A personal geography of landscape and place, art and geo-science.
Sherman Peak 8957 ft (2639 m) – 2464 ft gain 2021.12.19 Sherman Peak – Paradise Range Collection Winter’s coming, and the first snows have arrived. Although it snowed a little at StoneHeart in Carson Valley, I had watched the storms reorganize over the central Great Basin. How much would there
Cuprite Hills HP (Peak 6071) 6071 ft (1850 m) — 1503 ft gain 2021.03.10 When I first imagined a quest of climbing to the high point of each of Nevada’s named mountain ranges, as I studied my collection of topographic maps, it came as a solution to a problem. As
I spent the day, having started well before sunrise, on an overland obsidian recce focused on the geomorphology and distribution of the Majuba and Seven Troughs toolstone sources. A series of dramatic snow squalls cut that effort short just as I reached the ‘High Road’ from Sulphur to Gerlach. However,
Continue readingLandscape Photography: Late Snow and Last Light on the Black Rock Playa, Nevada
As I mentioned in my previous post, after months of futile attempts, I have resolved for 2020 to stick to a pattern of ‘second’ and ‘fourth’ Fridays. Second Friday is an outback or travel excursion combining field studies and photography, while Fourth Friday brings in a weekend of focused local
Oh, and it was now -16F, so the cold smacked me hard when I jumped out of the truck. … Continue readingDeep Freeze at Bridgeport Reservoir, CA