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A few pictures from the camping trip...
Just figured I'd post up.
Regardless of the jeep issues I had a pretty good time, I love going out to northern nevada, it's an area alot of people dont see. It honestly made me sick when i came around the turn on the I-15 and could see Las Vegas. I wanted to turn my broken-arsed jeep around and head back to the mtns.
I cant wait to get out of this city...but I digress. Enjoy.
There was alot of this....just miles and miles of nothing, but it's so beautiful at the same time.
View from Ward Charcoal Ovens State Park
The ovens:
Again, alot of this:
Old mining outfit just outside of the city, kinda deep into the hills but a well known location. This is where I broke down the first time due to the carb running dry somehow.
Officially have taken it camping now. Crazy that it took a year of ownership to use it for the purpose I purchased it.
Anyway, all trouble aside, it was a good trip. I was an 'experience' thats for sure. I've never actually broken down anywhere before, so it was a first for me...and then a second...and then a third, and then a fourth, haha.
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09-06-2011, 11:58 AM
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Stark but beautiful. Basins and ranges and basins and ranges and ...
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09-06-2011, 12:00 PM
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Anyway, all trouble aside, it was a good trip. I was an 'experience' thats for sure. I've never actually broken down anywhere before, so it was a first for me...and then a second...and then a third, and then a fourth, haha.
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Great pictures. I can see people thinking you're one of the local's with your Wag.
If you've never broken down, you must never owned a Jeep before. 
JR
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09-06-2011, 12:47 PM
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Stark but beautiful. Basins and ranges and basins and ranges and ...
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They don't call it the Basin and Range Province for the fun of it!
Crazy though, thats a lot of tectonic uplift.
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09-06-2011, 01:08 PM
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They don't call it the Basin and Range Province for the fun of it!
Crazy though, thats a lot of tectonic uplift.
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Yup.  Aka "horst and graben" topology.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basin_and_Range_Province
Wikipedia says "extensions" - I don't think that "extension" means "uplift" - but I'm not a geologist!
Here's more - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extension_%28geology%29
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09-06-2011, 01:13 PM
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Me neither, just taken a few classes in pursuit of my Landscape Architecture degree. Ask me about design, construction, and plant materials, not about how our beautiful planet was formed. 
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09-06-2011, 01:33 PM
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Call me shallow
but pictures beat the hell out of a bunch of blah blah blah. Glad you used the jeep, seems like the typical comments are: wish i could have but this or that is broken.
envious
me and my buddies are planning a weekend of wheeling in the N ga mountains this fall. Forest service roads will be fun
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09-06-2011, 07:00 PM
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Ever driven I-80 across northern Nevada? It looks the same...only with less green stuff.
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09-06-2011, 07:04 PM
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Thanks for sharing the pics.
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I agree doc
Well worth the trouble.
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09-06-2011, 08:03 PM
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Beautiful! Thanks for letting us seewhat we missed.
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09-07-2011, 05:39 AM
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I hate you.....
i would kill to have a place like that around here!
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09-07-2011, 07:17 AM
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[quote=Dr. Marneaus]
These are my 2 favorite pictures
I know people love to see the ocean, dont get me wrong, I practically live in the Atlantic and Chesapeake Bay right on thru Christmas.....but I would love some vistas like you have, the desolation is WAAAAYY cool!
Sounds like some minor tuning issues but a great trip- NICE!!
Thanks for the pics!!
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09-07-2011, 07:31 AM
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Thanks for posting the pictures. I'm from southern Idaho and went to school in Elko, NV. I love high desert. It really is beautiful once you get past the barrenness.
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09-07-2011, 08:33 AM
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09-07-2011, 10:43 AM
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That is very similar to parts of Arizona. I could never move, I would miss the country too much. I feel the same way you do heading back into Phoenix. But the work is in the city and so we adjust.
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09-07-2011, 07:16 PM
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thanks for the compliments guys, it really was a fun trip. As i said, it was definitely an 'experience' with the jeep issues, but hey, it got me home in the end, right? Not really any worse for the wear, either.
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09-07-2011, 08:56 PM
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Those are some nice pictures. that trip looked like fun. i went camping out around that area a couple years back and it was a cool trip and even cooler area. i'm more of a mountains and trees guy myself, but the desert is also cool. much more open areas to wheel
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Thanks for the pic's, now that really makes me miss mine.
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