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Posted: 03 Jan 2019

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A Storm in the Desert

A Storm in the Desert
Looking southwesterly over Duck Creek Valley from the improbably named Kalamazoo Summit Road over the Schell Creek Range, in far eastern Nevada. Every so often the monsoon reaches this far northwest! I'm just below Kalamazoo Summit (8953 ft/2729 m) here. The prominent water gap in the center is Gallagher Gap, where Duck Creek crosses the range of the same name into Steptoe Valley. The small town of Ely (EE-lee, just like the original in England), Nevada is 15-20 miles off in the distance, at the base of the mountains on the far side. It's an old mining town that has a new lease on life from tourism, plus some modest ranching.

Doug Shepherd, rod bally, Smiley Derleth, tiabunna and 6 other people have particularly liked this photo

11 comments - The latest ones
 Pam J
Pam J club
I LOVE THE WAY YOU READ THE LAND . I KNOW IT IS YOUR GEOLOGIST GENE !I WISH I COULD BORROW THAT KNOWLEDGE TO READ THE LAND.
5 years ago.
 William Sutherland
William Sutherland club
Superb capture!

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5 years ago.
 Gudrun
Gudrun club
Dramatic sky! The light helps to bring out the landscape features.
I can understand that people liked to name places in the U.S,.after their hometowns but I'm always flabbergasted when a search on Google Maps throws out some smalll place in the States instead of the much larger European original;-)
5 years ago.
slgwv club has replied to Gudrun club
There's even a Berlin, Nevada! It's an old mining town that's now the centerpiece of a state park. I've even got an album on it:
www.ipernity.com/doc/289859/album/671339
5 years ago.
Gudrun club has replied to slgwv club
:-)) It looks more picturesque than the German Berlin:-)
There are also at least two other places called Stuttgart apart from the one where I live;-)
5 years ago.
slgwv club has replied to Gudrun club
And it occurs to me, on looking at the name of the pass I'm about to summit, that nostalgic emigrants didn't just name things after places in the Old Country. They also named them for places in the eastern US! The original Kalamazoo is in Michigan.
5 years ago.
 Jaap van 't Veen
Jaap van 't Veen club
Wonderful vista.
5 years ago.
 Herb Riddle
Herb Riddle club
Great lighting to this mighty landscape. Well done.

Cheers, Herb
5 years ago.
 slgwv
slgwv club
Thanks, everyone! As I like to repeat, Nevada's not all just flat desert! ;)
5 years ago.
 tiabunna
tiabunna club
That's a great weather image, apart from the landscape. On the landscape, at this point you were roughly 2000 ft higher than the highest mountain in Australia!
5 years ago.
slgwv club has replied to tiabunna club
Thanks, George! Yeah, there's more relief in Nevada than is popularly realized-- ;)

The contrast with the weather when I took this pic with that when we returned a couple weeks later was also striking. The southeasterly monsoonal flow had weakened to the point that the wind was coming from the west--bringing smoke from the California wildfires! All you could have seen from here then was murk.
5 years ago.

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