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| Valley of Fire State Park | ||||
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| Near entrance to Valley of Fire State Park | Petroglyphs on desert varnish | Fins on rock near Mouse Tank | Arch near Mouse Tank | |
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| Elephant Arch, near visitor center | ||||
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| Sandstone Formations | Squirrel near Visitor Center | |||
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| Red and white sandstone in Fire Canyon | Desert Flora | Horned Lizard | ||
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Atlotl Rock with stairs and viewing platform |
Petroglyphs next to Atlotl Rock | Natural Arch | A forbidding canyon | |
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| Pancake rocks |
Strange ridges in rock on floor of the desert |
Death in the desert | Fascinating shapes | |
| Red Rock Canyon | ||||
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Red Rock Canyon offers endless twisted layers of rock |
It's hard to believe this is less than 20 miles from the Las Vegas Strip |
Can you spot the climbers here? | Massive forces created the disconnected layers here | |
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| Fun to watch from a distance! | Teri on the trail | A dramatic cliff | A chunk with once horizontal layers has landed sideways | |
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Red spots indicate heavy iron concentration |
There's been enough moisture to get some green grass started | A nice view of stripes |
Cholla cactus, with yucca as a backdrop |
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| Great Basin National Park | ||||
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| Wheeler Peak in Great Basin National Park | The right way to get high | Inside Lehman Cave | Another scene in the cave | |
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| Lots of information about bristlecone pines | Base of an ancient bristlecone | A close look at those bristly cones | An especially fine example of nature's sculpture work | |
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| Along the Bristlecone Trail | Twisted log by the trail | Dead pines reach to the sky | This dead bristlecone stands like a sentinel at the edge of the grove | |
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| Limber pine cones at back, and Engleman spruce in front | Looking east into Utah from the upper part of the park | Summer snow streaks | Meadow below Mather Overlook | |
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| A bit of whimsy along the road into the park | Downtown Baker NV, adjacent to the national park | Looking east from Baker, NV | Corral and ranch buildings at the edge of Baker | |
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| 13,000 foot Wheeler Peak area of Great Basin National Park | ||||
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| Snake Range from the west | And from the east | |||
| Urban Nevada | ||||
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| The strip from Plaza Hotel | A closer look |
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Land of too many signs, with scenic view in the background | |
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| Not much worry about speed limits Thanksgiving weekend |
Savage Mansion and Mining Office in Virginia City |
C Street in Virginia City in 2015 |
Snow on the hills above Virginia City, April 1, 2015 |
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| Panoramic view of Virginia City from the cemetery | ||||
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| Mountains west of Las Vegas | Downtown Las Vegas | A rare and strangely smoggy morning in Las Vegas |
View from the Plaza Hotel looking south |
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| Elsewhere in Nevada | ||||
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| Southwest of Wells | Basin in central Nevada | Single needle pinyon pine | Toyabe National Forest | |
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| Rain and clouds along US Highway 6, October 2015 |
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