Sunday and Monday March 27, 28, 2022 Yerington Nevada
Travel day
This was last night’s camp spot up near some old mining stuff.
Belt tightening
The first thing on the agenda was to tighten up the van’s fan belts as I’m tired of hearing them squeak every time when I start the engine.
Little walk
Then I went for a little walk around to see what I could see around my camp area.
I spotted this old cabin by an old mine.
Can dump
And it looks like they ate a lot out of cans as there were a lot of them around here. Actually cans seem appropriate out here a long way away from a store in the old days and not much in the refrigeration department in the in those days.
Breaking camp
It’s been real windy so there was a lot of dust in the air as I started up the van and headed down to the highway, I think I was on 160 north and sorta heading up highway 95 north.
It’s a big area I’m traveling through with big valleys and mountain ranges.
The highways are mostly nice and straight and mostly 70 miles an hour.
Need a camp spot
I travelled all day and pulled through Yerington around five and needed a spot to camp for the night.
I’ve noticed there are more open roads around the populated areas, just outside of the towns so I was watching when I left Yerington as I needed a camp before I got too close to highway 80 and civilization and it would soon be dark.
I found one
Not far out of Yerington, I saw a big dirt road to the left that looked promising, so I took it and it opened up onto an old abandoned mining area. Good enough for me.
I pulled up among the mining ruins and parked here for the night overlooking the valley below where Yerington is located.
Walk around
After getting settled in I went out for a walk around the mining area. This was looking back at camp as I went for a walk around.
Old copper mine
The mine appeared to be an old copper mine and it had lots of cement things around to look at. By the amount of the cement stuff it must have been a rather big and successful mine at one time.
Rattle snake
I spotted this guy trying to get some sleep by a cement slab as I walked by about six feet from it. It didn’t move and likely just wanted to be left alone…………., But.
I tossed some tiny pebbles at it and didn’t hit it but it finally turned and crawled under the cement shaking it’s rattle a bit.
What were things used for
I always like to look around at the old stuff and see if I can figure out what they were doing to the ore in olden days.
However I’ve seen more gold mines in our areas as there’s lots of gold country in California so a lot of what I saw here I couldn’t figure out as this is copper country and they mill it different than gold.
Somehow they seemed to bring the ore down from up there where the mine is down to here to start the milling process.
Camp spot
While exploring around the mining area I ran into this, someone’s little paradise camp. Nice and neat and clean, although it didn’t appear to being used much lately.
This old mining area seems like a good spot to spent the night, it should be nice and peaceful.
Tomorrow
I’m almost to highway 80 west which leads over the mountains towards home which I should be able to make by tomorrow driving most of the day.
Welcome home! Yerington is where bloggers Ken and Shirley live. It’s too bad the connection couldn’t have been made to camp at their lovely spot. They would have welcomed you with open arms, I’m sure!
However, your spot is pretty cool. That snake?? yikes! Still hoping that I don’t see one. :) Interesting pictures of the camp spot and cabin around the mines.
Glad you are home safe after a great trip! Bonus that we got to meet you finally!
Glad you made it home safe. Thanks for taking us along.
Did you have a reason for waking up a sleeping rattlesnake?
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A Sony AX33 4K, a video camera that takes stills too. What am I doing with that? I take pictures from my Kayak a lot. I found I was missing interesting shots, because my pic was being processed in my camera, before it would let me take another pic. Since I like to take what I call action stills, I bought this camera to take videos, that I could make stills out of, but, as a bonus, this camera also came with buttons to just take stills and that's what I mostly do, unless something is real interesting or too far away for my still zooms. My digilat zoom setting for video goes to two hundred x, and sometimes I need that, but usually, I only use the 10x lens zoom. Because this camera is HD and 4K, the quality has to be real good and it has a lot of stabilizers on it which really helps out a lot for taking pics on the water.
The other thing it has that is a must is a view finder and I had to buy Sony's top of the line cam to get it. This is a must for taking pics on the water, as you must hold the camera as still as posible and putting that eye piece to the eye forms a tripod with your arms that helps a lot. The eye piece is also a must as it works way better than a LED screen to see what you are taking a picture of in the daylight as the LED screens wash out easily in sunlight.
I also have another video camera, a Canon VIXIA G30. I use them both to mostly take stills. The Sony takes higher resolution stills than the G30. That was a bit of a disappointment as I bought the G30 to replace an older camera I dunked in the river, but then had to buy the Sony to get higher still picture resolution that the G30 was lacking.
Welcome home! Yerington is where bloggers Ken and Shirley live. It’s too bad the connection couldn’t have been made to camp at their lovely spot. They would have welcomed you with open arms, I’m sure!
However, your spot is pretty cool. That snake?? yikes! Still hoping that I don’t see one. :) Interesting pictures of the camp spot and cabin around the mines.
Glad you are home safe after a great trip! Bonus that we got to meet you finally!
That little camp site? How cool is that???? I’d stay there if I was sure I could get my rig OUT!! Thanks for sharing the great trip!!
Glad you made it home safe. Thanks for taking us along.
Did you have a reason for waking up a sleeping rattlesnake?