Nevada Ghost Towns & Beyond

What fun things did you do this weekend? Saturday, my 13 year old and I worked on haunted Carson Valley. Most tales of haunting at the Genoa cemetery involve children so we explored the grounds looking at headstones. My daughters summary of the day was "We went looking for old dead kids". She always loves a hunt and has a unique sense of humor, but she refused to go into the haunted jail ... VIEW POST

A deer visiting the ranch this morning thought he was hiding from me. Everytime he looked up and saw I was still there, he went back to his “hiding” place. ... VIEW POST

My weekend ghost town plans didn't work out so I found other activities. Friday was a bear hunt and fall color photo shoot with good friend and photographer Dwayne Hicks. Sunday was wheeling in the Sierras with friends Stephen and Dave. I don't have photos of the bad section of the road because we were too busy hanging onto the Jeep It was the most challenging road Rubi and I have driven, ... VIEW POST

A few feet inside of the Nevada border, on Bodie Road, sits the ruins of a stone building. Bodie Creek runs nearby, leaving the lower elevations marshy. The walls are overgrown with wild pink roses, leaving only the four corners of the rock structure exposed.    Why are the ruins in a canyon notorious for flash floods and washouts and so far from Bodie and Aurora?  Bodie ... VIEW POST

Lucky Boys The road joining Hawthorne to Bodie washed out due to heavy rainfall in 1906. The Bodie-Hawthorne road was crucial to transporting items over the Wassuk Range between booming Bodie and the Carson & Colorado Railroad station in Hawthorne. Two workmen repairing road washouts discovered a ledge of promising ore containing silver and lead. Despite primitive conditions, these ... VIEW POST