Nevada's Silver Peak Range

[ski3pin]

Beautiful weather (unfortunately ), a long weekend, good friends, wonderful new area to explore; our trip story is up on our blog

Nevada's Silver Peak Range - February 2015 - Part One

Nevada's Silver Peak Range - February 2015 - Part Two

We hope you enjoy tagging along.

 

[longhorn1]

Ski, Another great report. Below zero overnight and nasty cold in Central Indiana with no let up for the next 7-10 days. Another month and it will be time to load up. Spring can't come quick enough. jd

 

[Casa Escarlata Robles Too]

Thanks Ski.I bet camping with the "Teds" can be a trip. (they are great people)
Pliney the Elder was quite the interesting person,also.

Waiting for the rest of the story.
Frank

 

[Foy]

Another great report!

With all due respect to Mr. Pliney the Elder, perhaps he really didn't have it all figured out. After all, he chose to live at the foot of Mt Etna and he died in a predictable ashflow. Just sayiin'.

Looking forward to Part II.

Foy

 

[Smokecreek1]

Go Pliney, Go. Hey What's a lava flow or two when you have a beer named after you ! Me thinks the Teds must brew that beer on the side-it sort of keeps showing up in all the strangest places . Fish Lake Valley-another place to visit. Guys, this list of places to visit/revisit, keeps growing- nice report. Still can't believe you are out wandering that country and not getting stuck, well that's why you always go in pairs out there! Once I get out of this dang back rehab program it's out of here, "Bob" hasn't had a chance to drive for a while and is driving me crazy !

Smoke (the Elder) and "Bob (the lucky)"

 

[ski3pin]

With all due respect to Mr. Pliney the Elder, perhaps he really didn't have it all figured out. After all, he chose to live at the foot of Mt Etna and he died in a predictable ashflow. Just sayiin'.

maybe he was drinking a beer?

 

[Smokecreek1]

maybe he was drinking a beer?

At least some nice wine !

Smoke

 

[steelhead]

Ski - your trip reports continue to be an inspiration. Thanks for another great one from a rarely traveled area. Looking forward to Part 2.

steelhead

 

[takesiteasy]

The landscape is very cool. Looking forward to part 2.

 

[ski3pin]

Thanks Ski.I bet camping with the "Teds" can be a trip. (they are great people)
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The Teds sure are great people. They put up with the Lady and me!

 

[ski3pin]

The second and final part of the weekend adventure is now up on our blog -

Nevada's Silver Peak Range - February 2015 - Part Two

Please enjoy and thanks again for all the kind comments.

 

[Foy]

Part II: Very nice again!

Your vertical rock exposure looks to be many yards in length. It appears to be a thin layer of rock emplaced as molten material into a planar fracture in the host rock. Oftentimes the molten material is silica--quartz--which solidifies in place to form a hard, erosion-resistant tabular body which sticks out because the host rock erodes more easily. Especially in the West, we see "dike swarms" in radial patterns around volcanic plugs. Back here in the east, we have thousands of dikes of dark, dense rock called diabase. Our diabase dikes run between just a foot or two in width to hundreds of feet in width. They weather into distinctive spherical cobbles and boulders which litter the surface above the soil cover. These dikes can be traced for miles and miles by the cannonball-like cobbles and the deep red/orange soils they produce.

 

[Casa Escarlata Robles Too]

Yes you are fortunate,most of are to live in the areas we do.
Thanks for the great "colors"it's hard to believe some of the landscape we run into on our trips.

Looks like Ted has the "Plineys"reproducing right in the camper.
Or does he have a direct line to the brewery?

Sure enjoy the trips.
Frank

 

[takesiteasy]

Very cool colors. Nice to see just before I head north into the land of endless white (and below zero temps! ) for a few days of backwoods skiing. Thanks for the report!

 

[Lighthawk]

Good that the Ted's were able to explore the colorful geology of the Pliney Breeding grounds. The Benton pics were appreciated.
We visited nearby in 2010, coming from Fish Lake Valley.

 

[longhorn1]

Ski, Great pictures and another great report. Snowing like crazy in Indiana, maybe 7" when it ends. Come on Spring.

 

[billharr]

Another great trip. Are you sure you are not retired......

 

[highz]

Thanks for another very enjoyable read. Sure do wish the wild Plinys would expand their range out of the Great Basin into New Mexico. We have good Pliny habitat here.

 

[Basin Deranged]

Thanks for the great trip reports!
Another Nevada location to add to the to-do list.

 

[N'kwala]

Great reports. And so interesting to read of the Pliny proliferation...