3306010908/ flickr.com/photos/davidkiene/3306010908/</div>Bchttps://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=Emigrant_Experience_Tour&diff=4809Emigrant Experience Tour2009-07-13T17:39:59Z<p>Bc: chuck dodd requested changes</p>
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<div>==“Emigrant Experience” Tour on the Applegate Trail ==<br />
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Across the Black Rock Desert and Through High Rock Canyon<br />
<br />
Imagine it!<br />
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The year is 1849; the month, September. You are floating overhead in a hot air balloon, from north central Nevada, northwest almost to where the states of Nevada, California, and Oregon all come together, and then on southwest into California’s Central Valley.<br />
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If you were able to complete that flight in one day, you would see, below you, a continuous thin white line drawn across deserts and mountains — a line drawn by the canvas tops of thousands of covered wagons. If you descended low enough you could see more than ten thousand men, far fewer women, and a scattering of children. There would be a 425-mile-long line of covered wagons, men, women, children, mules, oxen, and horses, all heading for the promise of riches in the California gold fields.<br />
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Come back to the year 2009.<br />
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Almost half of the length of trail followed by the covered wagons described above now lie in the Black Rock Desert-High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area (NCA) designated by the U.S. Congress in the year 2000. Congress found that “The areas of northwestern Nevada known as the Black Rock Desert and High Rock Canyon contain and surround the last nationally significant, untouched segments of the historic California emigrant Trails, including wagon ruts, historic inscriptions, and a wilderness landscape largely unchanged since the days of the pioneers.” And that “The relative absence of development in the Black Rock Desert and High Rock Canyon areas from emigrant times to the present day offers a unique opportunity to capture the terrain, sights, and conditions of the overland trails as they were experienced by the emigrants and to make available to both present and future generations of Americans the opportunity of experiencing emigrant conditions in an unaltered setting.”<br />
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You are hereby offered that “opportunity of experiencing emigrant conditions in an unaltered setting.”<br />
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—— § § § ——<br />
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Chuck Dodd, an authority on the Applegate-Lassen Trail that runs across the Black Rock Desert and through High Rock Canyon, author of California Trail (one of KC Publication’s Voyage of Discovery series) and Guide to Getting Around in the Black Rock Desert and High Rock Canyon, will lead an interpreted “Emigrant Experience” tour along the Applegate-Lassen Trail, in 2009. Please see the [http://blackrockdesert.org/friends/event calendar] for dates.<br />
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You are invited to join him.<br />
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The four-day, three-night tour will run from Imlay, Nevada to Goose Lake (lying across the California-Oregon border north of Alturas). Spectacular scenery. Camping on the trail. Mostly no gas, no water, no toilets, no trees. Everyone will be responsible for their own camping equipment, food, and water, and (if they want) for their own reservations at Soldier Meadows Ranch. Four wheel drive, high clearance vehicles required. Vehicles will be scratched (Nevada pin-striped) by sage brush in High Rock Canyon. Everyone should have gas enough for 200 miles, much of it in low gears over rocky terrain, some of it in four-wheel drive. (If we are lucky, we won’t travel the full 200 miles before we reach a gas pump, but we need a margin of safety.) The tour will be limited to 15 vehicles. No dogs, no campfires, no firearms, no trailers.<br />
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Sites visited during the tour will include Antelope Springs and the Susan Coon grave, Rabbithole Springs, Black Rock and Black Rock Springs, Double Hot Springs, Mud Meadows, the Lassen-Clapper murder site, Bruff’s “Descent into Fly Canyon,” High Rock Lake, High Rock Canyon (the “Post Office” cave, the “Jaquith” emigrant inscription, “The Narrows,” the Fox homestead at Yellow Rock Canyon, Israel Lord’s “Californian”), Upper High Rock Canyon, Bruff’s “Singular Rock,” Massacre Ranch, Painted Point, 49er Pass, Surprise Valley, Fandango Pass, and the descent to Goose Lake.<br />
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Chuck’s interpretation will be based on the diaries and journals of J. Goldsborough Bruff, captain of the 1849 “Washington City and California Mining Association” wagon train, Israel Shipman Pelton Lord, homeopathic doctor on the trail in 1849, and William Swain, Alonzo Delano and many others who left us a wealth of written records of their journeys along the trail. We will stop at the sites these overland emigrants described to read their descriptions, compare the landscape of today with the drawings they made in 1849, and cast our eyes about for the lost graves of the loved ones they left behind. We will sweat in the heat as they did and feel the night cold as they did and we will eat the dust as they did to capture their experience. But we will eat better than they did, we will ride instead of walk as they did , and the route will not be littered with the bones of dead mules and oxen as it was for them. The tour will be keyed to Chuck's new Guide to Traveling the Applegate-Lassen Trail. (Participants can purchase Chuck's guide for a special discount price of $20 plus applicable tax and shipping. See Chuck's web site, 19thcenturypublications.com for additional information.)<br />
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Each person on the tour will receive a copy of a different emigrant’s description of his journey, to be returned to Chuck at the end of the tour. Then, during the tour, each person will be asked to “represent” his or her emigrant by sharing the experiences of that emigrant with the other participants on the tour, by relating what the emigrant’s felt as he traveled through the area, by identifying things the emigrants described, by reading relevant parts of the description, and by asking questions prompted by the description.<br />
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Want to re-live the “emigrant experience” of the mid-nineteenth century? Want to see the spectacular Black Rock Desert and High Rock Canyon, essentially as it was when John Fremont first traveled through it 1843-44? Come join us on the “Emigrant Experience” Tour on the Applegate-Lassen Trail Across the Black Rock Desert and Through High Rock Canyon.<br />
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== TOUR PARTICIPANTS MUST RSVP BY July 19, 2009! ==<br />
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Who? Contact: Matthew “Metric” Ebert (775) 557-2900 metric@blackrockdesert.org<br />
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[http://blackrockdesert.org/wiki Playa Wiki Home] [http://blackrockdesert.org Friends of Black Rock High Rock Home]</div>Bchttps://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=Climate_and_Weather&diff=4786Climate and Weather2009-03-26T04:17:27Z<p>Bc: </p>
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<div>Black Rock Desert Nevada wiki [[Main Page]] / [[Climate and Weather]] <hr/><hr/><br />
<br/><br />
<b>Please see also:</b> Black Rock Desert <strong>[http://blackrockdesert.org/current/conditions.php Current Conditions]</strong><hr/><hr/><br />
<br/><br />
== Current Observations ==<br />
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[http://blackrockdesert.org/friends/current/conditions Black Rock Desert Current Conditions]<br />
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RAWS:<br />
* [http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/rawMAIN.pl?nvNBLU Bluewing Mountain]<br />
* [http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/rawMAIN.pl?nvNFOX Fox Mountain]<br />
* [http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/rawMAIN.pl?nvNBUF Buffalo Creek]<br />
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== Regional Conditions and Forecasts ==<br />
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[http://www.intellicast.com/Local/Weather.aspx?location=USNV0076 Intellicast.com - Local Weather in Reno, Nevada]<br />
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== Satellite Imagery ==<br />
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http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/satellite/?wfo=rev<br />
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== Fire Weather ==<br />
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http://www.nifc.gov/smokejumper/smjrpt.php<br />
