Again I was in and out of sleep during the long cold night. This would be a great spot to watch the stars!
Even though the sun had not hit my Secret Basin I got up around 0730, it was 21°F.
I fixed my breaky and coffee with the Kelly Kettle and no mis-adventures! Then the sun started to warm me up as I began to put things away and pack up.
By 0900 I began to leave this rocky beautiful place.
The road is what we call in mountain biking an out and back, I've heard it called a stem trail by hikers. I have to say that if I had a bucket list to tell peoples to drive on, this would make my top 5! This whole trip is doable by stock 4x4.
Gliding down the dirt through giant stands of Rabbit Brush and sage, all golden in the autumn light.
I was watching my old tire tracks and noticed a critter footprints going along and so I stopped to see what it was. It looks like coyote to me.
Then I was dumped out on a wide road I did not expect, but I turned left towards my target. I was tooling along around 40mph when I came to a road with a barber pole on one corner. I stopped and went down it about a mile to where I could clearly tell it was not the road I wanted to be on. I left.
Now I was confused and the big road should not have been there and further more on my gps it was calling it "Fremont Route" I wasn't supposed to be on that! It will be interesting to get home and the tracks on the gps tell me where I've been!
Anywho, I followed Mr Big Road and where it went right I veered left and came up Peavine Canyon. It was 1130
I just kept driving, by now I was under 1/2 tank from Hawthorne, and here I saw a road marker for 420 and all was good in my world!
I took it slow and at one point I wasn't sure if the road ended in this rocky area, so I got out for a look see leaving the Landy in the road.
I hadn't seen another car since Tuesday morning with the exception 1 on of my foray off "Mr Big".
They stopped back a space and I indicated I would move my 109 which I did. They pulled next to me and we chatted for a bit. They were Jen and Steve from Soulslicesv.blogspot.com or so they told me, I can't find it online, might be private. They were heading to the end of the trail to do a hike in the Arc Dome Wilderness.
The metal detector had given a tone just prior to them showing up so after they drove thru I went back for a look see but now the detector gave no tone. So I put everything away and crawled over the rocks down the trail.
There are several creek crossings and one still had ice on it broken by a previous rig.
We had lunch and talked then I left to find my camp for the night, on the way I talked with a couple of deerhunters. I drove to Peavine Campground and in # 7 I unloaded my 109.
A woman walked through the camp with what looked like an AK47 slung across her back. So I set my trail cam up early! I wandered around the campgrounds and met some of the fellow campers, 1 family was hunting deer.
That evening I burned the last of my firewood from home, it lasted until 2030ish. then to stay warm it was back into the cocoon! I didn't sleep right away but instead lay for a couple of hours planing my trip back home.
Here are the videos for the day!
To day 7; https://poppageno.blogspot.com/2019/10/roving-nevada-oct-2019-day-7.html
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