Part Deux Postponed

With 5-6 inches of snow and freezing rain being forecast for all this week in the McDermitt area we took the easy way out and are postponing our next hike. Found out we'll likely have to skip one segment between McDermitt and Denio because the snow is over a foot deep on a ridge we'll have to cross. We may have to continue doing non-contiguous segments until the snow melts up high if we want to get some more miles knocked out before summer. Stay tuned.

Part Deux

Well, we'er headed back to pickup what we skipped and get back on the straight and narrow path along the border. Dwane and I are planning ot hit it next Thu through Sun and see if we can fill in the segment from McDermitt to Denio. First segement is to catch the first 25 miles we skipped our first time out. We'll head down on Wed the 24 or possibly drive down late Tue night so we can get a full day in on Wed. Probably stay at the same motel next to the casino in McDermitt the first two nights. I picked up a couple of minibikes that we are going to use for the shuttle back to the starting point. We'll see if this works. They are about 200cc and seem to move pretty good, so we're hoping at the end of the day's hike we'll be able to ride them back to where we started from each evening.

Mapquest link for McDermitt NV

http://www.mapquest.com/maps?city=Mcdermitt&state=NV&country=US&latitude=41.997501&longitude=-117.717201&geocode=CITY

McDermitt - 2d leg

Looks like with the amount of time it takes to get down there we may just take a week off and see if we can cover the eastern third of the state. Really enjoyed the folks in McDermitt, about 300 people, mostly from the tribe, live in the area. Everyone was very friendly, we felt comfortable, and the food at the casino was great. Here's a link to interesting information on the indian reservation:

http://www.sierraserviceproject.org/SiteInformation_files/fortmcdermitt.history.pdf


Posted the snowy picture looking west along the route we followed the first day from near our stat point. The other two pics are from the end point of the second day; one looking at the rock wall we stopped at and the other looking back across the valley east towards McDermitt. Still looking for a driver from the area to drop us off and pick us up in order to get that first segment from 35 to 20 miles east of town next time down.