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== Historic ==<br />
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http://www.micmacmedia.com/Sierra_Stories/Floods_in_Driest_State/floods_in_driest_state.html A less happy ending occurred on August 11, 1941 amid heavy thunderstorms that soaked much of Nevada. One-half mile of Western Pacific track washed out near Beowawe, causing 40 cars on a freight train to derail. Floodwaters rushed across U.S. 40. That day Fred Bishop and his wife were traveling east on U.S. 40 on their way to Chicago. Bishop, a veteran Western Pacific train agent, had acted as a weather observer at Sulphur, a lonely posting west of Winnemucca, for more than a quarter century.<br />
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When the Bishops encountered the muddy flow crossing the highway near Beowawe, they stopped and got out of the car. Tragically, Bishop was standing only a few feet from his wife when a surge of water caught him. Mrs. Bishop saw her husband swallowed by the torrent. She told a reporter, "As I got to high ground, he waved 'Goodbye, dear,' and that was the last I saw of him." Bishop's battered body was discovered the next day, five miles away.<br />
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== Climate ==<br />
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[http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/index.html NWS CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER] [http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/610day/fxus06.html 6-10 DAY OUTLOOK]<br />
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* [[Gerlach Nevada climate summary]]</div>Bchttps://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=Climate_and_Weather&diff=4785Climate and Weather2009-03-26T04:16:45Z<p>Bc: </p>
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<div>Black Rock Desert Nevada wiki [[Main Page]] / [[Climate and Weather]] <hr/><hr/><br />
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<b>Please see also:</b> Friends of Black Rock High Rock, Black Rock Desert [http://blackrockdesert.org/current/conditions.php Current Conditions]<hr/><hr/><br />
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== Current Observations ==<br />
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[http://blackrockdesert.org/friends/current/conditions Black Rock Desert Current Conditions]<br />
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RAWS:<br />
* [http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/rawMAIN.pl?nvNBLU Bluewing Mountain]<br />
* [http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/rawMAIN.pl?nvNFOX Fox Mountain]<br />
* [http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/rawMAIN.pl?nvNBUF Buffalo Creek]<br />
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== Regional Conditions and Forecasts ==<br />
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[http://www.intellicast.com/Local/Weather.aspx?location=USNV0076 Intellicast.com - Local Weather in Reno, Nevada]<br />
<br />
== Satellite Imagery ==<br />
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http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/satellite/?wfo=rev<br />
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== Fire Weather ==<br />
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http://www.nifc.gov/smokejumper/smjrpt.php<br />
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== Historic ==<br />
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http://www.micmacmedia.com/Sierra_Stories/Floods_in_Driest_State/floods_in_driest_state.html A less happy ending occurred on August 11, 1941 amid heavy thunderstorms that soaked much of Nevada. One-half mile of Western Pacific track washed out near Beowawe, causing 40 cars on a freight train to derail. Floodwaters rushed across U.S. 40. That day Fred Bishop and his wife were traveling east on U.S. 40 on their way to Chicago. Bishop, a veteran Western Pacific train agent, had acted as a weather observer at Sulphur, a lonely posting west of Winnemucca, for more than a quarter century.<br />
<br />
When the Bishops encountered the muddy flow crossing the highway near Beowawe, they stopped and got out of the car. Tragically, Bishop was standing only a few feet from his wife when a surge of water caught him. Mrs. Bishop saw her husband swallowed by the torrent. She told a reporter, "As I got to high ground, he waved 'Goodbye, dear,' and that was the last I saw of him." Bishop's battered body was discovered the next day, five miles away.<br />
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== Climate ==<br />
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[http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/index.html NWS CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER] [http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/610day/fxus06.html 6-10 DAY OUTLOOK]<br />
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* [[Gerlach Nevada climate summary]]</div>Bchttps://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=Climate_and_Weather&diff=4784Climate and Weather2009-03-26T04:16:16Z<p>Bc: added another link to current/conditions</p>
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<div>Black Rock Desert Nevada wiki [[Main Page]] / [[Climate and Weather]] <hr/><hr/><br />
<br/><br />
<b>Please see also:</b> Friends of Black Rock High Rock [http://blackrockdesert.org/current/conditions.php Current Conditions]<hr/><hr/><br />
<br/><br />
== Current Observations ==<br />
<br />
[http://blackrockdesert.org/friends/current/conditions Black Rock Desert Current Conditions]<br />
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RAWS:<br />
* [http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/rawMAIN.pl?nvNBLU Bluewing Mountain]<br />
* [http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/rawMAIN.pl?nvNFOX Fox Mountain]<br />
* [http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/rawMAIN.pl?nvNBUF Buffalo Creek]<br />
<br />
<br />
== Regional Conditions and Forecasts ==<br />
<br />
[http://www.intellicast.com/Local/Weather.aspx?location=USNV0076 Intellicast.com - Local Weather in Reno, Nevada]<br />
<br />
== Satellite Imagery ==<br />
<br />
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/satellite/?wfo=rev<br />
<br />
== Fire Weather ==<br />
<br />
http://www.nifc.gov/smokejumper/smjrpt.php<br />
<br />
== Historic ==<br />
<br />
http://www.micmacmedia.com/Sierra_Stories/Floods_in_Driest_State/floods_in_driest_state.html A less happy ending occurred on August 11, 1941 amid heavy thunderstorms that soaked much of Nevada. One-half mile of Western Pacific track washed out near Beowawe, causing 40 cars on a freight train to derail. Floodwaters rushed across U.S. 40. That day Fred Bishop and his wife were traveling east on U.S. 40 on their way to Chicago. Bishop, a veteran Western Pacific train agent, had acted as a weather observer at Sulphur, a lonely posting west of Winnemucca, for more than a quarter century.<br />
<br />
When the Bishops encountered the muddy flow crossing the highway near Beowawe, they stopped and got out of the car. Tragically, Bishop was standing only a few feet from his wife when a surge of water caught him. Mrs. Bishop saw her husband swallowed by the torrent. She told a reporter, "As I got to high ground, he waved 'Goodbye, dear,' and that was the last I saw of him." Bishop's battered body was discovered the next day, five miles away.<br />
<br />
== Climate ==<br />
<br />
[http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/index.html NWS CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER] [http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/610day/fxus06.html 6-10 DAY OUTLOOK]<br />
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* [[Gerlach Nevada climate summary]]</div>Bchttps://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=Railroad&diff=4675Railroad2008-08-20T16:37:59Z<p>Bc: http://www.trainweb.org/chris/Trip_PacificLimited.html</p>
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<div>[[Image:Western Pacific - Feather River Route.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Western Pacific - Feather River Route]]<br />
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== Crossings ==<br />
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Union Pacific Crossing Hotline: 1-800-848-8715<br />
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* SR447 = 833-409F<br />
* dunes = 833-410A (rumored to have been closed)<br />
* Frog = 833-411A<br />
* Trego = 833-412N<br />
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== Links ==<br />
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* http://www.nevadaheritage.com/timeline/timelinemainpage.htm www.nevadaheritage.com/timeline/timelinemainpage.htm -- May 1907: Construction began on the Western Pacific Railroad, third and last transcontinental rail line to cross Nevada. The Western Pacific Railroad Company, incorporated in 1903, planned to link Salt Lake City and Oakland, California, along the route of the National Wagon Road of 1856. The railroad was completed in 1909; crossed Sierra Nevada Mountains at Beckwourth Pass.<br />
