2003 07 27 Pyramid Lake, Smoke Creek, Black Rock
2003 07 28 Truckee to Elko NV, Tuscarora
2003 07 29 Elko NV to Mountain Home ID, Bruneau Dunes
2003 07 31 Bruneau Dunes, ID, Sun Valley, ID
2003 08 01 Mountain Home ID to Ely NV
2003 08 04 Ely to Fallon NV, Eberhart, Dixie Valley
2003 08 04 Ely to Fallon NV, Eberhart, Dixie Valley
Today was sort of a driving day and sort of a photo day.
I had read about another ghost town further into the same mountain range as Hamilton. I thought it would be worth checking out, and it was, sort of.
The place is called Eberhart, and it apparently was a town built around milling and not so much mining itself. There were two mills, both apparently quite large, and a lot of living places. All that is left of one mill is the foundation, although more remains of another. Here are a couple of shots of the more substantial remains.
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The vertical structure in the third frame is (I think) the end of a tramway that went up the mountain behind this mill. Maybe this was the way ore came into the mill. I read that some of the tramway can still be seen but I could not see it from the mill and I didn't feel like climbing the mountain in the heat. The mill itself is very large, and must have been quite an undertaking to build and operate. The vertical beams in the second and third photos are solid and are about 24 inches square. The whole structure looks like it was about 80 feet by 60 feet, or maybe more. It was big.
Eberhart is about 5 miles further along the road from US50 that goes into Hamilton. However, it is not nearly as good once past Hamilton:
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Here is the Nevada marker that is out on US50:
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After this I got going .. driving .. I knew I was going to be in Fallon by night, but not sure where I was going to go in between. I wound up just driving 50, which is a great drive and I know I have talked about it in the writeups of previous photo trips. I would up going back to my favorite Nevada dump, in the Dixie Valley. Weird to be photographing a dump, perhaps, but the sun and heat do interesting things to the paint on the old cars and other trash just lying in the desert. (I had a few of these images in the Artspace show.) Anyway, I could not resist, and shot some more. The snaps here are not really like what I shot on film. These are mostly snapshots to show what the place looked like.
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That was about it for the day. The sun went down as I was doing this and, being back at lower elevation, it was hot. I'd say about 100.
From here it is about 90 miles to Fallon, past Sand Mountain, which I would like to photograph again, and a few places in the Carson Sink that I would like to get to. I did none of that and just went on in to Fallon. Fallon feels like a return to "civilization" after being away. It's fairly large, full of neon, and is only about 50 miles from Reno.