Images from the Silver State Part IV

Oh, what did I do before the digital age finally caught up with me?  I used an Argus C-4, that's what.

And that thing got around like a record, baby...ooey ooey.

It's nice to know that while most technology was going into staring down Nikolai Bulganin and providing the U.S. with the finest entertainment available enough was being directed into the commercial sector to eventually provide a young Renoite with one of his first serious cameras not involving bellows.

I have this camera!

And, surviving the Cold War and Y2K, this little camera would go on to produce the first picture of the post.  Considering how some of the other pictures from the same trip came out, this one, from a moving vehicle on a dirt road, is down right resplendent.  It is of the Toquima Mountains, specifially, Alta Toquima, from Monitor Valley...almost exactly the geographic center of the state.

Monitor valley gets its name for a small hill at the base of the Toquima Mountains (not the Monitor Range on the other side of the valley, mind you) shaped like the U.S.S. Monitor.  Unfortunately the Film Gnomes ate my picture (from a moving vehicle) of this hill, so you'll have to use your imagination.

This thing didn't sink right away!

This is a spectacular and very remote are of the state accessable only via the Old Belmont Road...there is nary a speck of pavement for almost sixty miles!

Back to the 21st century for the next one.  Welcome to Mountain City!

Does this mean that Sarah Palin can breathe easier?  Does this mean the Grammar

Gnomes are going the way of Mike Sanford?

In a break with tradition, I'm including a third, 'bonus' photo.  This one is from Cortez, across Cortez Canyon, at the foot of Mt. Tenabo in the Cortez Mountains, looking at the northernmost extremity of the Toiyabe Range.  Cortez!  I mean...Olé!

Let the WAC play BEGIN!