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Looking For Detachment: Dust Storm at The Needle Rocks, Pyramid Lake
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Reality can be attained only by someone who is detached." - Simone Weil. Thursday, April 9, 2015. Dust Storm at The Needle Rocks, Pyramid Lake. It was a very windy day as I drove south along what's variably called the Surprise Valley Road or the Sand Pass Road (and to the north, is often called the Smoke Creek Road) into the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe's Reservation. Various signs at the north entrance to the reservation. I could see the dust - and the faded outline of the Lake Range. I had a pretty good v...
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Looking For Detachment: January 2015
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Reality can be attained only by someone who is detached." - Simone Weil. Thursday, January 15, 2015. Cliffs of the Ruby Mountains: Some Pretty Pictures. And while we're waiting an even longer time for me to get around to posting about the nappe in Lamoille Canyon. Here are a few of my favorite pretty pics taken from our campsite at Camp Lamoille in late September. I can say that a bit of the nappe can be seen in a few of these photos, if you know where to look! Sunset colors and burning orange aspens.
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Looking For Detachment: Early Morning Smoke
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Reality can be attained only by someone who is detached." - Simone Weil. Monday, September 1, 2014. The sun is about to rise through thick smoke blanketing the. Here, the sun is up, and the smoke is so thick that the high part of the Humboldt Range, which would normally be visible in the distance on the left part of the photo, is completed covered by the smoke layer. Looking off to the southwest, layers of smoke over a green field. A screeching hawk on a phone pole. Posted by Silver Fox. In northwestern ...
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Looking For Detachment: A Watering Hole Bites the Dust: Water Hole #1
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Reality can be attained only by someone who is detached." - Simone Weil. Thursday, June 25, 2015. A Watering Hole Bites the Dust: Water Hole #1. Water Hole #1 in Golconda, Nevada — a bar made famous in the late 1970s by an industrious pig, Waterhole Ike. 8212; closed sometime within the last two to three years, before I had a chance to stop by and check out their beer collection. Water Hole #1 and attached grocery store in March, 2015. The bar and store during better times: June, 2012. Sunday, July 19, 2...
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Looking For Detachment: Road Songs
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Reality can be attained only by someone who is detached." - Simone Weil. These are a few posts containing or linking to road songs. I'll add more as time goes on. What Is a Road Song? All posts tagged road songs. Highway 8A Theme Song: lyrics. Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys. What am I Living For. May the Road Rise. Child of the Wind. Stories We Could Tell. On the Road Again. Two embedded videos (one keeps getting taken down). I Can't Drive 55. Wanted Dead or Alive. Subscribe in a reader.
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Looking For Detachment: Siberian Haze in North-Central Nevada
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Reality can be attained only by someone who is detached." - Simone Weil. Monday, May 11, 2015. Siberian Haze in North-Central Nevada. In this view of the Owyhee Bluffs and Jake Creek Mountain, the reddish sunrise looks a little smokey to me. Photo taken 18Apr15 from Location 1. For all photo and a few geographic locations, see the map embedded below. Mostly gratuitous sunrise photo, taken 18Apr15 photo from Location 2. Photo taken 19Apr15 from Location 3. At 9396 ft (2864 m) in the center. I'm not sure w...
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Looking For Detachment: The Beginning of an El Niño Trip: North-Central and Western Nevada
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Reality can be attained only by someone who is detached." - Simone Weil. Monday, June 1, 2015. The Beginning of an El Niño Trip: North-Central and Western Nevada. Has supposedly set in (starting when, exactly, I'm not sure). And if precipitation continues to be anything like it has been during the last several weeks, I hope it's here for the the long haul, that is, into the winter. Rain shower in the northern part of the East Range. Rain showers in the Eugene Mountains. As seen from the JA Nugget. And Hi...
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Looking For Detachment: February 2015
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Reality can be attained only by someone who is detached." - Simone Weil. Monday, February 16, 2015. Things You Find in the Field: Old Sedan. I found this old sedan a few years back while out doing a tiny bit of off-roading south of Railroad Pass ( one. Railroad Passes in Nevada) along S.R. 722. Formerly known as S.R. 2, formerly commissioned as U.S. Highway 50 from about 1926 through 1966. Railroad Pass, Lander County ( USGS TNM 2.0 link. Railroad Pass, Esmeralda County ( USGS TNM 2.0 link. Concentrated ...
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Looking For Detachment: June 2015
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Reality can be attained only by someone who is detached." - Simone Weil. Tuesday, June 30, 2015. El Niño Near Long Valley Creek, Lassen County, CA. I've got a few more pictures from that rainy May day, the 21st, when MOH and I were on what was really the first leg of a trip to Colorado and back. A downpour over unnamed hills just off the north end of the Bald Mountain Range and just south of Beckwourth Pass. Photo taken May 21st, 12:44 pm. Looking up Dinwiddie Arm (of Long Valley Creek? Links to this post.
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Looking For Detachment: Road Song: Wanted Dead or Alive
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Reality can be attained only by someone who is detached." - Simone Weil. Friday, April 24, 2015. Road Song: Wanted Dead or Alive. I: Wanted Dead or Alive ( lyrics. Album: Slippery When Wet. Just another song about life on the road: one I heard the other day while traveling between here and there. Posted by Silver Fox. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Sign for Nevada S.R. 8A. In northwestern Nevada, as seen in August, 2015. Sign near the junction of old Highway 8A. Looking for Detachment is on Google.
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