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* http://www.wx4.org/to/foam/big_rr/wp/gerlach.html www.wx4.org/to/foam/big_rr/wp/gerlach.html --<br />
WP & US Gypsum at Gerlach, Nevada, Spring 1974<br />
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* http://www.wplives.com/operations/divisions/index.html www.wplives.com/operations/divisions --<br />
Western Pacific divisions<br />
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* http://www.scripophily.net/weparaco19.html http://www.scripophily.net/weparaco19.html<br />
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* http://www.wprrhs.org/index.html www.wprrhs.org -- Western Pacific Railroad Historical Society<br />
* http://www.wprrhs.org/links.html www.wprrhs.org/links.html -- (links)<br />
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* http://www.nsrm-friends.org/nsrm101.html www.nsrm-friends.org/nsrm101.html --<br />
... The locomotive was placed in storage and retired in 1918 because of declining business on the V&T. It was sold in 1924 to the Pacific Portland Cement Company of Gerlach, Nevada where it saw service as PPC Co. switcher No. 501 until 1931. In 1938 the Empire was donated to the Pacific Coast Chapter of the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area. There it remained until 1966 when it underwent a cosmetic restoration at Bethlehem Steel Corporation's San Francisco shipbuilding yards. ... <br />
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* http://www.cable-car-guy.com/html/ccsfwhensteam4.html www.cable-car-guy.com/html/ccsfwhensteam4.html --<br />
5 2-6-0 18x24 48" 124000 Baldwin 1908 Purchased new. Sold to Pacific Portland Cement Company as No. 2 in 1920; Operated at Pacific Portland Cement (PPC) plant, San Juan Bautista, 1927-1929, as No. 5; Operated at PPC plant Gerlach, Nevada as No. 5.<br />
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* http://www.trainweb.org/chris/Trip_PacificLimited.html www.trainweb.org/chris/Trip_PacificLimited.html -- (w/ pictures, July 1992) ... Following a great show by the 3985 we continued west snaking our way to Antelope. We turned northwest across the barren desert to Floka were we made a curve by Pulpit Rock to Sulphur. We passed there siding at Ronda before we got stopped by a red signal just east of Cholana with the Pahsupp Mountains to the south. A call went out to the dispatcher who was having trouble clearing the signal. Telling the crew it might be ten minutes or more, they asked if they could do a photo runby while they waited. ... A positive answer was given, we all detrained, the 3985 backed before charging by us staying in the red block. As soon as we were all back on the train, the signal turned green and off we went west. We passed the Trejo Hot Spring prior to Trejo then ran along the edge of the Black Rock Desert before we arrived at our servicing stop at Gerlach. We Granite Point to the north we left Gerlach heading across the valley before we turned to the northwest to Phil where we rounded the north end of the Fox Range. Here we entered the Smoke Creek Desert as we ran southwest to Reynard before turning south to Sano. From here we climbed the grade to Sand Pass. we pulled down to the curve to turn west where we stopped for our third runby of the day. It was well over the hundred degree mark as we detrained and all climbed up a steep slope to stand for the runby which just also happened to be the location of one of the largest rattlesnake dens in the world. There were holes everywhere but with the heat we hoped that we would not meet any of those creatures. ... The train backed far around the curve and with the Smoke Creek Desert in the background came charging and smoking around the curve below. It was one of the most impressive locations for a runby ever and as we all walked back down to the train everyone was talking about how great that runby was. ... <br />
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== Sidings ==<br />
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* http://www.notyourdomain.com/oldwest/places/wprr.htm www.notyourdomain.com/oldwest/places/wprr.htm --<br />
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listed West to East<br />
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1. Calneva, California<br />
2. Flanigan<br />
3. Sand Pass<br />
4. Bryant<br />
5. Sano<br />
6. Reynard<br />
7. Bronte<br />
8. Phil<br />
9. Gerlach<br />
10. Ascalon<br />
11. Trego<br />
12. Cholona<br />
13. Ronda<br />
14. Sulphur<br />
15. Floka<br />
16. Antelope<br />
17. Jungo<br />
18. Gaskell<br />
19. Pronto<br />
20. Raglan<br />
21. Krum<br />
22. Marcus<br />
23. Winnemucca<br />
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== Hazards == <br />
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[http://ian.kluft.com/blackrock/train-safety.html Train Safety Warning at Black Rock Desert]<br />
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[http://ian.kluft.com/blackrock/DeadTruck.jpg http://ian.kluft.com/blackrock/DeadTruck.jpg]</div>Bchttps://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=Soaring&diff=4479Soaring2008-07-31T17:08:14Z<p>Bc: intro sentence</p>
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<div>Sailplanes and Soaring at the Black Rock Desert <br />
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http://www.soarwest.com/images/fs5/pb-BlackRoc.jpg<br />
http://www.soarwest.com/fsphoto5.html<br />
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http://www.airsailing.org/ www.airsailing.org -- Air Sailing Gliderport<br />
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http://nsawebsite.freeservers.com/ nsawebsite.freeservers.com -- Nevada Soaring Association<br />
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http://www.soarforecast.com/ti.cgi?SUBJECT=TI&Upperstation=REV&Surfacestation=WMC&Forecasthigh=&MaxAltitude=25000 www.soarforecast.com/ti.cgi?SUBJECT=TI&Upperstation=REV&Surfacestation=WMC&Forecasthigh=&MaxAltitude=25000 --<br />
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http://weather.unisys.com/upper_air/skew/skew_KREV.html weather.unisys.com/upper_air/skew/skew_KREV.html --<br />
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http://www.garphoto.com/vegas/lv1.html www.garphoto.com/vegas/lv1.html --<br />
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http://www.simviation.com/fsgliders_7.htm www.simviation.com/fsgliders_7.htm --<br />
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http://www-frd.fsl.noaa.gov/mab/soundings/reply-skewt.cgi?data_source=MAPS&lon=-104.67&lat=39.87&airport=RNO www-frd.fsl.noaa.gov/mab/soundings/reply-skewt.cgi?data_source=MAPS&lon=-104.67&lat=39.87&airport=RNO -- <br />
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http://www-frd.fsl.noaa.gov/mab/soundings/reply-skewt.cgi?data_source=MAPS&lon=-104.67&lat=39.87&airport=TPH www-frd.fsl.noaa.gov/mab/soundings/reply-skewt.cgi?data_source=MAPS&lon=-104.67&lat=39.87&airport=TPH --<br />
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http://flybasa.org/index.php/weather/ flybasa.org/index.php/weather --<br />
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<div>* http://www.library.unr.edu/friends/hallfame/wheeler.html www.library.unr.edu/friends/hallfame/wheeler.html -- Nevada Writers Hall of Fame 1989<br />
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* http://www.library.unr.edu/specoll/mss/99-01.html www.library.unr.edu/specoll/mss/99-01.html -- A GUIDE TO THE RECORDS OF SESSIONS S. "BUCK" WHEELER, Collection No. 99-01<br />
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* http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0043-3810(198710)18%3A4%3C470%3AGITOAP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-C Review: Gentleman in the Outdoors: A Portrait of Max C. Fleischmann by Sessions S. Wheeler, Author(s) of Review: Charles L. Briggs, The Western Historical Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 4 (Oct., 1987), pp. 470-471<br />
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* [http://www.nvbooks.nevada.edu/books.asp?ID=1849 University of Nevada Press, Tahoe Heritage: The Bliss Family of Glenbrook, Nevada by Sessions S. Wheeler, William W. Bliss]<br />
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Tahoe Heritage is a lively chronicle of four generations of the pioneering Bliss family, beginning with Duane L. Bliss, a visionary who built an impressive lumbering business and later the renowned Glenbrook Inn. The inn was completed in 1907 and quickly became a destination for the elite of San Francisco. The hotel register contains the names of national figures who loved and frequented Glenbrook: Ulysses Grant, Joaquin Miller, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Clark Gable, and Rita Hayworth, to name a few. The Bliss family closed the inn in 1976. Anyone who has visited the Tahoe area, now a very different place from the idyllic days of Bliss family management, will enjoy this account of its growth and the remarkable family which brought it about.<br />
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Nevada's Black Rock desert <1994><br />
