Southern Nevada and Tonopah Basin

Well named Picture Canyon floated to the top of my list of places to go recently. Hikers have rediscovered this canyon at the southern end of the Sheep Range (and inside of the Desert Wildlife Refuge) in recent years in their search for missing long distance hiker Kenny Veach. He

Dan and I came across this active claim in the remote reaches of Nevada back in 2008. It is an interesting place in some lonely country. We didn’t know it was active until we came across the camp. Of course, we left everything alone. I’m only posting a

This is a sandstone rock shelter in southern Nevada with an interesting assortment of pictographs. Native American Southern Paiute and Mohave made their homes here and either could have made these markings. The site itself looks like it could have been a small encampment above a wash. I explored a