Category Nevada

White Domes Trail

Man wandering through a red sandstone wash in White Domes Trail in Nevada's Valley of Fire State Park.

It’s hard to pick a trail to hike in Valley of Fire State Park. There are so many of them, and they all have something amazing to view. But possibly one of the densest collections of colorful crags can be…

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Devils Hole

Devils Hole is one of the most fascinating but commonly overlooked natural features in the world for so many reasons. But it seems like only scientists and drunks pay it much head.

Finally, my new lens has come in handy to photograph the rarest fish found in the wild. The Devils Hole Pupfish only lives in a subterranean cave isolated in the Nevada desert. Technically, this site is an annex of Death Valley National Park but it is quite a distance from the main National Park. Think of it like Hawaii, relatively small and distant from the main 48, but a treasure unto itself.

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Lake Tahoe

After days of camping and a pungent reminder of the warm showers we had been missing, we decided to wrap up this leg of the journey with a night's stay in a hotel. Given our trajectory, we figured Lake Tahoe was the logical stop. I was determined to not step outside of the hotel from check in to check out. It would be a lazy evening of food, wine, and meditating on our adventures thus far. Happily, we were upgraded to a room on the 12th floor. From it, we could see the lake and the mountains on the California side.

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Camping In Elko

Elko is the center of a current gold rush. Billboards specifically target miners, wether they promote shops, hotels, or casinos. Most any establishment has "gold," "bonanza," "mine," or some other term associated with gold wealth. We had hoped to get a tour of one of the active mines, but, alas, we were there on a day where there were no tours.

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