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Tahoe heritage : the Bliss family of Glenbrook, Nevada <1992>, Reno : University of Nevada Press<br />
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Gentleman in the outdoors : a portrait of Max C. Fleischmann <1985><br />
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Nevada desert sheepman / by Reginald Meaker as told to Sessions S. Wheeler and Gerald Meaker. <1981><br />
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Nevada's Black Rock desert / by Sessions S. Wheeler, and illustrated by J. Craig Sheppard. <1978>, Caldwell, Idaho : Caxton Printers<br />
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The Nevada desert, <1971> Caldwell, Idaho, Caxton Printers<br />
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The desert lake; the story of Nevada's Pyramid Lake <1967> Caldwell, Idaho, Caxton Printers<br />
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Paiute <1965> Caldwell, Idaho, Caxton Printers</div>Bchttps://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=File_talk:Resize_of_Img30228panccni.jpg&diff=4409File talk:Resize of Img30228panccni.jpg2008-07-15T05:48:51Z<p>Bc: </p>
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* http://www.nbmg.unr.edu/geothermal/gthome.htm www.nbmg.unr.edu/geothermal/gthome.htm -- Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, Geothermal Resources of Nevada<br />
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* http://www.unr.edu/Geothermal/pdffiles/Faulds06StructuralNWGB.pdf www.unr.edu/Geothermal/pdffiles/Faulds06StructuralNWGB.pdf -- Characterizing Structural Controls of Geothermal Fields in the Northwestern Great Basin: A Progress Report, James E. Faulds, Garrett S. Vice, Melissa L. Edwards, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, University of Nevada, Reno, NV Mark F. Coolbaugh, Great Basin Center for Geothermal Energy, University of Nevada, Reno, NV. Abstract: Considering a lack of recent volcanism, the abundant geothermal activity in the northwestern Great Basin is somewhat anomalous. The prolific activity may result from enhanced dilation on N- to NNE-striking normal faults induced by a transfer of NW-directed dextral shear from the Walker Lane to NW-directed extension in the Great Basin. Although faults control most geothermal activity in the Great Basin, few detailed investigations have been conducted on the specific structural controls of individual fields. Because knowledge of such structures would facilitate exploration models, we have embarked upon a regional study of the controls on geothermal activity, which includes detailed analysis of several fields, reconnaissance studies of many other fields, and compilation of existing data. Our findings from the Bradys, Desert Peak, Needle Rocks, Salt Wells, and Gerlach geothermal systems suggest that many fields occupy discrete steps in fault zones or lie in belts of intersecting, overlapping, and/or terminating faults. In addition, most fields are associated with steeply dipping faults and, in many cases, with Quaternary faults. The structural settings favoring geothermal activity all involve subvertical conduits of highly fractured rock along fault zones oriented approximately perpendicular to the least principal stress. Features indicative of these settings that may be helpful in guiding exploration include: 1) major steps in range-fronts, 2) interbasinal highs, 3) mountain ranges consisting of relatively low, discontinuous ridges, and 4) lateral terminations of mountain ranges.<br />
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* http://www.nbmg.unr.edu/geothermal/site.php?sid=san%20emidio%20desert www.nbmg.unr.edu/geothermal/site.php?sid=san%20emidio%20desert -- Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, San Emidio Desert<br />
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* http://geoheat.oit.edu/directuse/all/dui0189.htm geoheat.oit.edu/directuse/all/dui0189.htm -- Integrated Ingredients Dehydration, Empire (defunct)<br />
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* [http://keck.library.unr.edu/data/drg/drgs.html Keck Library] provides Nevada USGS Topo maps in Digital Raster Graphic (DRG) format<br />
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* http://207.234.246.163/Museum/USPRR-Wm_Husson-PANZOOM/26muddetails.htm 207.234.246.163/Museum/USPRR-Wm_Husson-PANZOOM/26muddetails.htm -- Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum, 1861 Steel Engraved Panorama from the Pacific Railroad Survey, after F. W. Egloffstein, Valley of the Mud Lakes, June 14th at 9am from Mud Lake Peak looking west (as shown on Map #3), Showing an expanse of 82 miles, 1854, The following locations on the Panorama are indicated by titles in the lower margin: Entrance to Madlin Pass, Eastern base of the Sierra Nevada, Survey Camp June 14 15 & 16, Great Boiling Spring Point, Mount Observation, Snowy Northern Range of the Sierra Nevada, Black Rock Range, Oreson Road entering the Sierra Nevada, Entrance of the Railroad line to the Valley of the Mud Lakes, Cold Spring Range (Divide between the Humboldt River and the Mud Lakes), Snowy Western Humboldt River Range. DETAIL SCANS <br />
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* http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=2090&category=Notes www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=2090&category=Notes -- Notes for Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) ... As noted in Hollywood Reporter news items, portions of Bad Day at Black Rock were shot on location in Lone Pine, CA. ...<br />
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* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Day_at_Black_Rock en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Day_at_Black_Rock -- ... Bad Day at Black Rock was filmed in Lone Pine, California and the nearby Alabama Hills, one of hundreds of movies that have been filmed in the area since 1920. The "town" of Black Rock, Arizona was built adjacent to the Lone Pine railroad station, which was the last stop on the Southern Pacific Railroad's "Jawbone Branch," which served the northern Mojave Desert and Owens Valley. ...<br />
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1843-12-30 "On both sides, the mountains showed often stupendous and curious-looking rocks, which at several places so narrowed the valley, that scarcely a pass was left for the camp. It was a singular place to travel through-shut up in the earth, a sort of chasm, the little strip of grass under our feet, the rough walls of bare rock on either hand, and the narrow strip of sky above. The grass to-night was abundant, and we encamped in high spirits." -- John C. Fremont<br />
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1846-07-21 http://dmla.clan.lib.nv.us/DOCS/shpo/markers/mark_49.htm Jesse and Lindsay Applegate headed south from Willamette Valley, Oregon, June 29, 1846, seeking a less hazardous route to that region from the east. On July 21, they came to a large meadow on the Humboldt River, what is now the nearby Rye Patch Reservoir. Thus they established the Applegate Trail.<br />
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1860-05-12 First Battle of Pyramid Lake http://dmla.clan.lib.nv.us/DOCS/shpo/markers/mark_148.htm Northern Paiute warriors, fighting to retain their way of life, decisively defeated a volunteer army from Virginia City and nearby settlements. The battle and consequent white retreat began with a skillful ambush north of Nixon and continued along the plateau on the opposite side of the Truckee River almost to the present site of Wadsworth.<br />
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* http://cotati.sjsu.edu/cockrill/d0010/d0010notes/LostBlackRockMine.html cotati.sjsu.edu/cockrill/d0010/d0010notes/LostBlackRockMine.html<br />
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From the History of the State of Nevada, by Thompson & West (1881):<br />
