ATVOBSESSION

Just got back from 3 days of riding in the Yerington area. Stayed at the Casino west. Day 1 we launched at pine grove flat road and nf road 59. It's less than 10 miles from the hotel and is really a great place to start. Went west up through the canyon past just tons of history. Went down Nye canyon, Sand canyon, Dead ox canyon, up trail 371 to the top. A neat little trail, circled around and back to the truck. 45 miles there about. We spent alot of time checking things out, so it took us most of the day.
Day 2 we drove down 338 to trail 28 towards the elbow. Launched at nf 128, this is a awesome trail, took in masonic and tried to make it to Bodie. Too much snow we got within a couple of miles though. Back to Masonic, which is too cool. Went back on trail 46, got a mile or so past the 128 intersection. Pulled over to take a break, noticed obsidian chips shining in the sun. Poked around for a few minutes, found the smallest arrowhead i've ever seen, 1 and 1 eight inches. For and area of about 50 yards around there were chips every where.
Day 3 back to 59 and pine flat road. Went straight down pine flat road, thought it might be faster thant driving all the way to the elbow. Wrong, 40 miles later we get to 28, worth the ride though went by flying m ranch beautiful scenery. Got to the intersection, talked to some guys taking ore samples on the lava flow, decided to go back to a big valley past flying m. There was tons of wild horse sign, so we decided to see what we could find. Theres a high voltage line that runs across the valley we went up that. Went up a canyon cat creek, ran into the monarch mine. A beautiful canyon, cat creek still had water running. Kicked up 1 antelope, circled back down and came down a wash back to the main road. No horses, sign everywhere, kicked up about 8 mule deer. Got back to the truck with 75 miles on for the day. A fantastic 3 days of riding, right around 180 miles total. The Toiyabe national forest map covers all these areas well. The best nf map i have ever used.

Nice Ride.

regor wrote:Wrong, 40 miles later we get to 28, worth the ride though went by flying m ranch beautiful scenery. Got to the intersection, talked to some guys taking ore samples on the lava flow, decided to go back to a big valley past flying m.

Sounds like an awesome ride! Did you happen to see Paris Hilton suntanning at the Flying M? Her grampa owns it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying-M_Ranch

I've heard he is a real nice guy and was OK with sailplanes making emergency landings there. Had I ever known Paris was around when flying down that way, I'd have created an emergency, believe me.

P.S. - Prediction: Someone on an ATV doing a ride like regor's is going to be the one that finally finds Steve Fossett's wreckage. He was too good of a pilot to crash anywhere obvious and he took off from Flying M.

Didn't see Paris, there was a fancy black helicopter parked at the airport on the way back out. Yeah i agree about some guy on a atv finding steves wreckage.

i shot my deer in that area last year. rode threw the pass to bodie , went to aurora cemetary and that is a great ride. we camped by the rafter 7 ranch and the santa margarita.

and your right someone like us will end up finding him if he is in fact dead, and not in europe or something, hiding from the IRS.

dirtbikejohn wrote: and your right someone like us will end up finding him if he is in fact dead, and not in europe or something, hiding from the IRS.

LOL! I didn't think of that, you're probably right! He's sitting on the beach somewhere in the south of France, sipping beers with DB Cooper. DB was probably buying since he has all the cash.

Besides, Regor did see a black helicopter parked outside the ranch. Those are supposed to stay way south by Area 51, so there must be some kind of conspiracy going on...

I told my wife the same thing. Fosset did not crash. He is hiding somewhere. To good a pilot to just screw up and crash.