Moments in Dirt and Ink

Tonopah Field Office BLM ( Click here for the locaiton .) On my way through, I stopped in Silver Peak. The cemetery is very cute with each site picked out in rocks. Someone seems to have added a huge number of wooden crosses to it recently, perhaps to distract from how many of the plots have been left without a name. The cemetery at Silver Peak. Although not marked with names, some are singled out by visitors. Some are given great detail of the outline of their living. The cemetery, Silver Peak, and the lithium mine from the top. Some details higher in the cemetery. *photo album* ©2023,2024 Valerie Norton Written 9 Feb 2024

Bristlecone Field Office BLM ( map link ) I was aiming at Sevier Lake in Utah for eclipse viewing, but checked the spot weather predictions for cloud cover (which is often already wrong at the time I download it) and found that Ely, where I was, would be clearer than the lake. Probably. I ultimately did get a ways toward the lake, but turned north at a sign for "Humboldt National Forest access". Actually getting there requires a tough vehicle and a good map because there's only one more sign to point the way and many more junctions. That doesn't matter because the rest of the land, if you don't go too far east, is all Bureau of Land Management. I found space to pull off the good county road as it turns east near the second forest access sign. A flat spot up the hill, well away from the road, was good for my tent. It was not flat in the way of once hosting a town on it, though. The map indicates that's where Black Horse, the place with buildings or at lea...