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The Black Rock Prospectors. In the summer of 1849, Allen Harding and two other parties, whose names are not known, at daylight one morning, left the emigrant road to hunt for game, being short of provisions. They were on their way from the States to California at the time, and had arrived, almost destitute, at a point between Black Rock and Mud Meadows, in what is now Humboldt County. The emigrant road in that country runs to the northwest in the direction of California, and these three men, in seeking game, for food, had passed into the mountains, to the northeast of it. It was a barren, desolate, burned region of black igneous rocks, and volcanic ashes, where they had gone, and the hunters found no game. On their return to camp about noon, they brought with them, however, a chunk of bright metal that weighed about twenty-five pounds, and pronouncing it silver, tried to get a man who was short of sufficient oxen to haul his own property, to take it to California for them. The party in question politely informed them that he would not pack it even though it were pure gold, and they were forced to leave it beside the road. Before going, however, they took a piece and melting it down, made a button by molding it in the sand. The button Allen Harding took with him to California, intending to raise a company, and go back to work his mine of native, or pure silver. When he arrived in the country about Mount Shasta he showed his specimen, and related the manner in which he had become possessed of it, and his narration was confirmed by the other two parties. He said that after becoming discouraged in their hunt for game they had started back down the mountain towards camp, and in doing so passed along the margin of a shallow gulch that had been cut by water, a little to the right. As they were going along some bright metallic substance lying in its bottom, and for a short distance up the banks, attracted their attention, and they went down to take a closer look. At first they supposed it was lead, but finally concluded the substance must be native silver; and there it lay scattered along the head of the wash, and sticking out from the sides of the gulch in chunks, from the size of a bean to thirty, forty, and fifty pounds. It was there by the wagon-load; an Aladdin's cave uncovered; and "there was millions in it," The gold miners of Shasta informed Mr. Harding it was gold they wanted; that they would not take the Black Rock country as a gift if it was all silver, and he soon came to think much in the same way himself. A great many people saw the button and pronounced it silver; when finally he sent it, in 1850, to San Francisco to be tested, and it was lost in the great fire that swept over the city that year. Eventually turning his attention to farming, he settled in Petaluma Valley, Sonoma County, California; and a little later a man named Frederick Alberding, coming form the Rogue River country, also located there, and became Harding's neighbor. One day the last comer chanced to hear the story of Harding's native silver mine, and he at once pronounced a decided belief in its being a genuine find, stating that the same story had been told him in the Rogue River country by a party who said he was one of the original discoverers. The result of all this was the organization of a company in Petaluma to go and locate it. The members of the company were M. S. Thompson, now a State Senator in Nevada; Allen Harding, A. B. Jamison, Fred. Alberding, H. Whiteside, Charles Humphries, Major James Pingley, Holt Fine, P. McGuire, and ---- Oman, and they all arrived at Black Rock in quest of this Silverado, on the eighth of July, 1858. For three years Thompson, Harding and Jamison searched for this treasure-house of the mountain-gnomes with parties numbering sometimes as high as seventy members, but the invisible wand had been waved over the spot. Its lurking-place became an ignisfatuus--tantalizing the brain, and luring the prospector to his death among the rocks at the hands of prowling bands of savages, that were never at peace with the whites in that locality. It was never found, and the search was futile, but Mr. Thompson still believes that Harding told the truth. He believes that the mineral had recently been sluiced out by a water-spout, and thus exposed to view when seen in 1849, and that the storms of the years that intervened, before the place was sought again, had caved the banks and covered up the deposit and washings from the country around. At the time of the battle with the Pah-Utes, when they defeated Major Ormsby, in 1860, M. S. Thompson, with a party of about seventy men, was out in the Black Rock country searching for the lost mine, when he received news by a pony express that the Indians were laying waste the whole country, and also a call for him to come in and help protect the settlers in Honey Lake Valley. The request was promptly complied with, and none of the original Black Rock prospectors ever went back to that country again in search of the lost treasure-house of the gnomes.<br />
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Footnote 21. Hardin brought specimens to Cal.; but the Indians being troublesome, nothing could be done until 1858, when he revisited that region with Albert E. Jamison and others. They failed to find the spot, and on the following year he repeated the search with like result. In 1860 several hundred prospectors were looking for the lost mine, but their search was interrupted by Indian hostilities. Late in 1865, however, Jamison discovered rich prospects, and in 1866 Hardinville was settled. S. F. Alta, March 1862 [articles about Indian problems in the area], and Sept. 6, 1866. Mining in Humboldt county became profitable about 1869.<br />
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San Francisco Alta, Vol XVII, No. 6022, Tuesday Morning, Sept. 6, 1866:<br />
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We give below some interesting extracts from a letter, written by Col. A. G. Brackett, to his brother in this city, concerning the "Black Rock silver mines." His letter is dated at Camp McGarry, Summit Lake, Nevada, August 25th, 1866:<br />
The silver region at Black Rock, Nevada, was discovered by a Mr. Hardin and two other gentlemen, in September, 1849. Hardin was an emigrant from Illinois, and was on his way to California. He was out hunting in the Black Rock range, and while descending the mountains about a mile and a half back of the place where the town of Hardinville is now located, he discovered virgin silver, some of which he carried into the valley of the Great Mud Lake Plains, and subsequently took it to California. At that time he tried to induce some emigrants to join him and return to the mountain, but could not prevail upon any of them to do so. The Indians were hostile; the teams had given out; they were disheartened, and all of them wished to get to the more valuable gold fields of California. From this time for several years, little or nothing was thought about Black Rock. In 1858, Hardin, with Mr. Albert E. Jamison and two others, went from Petaluma, California, to the range, to find it possible the ledge which hardin discovered in 1849. They could not succeed in finding it, and returned home. In 1859, they tried again with no better success, and in 1860 again, when there were at least two hundred prospectors in the country, many of whom were driven off by the Indians.<br />
Nothing of any interest happened until the autumn of 1865, although various parties had been through the range in many directions, and late in the fall of 1865 Mr. Jamison discovered on the Foreman location some ore, which proved to be "born silver," from assays made by Mr. Isenbeck. On the 1st of January, 1866, several miners arrived at the range, among whom were Jamison, Harvey, O'Donnell and others. The first house was erected by Mr. Harvey, in March, 1866. Previous to this and on the 6th of January, 1866, the "Snow Storm Ledge" was found by Charles Wright and Dick Nichols. Since that time new discoveries are being made every day, and the settlers are sanguine that they have the richest mines in the world. As to the future, time alone can determine. There are now two settlements in the range, one at Double Springs, where there are half a dozen houses: the other at Ram's Horn, so called from a pair of mountain sheep's horns found on that ground. This place is now known as Hardinville, in honor of the discoverer, and here there are fifteen well-built houses. A restaurant has been started, and the first white woman has made her appearance. The village contains a good stable, though as yet no hotel has been started. The settlers are very hospitable, sharing everything with strangers, and appearing anxious that their mines may be seen and examined by everyone. They are all well armed, and thus far they have had no trouble with Indians. The length of the range is claimed to be thirty-two miles, and work which amounts to anything, has been done on only four claims.<br />
The appearance of the country is as forbidding as can be imagined. The immense Mud Lake Plains, like the Valley of the Dead Sea, stretch out in the distance, and near the mountains themselves there is but a dwarf growth of sage-brush. The springs at Hardinville are hot and slightly impregnated with sulphur. In fact there is nothing cheering about the whole region to a stranger; but the settlers themselves, most of them experienced miners, are cheered with the belief which has taken hold upon their minds, that this is the richest mineral region on earth, and if what they show you is really and truly silver ore the world has not seen its equal.<br />
A five-stamp mill has been purchased by a company, which is said to be on its way up to the mines. Until then, nothing can truly be known about them. Many loads of ore have been sent off and worked, some with good success, and some quite the reverse. One thing only is certain, which is, either these mines are the finest yet discovered, or the grandest humbug of the age. A person is prepared beforehand to see something out of the common way, but when one is piloted up a ravine some half a mile, and shown a ledge of rocks nearly eighty feet high, and some two miles wide which is claimed to be silver ore, one is taken "all aback." People go there believing something in the mines, and come away believing nothing in them, or not knowing what to believe. It has been called the mysterious silver region, and such it is, for no man as yet knows anything about it.<br />
