What beautiful Sunday to explore Nevada. Clear skies, warm day and a light breeze. I went out with friend Shonna and Austin of Nevada Expeditions who is a walking encyclopedia of all things Churchill County.
We started the morning at Green and Wonderstone mountains for rock hounding. Green mountain is amazing. The peak is naturally green, like someone covered it my favorite Baskin Robbins ice cream, Mint Chocolate Chip. Wonderstone is bright orange and has amazing striated rocks.
We then drove up the length of Lahontan Valley from Highway 50 and back down the other side. We stopped at Cox Canyon, Rockwell Station and one of my new favorite ghost towns, Coppereid.
Thank you Shonna for bringing the strangest lunch I have had on the trail, shrimp cocktail and a huge fruit bowl. Who knew, it totally worked and was much better than jerky, canned soup or MRE’s
I’m pretty sure we all took showers as soon as we got home. We looked like we had been rolling in chalk after the drive around the playa. Everything in Honey Badger is covered with white dust.
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