I stayed up past my bedtime on Friday the 13th to ride my bike for the first time since it arrived. It was wonderfully therapeutic.
Tonight I have a few minutes to give brief descriptions of the pics but I am in no mood to fight blogger's crappy software to make it work right.
This is Lamoille Presbyterian Church. it is very beautiful. There was a car in the lot and I was tempted to go in and take a look around, but it was raining on me a little and I was coughing so hard (two weeks now) that I just wanted to go home. This was my last picture of the day.
Then two pictures of the "front range" of the Ruby Mountains with thunderstorms forming over them.
There is a peak in the Rubies which looks like a finger pointing to heaven. I'm not sure what it's called, but it's very distinctive.
When you drive from Elko to Spring Creek, you top Lamoille Summite or "The Summit", and this is the view you get when you hit the top. It's breathtaking in reality, because you can from end of the range to the other. This picture does it no justice whatever.
A rock slide. One rock slid. It probably weighed as much as a house. You cannot appreciate how massive it is, given it's depth. Next time, i'm taking a tape measure and weighing a smaller version to estimate the weight of the big one. Hey. I'm a science nerd.
The snow is melting pretty fast and there were cool waterfalls coming off the cliffs. It was awesome.
Tonight I have a few minutes to give brief descriptions of the pics but I am in no mood to fight blogger's crappy software to make it work right.
This is Lamoille Presbyterian Church. it is very beautiful. There was a car in the lot and I was tempted to go in and take a look around, but it was raining on me a little and I was coughing so hard (two weeks now) that I just wanted to go home. This was my last picture of the day.
Then two pictures of the "front range" of the Ruby Mountains with thunderstorms forming over them.
There is a peak in the Rubies which looks like a finger pointing to heaven. I'm not sure what it's called, but it's very distinctive.
When you drive from Elko to Spring Creek, you top Lamoille Summite or "The Summit", and this is the view you get when you hit the top. It's breathtaking in reality, because you can from end of the range to the other. This picture does it no justice whatever.
A rock slide. One rock slid. It probably weighed as much as a house. You cannot appreciate how massive it is, given it's depth. Next time, i'm taking a tape measure and weighing a smaller version to estimate the weight of the big one. Hey. I'm a science nerd.
The snow is melting pretty fast and there were cool waterfalls coming off the cliffs. It was awesome.
If you look closely at my bike, you will see it is wet from the cold rain. My but got soaked as I sat back down on it to ride home. But this is Nevada. In ten minutes, I was dry.
Then a few shots of the mountains, snow, road, etc. The next one of the waterfall is on one of the cliff's they call Nevada's Yosemite. It is gorgeous in real life.
An avalanche destroyed two large concrete buildings ahead, but the road is closed, anyway, from snow. So I couldn't go see it.
There were lots of small aspens as you go up higher, none of them budding, yet. And I just learned that there is a Boy Scout camp down on the creek in the bottom of the glacial valley.
I can't wait for the road to open, and then the trails to open for hiking.
I love living here.
1 comment:
These are awesome pictures! Makes me want to see that canyon again. I may have need to be in your area in late summer/early fall, so perhaps I will get that opportunity. Keep riding and keep posting.
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