Thus I have given you a brief account of the Black Rock region, which you may rely upon as true in every particular. I have exaggerated in no respect, but, on the contrary, given you the darkest side of the picture. One year hence will tell the story, and I would not be at all surprised if the town of Hardinville were then as Virginia City is now. The miners of Black Rock will die by their claims. Not one of them wishes to sell out.<br />
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"RIPTIDES: The Lost Black Rock Mine," <br />
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In 1849, a wagon train of emigrants moved slowly over the Applegate, or Lassen trail. Ultimately, it reached the Queen's river desert in Northwestern Nevada, and a volcanic range of mountains. This desolate ridge was called the Black Rock mountains, because it terminated in a great dark peak that shouldered high above the surrounding wasteland. <br />
By this time, food was running low. And the day the migrants camped on the desert trail beneath the Black Rock foothills, James Allen Hardin set off through the greasewood brush with his rifle in hope of getting a deer, or a few rabbits, for supper.<br />
Three or four miles from a desert hot spring (beside which Fremont had camped four years before). Hardin reached a small ravine. He noticed a curious brightness to its earth. Investigating, he saw that the floor of the ravine was strewn with a metal, a wagonload or more of it. He hefted some in his hand, "Lead, I guess," he said to himself. When he returned to camp that evening, he had no game: but he did bring back 30 or 40 pounds of the metal.<br />
They melted it down and molded it into bullets -- all but a small fragment, which Hardin saved as a souvenir. The train proceeded on its journey to California. Hardin settled in Petaluma, where he made a living as a carpenter.<br />
Nine years passed. One day, idly, Hardin told a friend about the strange earth of the Black Rock ravine and showed him the souvenir. "Don't know what it is, but it made damned fine bullets," he said. The friend examined it closely. "Ever have it assayed?" he asked. No, said Hardin, he had never gone to that much trouble about it.<br />
"Do you mind if I have it tested?"<br />
Hardin shrugged, "Sure, go ahead," he laughed.<br />
Not long after that, the friend returned. He was very excited. "We've got to go there!" he exclaimed, "We've got to leave now!"<br />
"Where? What for?" asked the perplexed carpenter.<br />
"To the ravine! This almost pure silver!"<br />
In the summer of that year, a dozen Petalumans guided by Hardin crossed the Sierra in quest of the Black Rock mine. But when Hardin reached the place where the wagon train had camped and the hot spring it seemed to him that the land, the contours of the locality, had shifted. Nothing about it looked familiar. For three months he and his companions searched in vain for the ravine and the ledge of silver.<br />
In time, news of the search for the Hardin ledge spread. Lassen county prospectors headed pellmell for the Black Rock mountains, and more came up from the Comstock mines to the south. One of them freighted 500 pounds of Black Rock ore to the Dall mill in the Washoe valley, that had been working ore from the Comstock's fabulous Ophir mine. In the test, it yielded silver at the rate of $306 a ton. Other specimens, taken from other mills in the Comstock area, produced silver at rates as high as $2700 to the ton.<br />
By 1866, the run to Black Rock was on in earnest. A small desert community appeared beside the claims -- the Black Prince, the Snow Storm, the Emerald, the Merrimac, the Monadnock, the Black Wax. "The Evans boys of Long valley," reported a Washoe City newspaper in July, 1866, "are about building a mill at Hardin City, a city of 15 houses and 15,000 rats, and expect to have it in running order by October 1. The people of Black Rock think they have enough treasure there to build a railroad from Chico to Vallejo with silver rails..."<br />
But ton after ton of ore was run through the Evans mill and through the mill erected there by Atchinson & Company of San Francisco without yielding the faintest trace of silver. They tried one reduction process, and then another, but each one failed. After spending $17,000 on their mill and mining operations, the Evans brothers set out half a barrel of whisky, got drunk with the rest of the camp and abandoned the venture. The Atchinson mill moved. By 1869, Hardin City was a ghost town, inhabited only by the rats, and the ledges were left to the desert sun.<br />
What was the answer to this strange riddle? Why was the ore so rich in the tests, and yet worthless when crushed by the mills of Hardin City? Silver men believed that the Black Rock ore crushed in the Dall mill and others near the Comstock had picked up the silver left in their batteries and pans from the crushing of the rich Comstock ore. Other believed that the Evans brothers' assayist had falsely reported large quantities of silver in the Black Rock ore to insure the construction of the mill and the permanence of his job.<br />
But there were prospectors who had faith in the silver ledges, and went on searching for them. Desert storms, they said, had filled Hardin's ravine with sand and covered the bright earth. the day would come they said, when the desert storms would again lay it bare...<br />
Until this happens, the silver Hardin found in `49 lies in a lost mine that, like the Lost Cabin, the Lost Waterfall, the Lost Pegleg and the others, seems a mirage of long ago, and exists now only in the legends of the West.<br />
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From the San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Apr 1949<br />
"RIPTIDES: Postscript to "Lost Black Rock Mine," <br />
by Robert O'Brien:<br />
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Material supplied by William Aston of 2455 Twenty-sixth avenue has helped to add a detail or two to the story of the Lost Black Rock Mine that was related here a month ago.<br />
Briefly to recall the column, a ravine floored with metal that was almost pure silver was discovered in the Black Rock mountains, a desolate range bordering the Queens river desert of north western Nevada. The discoverer was James Allen Hardin, a hunter for an emigrant train that in 1849 was headed west for California along the Lassen trail.<br />
In 1858, Hardin and others returned to the Black Rock mountains to look for the silver. They never found it. The next year, Peter Lassen, one of the great California pioneers, was shot to death while seeking the Black Rock mine, and the identity of his assassin remains today one of the desert mysteries of the West.<br />
A few years later, there was a minor rush to the Black Rock country. The tiny boom town of Hardin City sprang up in the barren foothills by the desert and then was abandoned as the claims proved worthless. The fabulous ledges seen by Hardin had vanished.<br />
Aston read this story and sent me a faded clipping from a newspaper. The clipping was not dated. Advertisements on the reverse side would lead one to believe it came from a paper published in Stockton, although they, of course, would be conclusive evidence to that effect.<br />
The headline of the clipping reads, "Legend of Fabulous Wealth Lures Men Into Wilds," and the wilderness it refers to is the same Black Rock mountain region where the wagon train camped for the night, and where Hardin went on a hunting trip and stumbled onto the ravine.<br />
The story I wrote ended with the late 1860's and told of the quest for Black Rock silver. The story told in the clipping says that 40 years after that, in 1909, a man prospecting in the Black Rock mountains discovered three hill phenomenally rich, not in silver but in gold.<br />
He was a Doctor Gould manage of a gypsum plant near Reno. From the three hills, he took samples that assayed $800 to $80,000 a ton. He carefully marked the veins and the scene of the discovery and returned to Reno to make arrangements for the development of the deposit. But as it had been with Hardin's ravine, so it was with the gold mine of Doctor Gould. When he and his party went back to the mountains, they found no trace of the veins or the markers he had left. Even the three hills had vanished.<br />
"The canyon and the mesa were there, but the golden lure had dissolved like a desert mirage. For days the search vainly continued. Other parties went out from Reno, Winnemucca, Seven Troughs and other towns. The region was thoroughly searched. And only the ore samples and assay certificates remained to prove Doctor Gould had not been the victim of a mirage."<br />
For a number of years after that, prospectors and their burros plodded over the Queens river desert and the Black Rock foothills, seeking among the shifting dunes the treasure they knew lay there, somewhere. One day, they knew, someone would find it, when the searing winds again uncovered the earth in a certain place and once more bared the glittering metallic streaks. But it never happened this way for them, and so riches enough to make any man as wealthy as a king, both in silver and gold, are still out there, hidden in the drifting desert wastes.<br />
