craig333
Riley's Human
Okay, its technically the Fort Churchill to Wellington Backcountry byway but since I skipped the Fort Churchill part Carson is more accurate.
Had a three day weekend except for the Dental appointment friday morning and I really needed to get out. Where to go? Not enough time to do Great Basin and if its a only a weekend might as well stay close and save my funds for bigger trip later. Noticed the byway and thought maybe I'd do that. Headed out and headed up the Mormon Emigrant trail. I knew it wasn't open to 88 (and glad now, would have been much harder to find the route going the other way) but I thought I could make it to the Silver Fork road and then over to 50. Found a nice spot to camp near the top of the Strawberry Creek Road (all paved roads, dirt roads still aren't open). Some snow for the dog to play in. Why the Silver Fork is gated at Kyburz but the Strawberry road isn't kind of boggles me but I'm glad. Enough snow on the road to keep out most people.
Next day I decided to head to Genoa since I've never been there (my dad says I have but I must have been pretty young. Had a beer at the oldest bar in Nevada.
Then it was over to the BLM office and decide whether to river portion or the Pine Nut Mountains portion. The BLM office isn't open on Saturdays Hmmm, do the river part and I won't get lost or go have an adventure. All I have for maps is my Benchmark Nevada Road and Recreation Atlas. I need to send a nasty gram to the Carson BLM. It seems they don't believe in signage. Nowhere is a sign saying its a byway and very little signage at all. Only three signs on the whole trip denoting destination and mileage and a few 009 carsonite signs. Weather is looking threatening but I head off anyway.
Had a three day weekend except for the Dental appointment friday morning and I really needed to get out. Where to go? Not enough time to do Great Basin and if its a only a weekend might as well stay close and save my funds for bigger trip later. Noticed the byway and thought maybe I'd do that. Headed out and headed up the Mormon Emigrant trail. I knew it wasn't open to 88 (and glad now, would have been much harder to find the route going the other way) but I thought I could make it to the Silver Fork road and then over to 50. Found a nice spot to camp near the top of the Strawberry Creek Road (all paved roads, dirt roads still aren't open). Some snow for the dog to play in. Why the Silver Fork is gated at Kyburz but the Strawberry road isn't kind of boggles me but I'm glad. Enough snow on the road to keep out most people.
Next day I decided to head to Genoa since I've never been there (my dad says I have but I must have been pretty young. Had a beer at the oldest bar in Nevada.
Then it was over to the BLM office and decide whether to river portion or the Pine Nut Mountains portion. The BLM office isn't open on Saturdays Hmmm, do the river part and I won't get lost or go have an adventure. All I have for maps is my Benchmark Nevada Road and Recreation Atlas. I need to send a nasty gram to the Carson BLM. It seems they don't believe in signage. Nowhere is a sign saying its a byway and very little signage at all. Only three signs on the whole trip denoting destination and mileage and a few 009 carsonite signs. Weather is looking threatening but I head off anyway.