NNev - Gt Basin Nat'l Park

At the Osceola Ditch, Great Basin National Park, Nevada. With its wooden walls helping define the channel, in places the "ditch" was as much as "flume." For further description of the project see the adjacent photos or the album.

Looking eastward from the flanks of the Snake Range, Nevada, in Great Basin National Park. The range on the skyline is the House Range; the prominent peak near the center is Notch Peak (where I did a lot of field work Back In the Day...) The lower mountains in the middle distance are the Confusion Range. The Nevada-Utah state line goes across the pic roughly horizontally in the flats in the foreground. The outlined buildings are a small motel-casino right at the state line on US 6-50. Most paved highways into Nevada have at least a little casino at the state line! US 6-50 can be vaguely seen trending at a shallow diagonal from lower left across the flat. US 6 and US 50 coincide here, between Ely, NV and Delta, UT, a distance of about 100 miles.