It is said that one other white man has seen the golden treasure veins that Gould discovered and lost nearly half a century ago. When they go into the desert towns and sit over their drinks, the old prospectors still wag their dusty beards over his strange ironic fate.<br />
This man, like themselves, was a prospector. Somehow he discovered that the Indians of a particular tribe knew of the Black Rock gold. He cultivated the acquaintance of a maiden of the tribe. She fell in love with him. Cleverly, he made her believe that he returned her affection. She trusted him so thoroughly that at last she yielded the tribal secret and led him to the mine. It was rich beyond his fondest dreams.<br />
Now, with a great fortune in his grasp, he roughly cast the Indian girl aside, laughed at her grief, and prepared to journey to the nearest white settlement to file his claim. But before he could leave, the maiden avenged her betrayal. Drugging him, she dragged him to the mine, and chained him to the gleaming golden ledge, and left him there to die in the desert sun.<br />
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Stalking Elephants in Nevada <br />
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Western Folklore, Vol. 35, No. 4 (Oct., 1976), pp. 250-257<br />
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1843-12-30 "On both sides, the mountains showed often stupendous and curious-looking rocks, which at several places so narrowed the valley, that scarcely a pass was left for the camp. It was a singular place to travel through-shut up in the earth, a sort of chasm, the little strip of grass under our feet, the rough walls of bare rock on either hand, and the narrow strip of sky above. The grass to-night was abundant, and we encamped in high spirits." -- John C. Fremont<br />
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1844-01-10 John C. Fremont named Pyramid Lake<br />
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1846-07-21 http://dmla.clan.lib.nv.us/DOCS/shpo/markers/mark_49.htm Jesse and Lindsay Applegate headed south from Willamette Valley, Oregon, June 29, 1846, seeking a less hazardous route to that region from the east. On July 21, they came to a large meadow on the Humboldt River, what is now the nearby Rye Patch Reservoir. Thus they established the Applegate Trail.<br />
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1848-02-02 The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo<br />
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1849-08-16 "We started about six o'clock, with anxious hearts and sad forebodings on our perilous journey . . . As I walked on slowly and with effort, I encountered a great many animals, perishing for want of food and water, on the desert plain. Some would be gasping for breath, others unable to stand, would issue low moans as I came up . . . my sympathies were excited at their sufferings, yet, instead of affording them aid, I was a subject for relief myself . . . after covering nearly forty hours without food or water . . .we found this to be an oasis in the desert. A large hot spring [Black Rock Spring] . . . but we found the grass nearly consumed, and our cattle could barely pick enough to sustain life. (Alonzo Delano, August 16-17, 1849)<br />
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1849-09-25 "The road terminated as it were, at the edge of the very apex of this hill, and I looked down . . . the declevity and its base, retained vestiges of unfortunate traveling in the shape of broken wagons, wheels, hubs, tires, axels, and 3 dead oxen. (Goldsborough Bruff, September 25, 1849)<br />
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1860-05-12 First Battle of Pyramid Lake http://dmla.clan.lib.nv.us/DOCS/shpo/markers/mark_148.htm Northern Paiute warriors, fighting to retain their way of life, decisively defeated a volunteer army from Virginia City and nearby settlements. The battle and consequent white retreat began with a skillful ambush north of Nixon and continued along the plateau on the opposite side of the Truckee River almost to the present site of Wadsworth.<br />
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1860-06-12 Second Battle of Pyramid Lake http://dmla.clan.lib.nv.us/DOCS/shpo/markers/mark_148.htm a strong force of volunteers and regular U.S. Army troops engaged the Indians in battle along the tableland and mountainside. Several hundred braves, attempting a delaying action to allow their women, children and elders to escape, fought with such courage and strategy that the superior Caucasian forces were held back during the day until the Indians withdrew. Paiute war leader Numaga (Young Winnemucca), described as a "superior man of any race," desired only peace for his people.<br />
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1865 http://dmla.clan.lib.nv.us/DOCS/shpo/markers/mark_162.htm Camp McGarry here on the old Applegate Trail was an Army fort manned from 1865 to 1868. Troops protected the Idaho-California mail and stage roads and the nearby trails in Nevada and Oregon. Officers' quarters, mess hall, barracks and a 100-horse stone barn were constructed 12 miles south of the fort. In 1866, Camp McGarry was made headquarters of the District of Nevada. In autumn, 1868, troops were moved to Camp Winfield Scott, north of Paradise, Nevada; and Camp McGarry, largest military reservation in Nevada, comprising 75 square miles, was abandoned.<br />
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2000-12-21 President Clinton signed The Black Rock Desert - High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trail National Conservation Area Act of 2000, which established 797,000 acres as a NCA and about 75,000 acres as wilderness.</div>Bchttps://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=Timeline&diff=3780Timeline2008-02-07T23:24:06Z<p>Bc: </p>
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1843-12-30 "On both sides, the mountains showed often stupendous and curious-looking rocks, which at several places so narrowed the valley, that scarcely a pass was left for the camp. It was a singular place to travel through-shut up in the earth, a sort of chasm, the little strip of grass under our feet, the rough walls of bare rock on either hand, and the narrow strip of sky above. The grass to-night was abundant, and we encamped in high spirits." -- John C. Fremont<br />
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1844-01-10 John C. Fremont named Pyramid Lake<br />
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1846-07-21 http://dmla.clan.lib.nv.us/DOCS/shpo/markers/mark_49.htm Jesse and Lindsay Applegate headed south from Willamette Valley, Oregon, June 29, 1846, seeking a less hazardous route to that region from the east. On July 21, they came to a large meadow on the Humboldt River, what is now the nearby Rye Patch Reservoir. Thus they established the Applegate Trail.<br />
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1848-02-02 The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo<br />
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1849-08-16 "We started about six o'clock, with anxious hearts and sad forebodings on our perilous journey . . . As I walked on slowly and with effort, I encountered a great many animals, perishing for want of food and water, on the desert plain. Some would be gasping for breath, others unable to stand, would issue low moans as I came up . . . my sympathies were excited at their sufferings, yet, instead of affording them aid, I was a subject for relief myself . . . after covering nearly forty hours without food or water . . .we found this to be an oasis in the desert. A large hot spring [Black Rock Spring] . . . but we found the grass nearly consumed, and our cattle could barely pick enough to sustain life. (Alonzo Delano, August 16-17, 1849)<br />
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1849-09-25 "The road terminated as it were, at the edge of the very apex of this hill, and I looked down . . . the declevity and its base, retained vestiges of unfortunate traveling in the shape of broken wagons, wheels, hubs, tires, axels, and 3 dead oxen. (Goldsborough Bruff, September 25, 1849)<br />
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1859-04-26 d. Peter Lassen<br />
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1860-05-12 First Battle of Pyramid Lake http://dmla.clan.lib.nv.us/DOCS/shpo/markers/mark_148.htm Northern Paiute warriors, fighting to retain their way of life, decisively defeated a volunteer army from Virginia City and nearby settlements. The battle and consequent white retreat began with a skillful ambush north of Nixon and continued along the plateau on the opposite side of the Truckee River almost to the present site of Wadsworth.<br />
