Miscellaneous
Ebbitts Pass south of Minden, NV. A narrow winding road and high mountain elevations make this a spectacular scene!
Another spectacular vista, looking down the canyon near Ebbitts Pass.
This is a windswept bush at the top of Peavine Peak, northwest of Reno, NV.
A view of the north valley area taken from Peavine.
This is a picture of the desert east of Fallon, NV.
This was taken from the top of Virginia Peak, located just south of Pyramid Lake. I don't remember which direction I was facing when I took it.
(12/2004)There were several days of morning fog in the valley and, since I was headed up to the top of Peavine, I was hoping to get a picture of the particularly heavy fog that blanketed the valley. However, I wasn't able to make it to the top until early afternoon after the majority of the fog had burnt off.
This picture and the next two are of our worst snowstorm in over 90 years. Some places in the lower elevations had up to seven feet of the white stuff! To put it in perspective, we usually get only six or eight inches of snow, which melts off by the following day. Our total snowfall ended up being about five feet and, as you can see, the dogs loved it. They thoughtfully kept the snow in the back yard packed down.
This is a picture of our vehicles. The snowstorm started New Year's eve, December 31, 2004, and finally stopped January 8th.
Although the snow stopped, we had another three weeks or so of freezing fog which was more miserable than the snow. It made driving hazardous with the black ice and low visibility. It wasn't until the middle of February before the snow finally melted from our yard. This picture shows the frozen fog (called Pogonip) on some bushes.