Nevada Ghost Towns & Beyond

Busy, busy weekend! Saturday was Eagles & Agriculture, I hosted 3 eagle tours and 2 groups at our ranch for the Owl Prowl. I talked about the emigrant trails, Pony Express and Comstock Lode. The morning was super cold and the roads were sheets of ice, but Jeep girls arrived on time! I spotted a bald eagle for the eagle tour, but my owls all took the day off. I suspect they were hungry after ... VIEW POST

Genoa, Nevada's oldest settlement in 1851, had the strangest rainbow today. It started in the field and arched over the Sierras. (Cell phone pic, it was gone too quickly to grab the camera from the Jeep) The eagle and owl tour was rescheduled for this weekend. I will be helping Senator Settelmeyer at his ranch in the morning for the eagle tour. I am hosting two groups for the owl prowl and ... VIEW POST

A safer route The Carson River Route traverses the Sierra Nevada Mountains connecting Carson Valley, Nevada, to goldfields in California. Pioneers searching for a safer route across the treacherous and snowy range developed the trail after the disaster of the Donner-Reed Party. Over one hundred seventy years later, you can follow much of the original Carson River Route. An astute explorer ... VIEW POST

Fairview is one of those forgotten places that has almost been erased from history. Very little evidence of the site can be located online or in books. I found only a few notations: A site in Stan Paher's Nevada Ghost Towns and Desert Atlas, a post on Forgotten Nevada, a GPS location on a few maps and a notation by the National Park Service. Even knowing the location, you have to search hard ... VIEW POST