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1860-06-12 Second Battle of Pyramid Lake http://dmla.clan.lib.nv.us/DOCS/shpo/markers/mark_148.htm a strong force of volunteers and regular U.S. Army troops engaged the Indians in battle along the tableland and mountainside. Several hundred braves, attempting a delaying action to allow their women, children and elders to escape, fought with such courage and strategy that the superior Caucasian forces were held back during the day until the Indians withdrew. Paiute war leader Numaga (Young Winnemucca), described as a "superior man of any race," desired only peace for his people.<br />
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2000-12-21 President Clinton signed The Black Rock Desert - High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trail National Conservation Area Act of 2000, which established 797,000 acres as a NCA and about 75,000 acres as wilderness.</div>Bchttps://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=Timeline&diff=3779Timeline2008-02-07T23:22:09Z<p>Bc: </p>
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1843-12-30 "On both sides, the mountains showed often stupendous and curious-looking rocks, which at several places so narrowed the valley, that scarcely a pass was left for the camp. It was a singular place to travel through-shut up in the earth, a sort of chasm, the little strip of grass under our feet, the rough walls of bare rock on either hand, and the narrow strip of sky above. The grass to-night was abundant, and we encamped in high spirits." -- John C. Fremont<br />
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1844-01-10 John C. Fremont named Pyramid Lake<br />
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1848-02-02 The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo<br />
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1849-08-16 "We started about six o'clock, with anxious hearts and sad forebodings on our perilous journey . . . As I walked on slowly and with effort, I encountered a great many animals, perishing for want of food and water, on the desert plain. Some would be gasping for breath, others unable to stand, would issue low moans as I came up . . . my sympathies were excited at their sufferings, yet, instead of affording them aid, I was a subject for relief myself . . . after covering nearly forty hours without food or water . . .we found this to be an oasis in the desert. A large hot spring [Black Rock Spring] . . . but we found the grass nearly consumed, and our cattle could barely pick enough to sustain life. (Alonzo Delano, August 16-17, 1849)<br />
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1849-09-25 "The road terminated as it were, at the edge of the very apex of this hill, and I looked down . . . the declevity and its base, retained vestiges of unfortunate traveling in the shape of broken wagons, wheels, hubs, tires, axels, and 3 dead oxen. (Goldsborough Bruff, September 25, 1849)<br />
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1859-04-26 d. Peter Lassen<br />
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1860-05-12 First Battle of Pyramid Lake http://dmla.clan.lib.nv.us/DOCS/shpo/markers/mark_148.htm Northern Paiute warriors, fighting to retain their way of life, decisively defeated a volunteer army from Virginia City and nearby settlements. The battle and consequent white retreat began with a skillful ambush north of Nixon and continued along the plateau on the opposite side of the Truckee River almost to the present site of Wadsworth.<br />
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1860-06-12 Second Battle of Pyramid Lake http://dmla.clan.lib.nv.us/DOCS/shpo/markers/mark_148.htm a strong force of volunteers and regular U.S. Army troops engaged the Indians in battle along the tableland and mountainside. Several hundred braves, attempting a delaying action to allow their women, children and elders to escape, fought with such courage and strategy that the superior Caucasian forces were held back during the day until the Indians withdrew. Paiute war leader Numaga (Young Winnemucca), described as a "superior man of any race," desired only peace for his people.<br />
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2000-12-21 President Clinton signed The Black Rock Desert - High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trail National Conservation Area Act of 2000, which established 797,000 acres as a NCA and about 75,000 acres as wilderness.</div>Bchttps://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=Links&diff=3778Links2008-02-07T23:10:14Z<p>Bc: </p>
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* http://supreme.justia.com/us/339/725/case.html supreme.justia.com/us/339/725/case.html --<br />
U.S. v. GERLACH LIVE STOCK CO., 339 U.S. 725 (1950)<br />
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* http://outside.away.com/outside/magazine/1198/9811outthere.html outside.away.com/outside/magazine/1198/9811outthere.html -- <br />
Outside Magazine, November 1998,<br />
Ode to a Buck-Naked Cowboy,<br />
Is there poetry — or adventure — to be found among the silver sage, flat tires, and unlikely characters of the Black Rock Desert? Maybe.,<br />
By Tim Cahill<br />
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* http://www.stratofox.org/twiki/bin/view/BlackRock/WebHome Stratofox's Black Rock Desert Wiki Rocketry and Aerospace<br />
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* http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&z=9&ll=40.970826,-119.001331&spn=1.184096,2.557068&t=h&om=1 Google Maps<br />
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* http://maps.yahoo.com/beta/#mvt=h&trf=0&lon=-119.001331&lat=40.970826&mag=9 Yahoo Maps<br />
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* http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com terraserver<br />
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* kml<br />
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* David Rumsey Maps<br />
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* http://www.vterrain.org/Locations/us/nevada/us-nv.html<br />
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* http://www.scenicnevada.org/last/black_rock.html ScenicNevada.org<br />
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* http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/104-0377295-8340768?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Sessions%20S.%20Wheeler Sessions S. Wheeler<br />
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* http://www.nohorse.com/blog/archives/2006/05/trip_to_gerlach.html www.nohorse.com/blog/archives/2006/05/trip_to_gerlach.html<br />
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* http://www.smithsonianmagazine.com/issues/1999/april/desert.php www.smithsonianmagazine.com/issues/1999/april/desert.php<br />
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* http://www.nvarch.org/ www.nvarch.org<br />
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* western mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis)<br />
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* http://www.westernfolklife.org/ www.westernfolklife.org/<br />
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* http://metamedia.stanford.edu/~mshanks/weblog/?p=183 metamedia.stanford.edu/~mshanks/weblog/?p=183 -- wicker man<br />
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* http://www.nevadaappeal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030720/OPINION/307200201 nevadaappeal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030720/OPINION/307200201<br />
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* http://www.nvwf.org/links.php nvwf.org/links.php<br />
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* http://www.keisterphoto.com/golf/main.htm keisterphoto.com/golf/main.htm<br />
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* http://www.nv.blm.gov/Winnemucca/recreation/Driving_Black_Rock.html nv.blm.gov/Winnemucca/recreation/Driving_Black_Rock.html<br />
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* http://www.mapsurfer.com/boxes/box22.html mapsurfer.com/boxes/box22.html<br />
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* http://www.desert-survivors.org/Desert%20Trail%202005/Nevada%20Desert%20Trail%202005.htm desert-survivors.org <br />
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* http://www.wildnevada.org/news/legislative-successes/the-black-rock-desert---high-rock-canyon-emigrant-trails-national-conservation-area-act-of-2000.html wildnevada.org/news/legislative-successes/the-black-rock-desert<br />
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* http://www.greatbasinguide.com/Geyser.html greatbasinguide.com/Geyser.html<br />
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* http://www.stopburningman.org/ stopburningman.org<br />
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* http://www.discovernlcs.org/TheNLCS/ConservationAreas/BlackRockDesert.cfm www.discovernlcs.org/TheNLCS/ConservationAreas/BlackRockDesert.cfm<br />
National Landscape Conservation System, Black Rock Desert-High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area<br />
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* http://wolfweb.unr.edu/homepage/pgoin/black_rock.htm wolfweb.unr.edu/homepage/pgoin/black_rock.htm</div>Bc