Pics up taken from Baker Village Archaeological Site, which is just outside Baker, Nevada, and at the foot of Mt. Wheeler, third pic from top. I didn't climb Wheeler, not enough time in a one day visit, but John Muir did!
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“we made the assent of the peak just after the first storm had whitened its summit and brightened the atmosphere. The foot slopes are like those of the Troy range, only more evenly clad with grass. After tracing a long, rugged ridge of exceedingly hard quartzite, said to veined here and there with gold, we came to the summit, a thousand feet above the timber line, its slopes heavily tree-clad.”
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A couple links:
Archaeology at the Top of Nevada:
Geodetic Surveys of 1878-1895
by
Gregory R. Seymour
Trails Past, Inc.
Nevada Archaeological Association
Ely, Nevada April 2007
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Yesterday's postup: Arrived in Tuolumne in time to watch Sunset on Mt. Gibb and Mt. Dana, and snack on pizza from the mobil station...pic..at a pullout by Walker River, just south of Topaz Lake, on 395, which was at the end of the Loneliest Hwy (50) roll (actually, Fallon, Nevada is pretty much the end)...at the pullout rest area, I heard what I thought was DownyOrHariy Woopecker Young chirping...and sighted instead Redbreasted Woodpecker....set up for pics, and Mama Woodpecker was back and forth, and a long time between trips...not much luck with pics, and Baby Woodpecker got impatient, it seems, and came out of the Nest Hole in the Cottonwood!...would have liked to stay to see what Mama Woodpecker made of this, but time....sometimes see Redbreasted Woodpeckers hereabout in the Fall on the Dogwoods in the Backyard...time is a real problem on the rollabouts...time and distance from motel made Wheeler problematic, and Notch Mountain in the far distance, not as far as I rolled, but just as far as I saw!, is on the to do list!!...
Today: walked back and forth to the Village in the morning...errand, lost my id card, and needed to replace it...and napped....sunny hot blue....Silver's front suspension wobble came back coming down the grade to Mono Lake...and I will likely go to Town tomorrow for repair, I think!...gardeners working taking down dangerous Trees ready to topple from Creek's erosion by the Footbridge...have a neat clip, for sometime.. at dinner, talked, listened mostly, with friends about schools we went to as kids (Queens, NY, Chicago, Ill, Garden Grove, CA), and on the way back, and in a reverie, Mama Doe rose up and protested--I almost stepped on Doe!...didn't see Fawns...oh...checking the blog, I see tonight the clips aren't working on all the posts...hmmph....
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