Stupid, Stupid Tourists

Well, I followed Pammy once again and you should see what happened!!! Actually I was in the lead for a bit too so it's not ALL her fault. What was supposed to be a short mile hike turned into a long 2 to 3 mile mountain climb. Eat your heart out Jerry, I can climb mountains at altitude! We are at 4000 ft. here in Fallon. Being bored with not a lot to do around here, we decided to go out on an adventure. We first went to the Stillwater National Refuge, not much there. Saw a few White Pelicans in the very, very far away, distance; some Canada Geese and a bunch of Coots. Then, since we were already east of town, we decided to go to Grimes Point. Petroglyphs and other acient things at there. Oh, by the way, we were looking at items from up to 8000 years ago and watching F18's do touch and goes out at the Naval training center. Very cool when you think about it. Were is the ocean, you might say, well the whole valley was one of the largest lakes known in prehistoric times. We walked around the archaeological site where the majority of the petroglyphs were and learned a few things, here is just a sample:

Then we decided to go visit some of the caves that the indians of the past used in prehistoric times. This is where the stupid tourists come in. Since you are walking in areas that are "natural", trails are not well marked or real obvious, soooooo....

Pam and I started off on our adventure expecting a 1 mile hike to see several caves and other things from the past. In doing so, we got to station 1 and then wandered off thinking that we were on the trail and wondering why we hadn't come to the next station. Of course our tour guide was trying his best to show us the right way.

We climbed up a saddle that a mountain goat might question it's sanity, and then on up the mountain only to find that we were WAY off the beaten path. However, there had been a lot of fools in the past because we were following a trail of sorts, one that had been used a lot. Anyway, stupid us finally found the right trail after about an hour and a half of playing goat. Here are some shots to show just were we went, enjoy...

The one of us, is just to show that we really were the idiots up on top... That is the valley behind us and what was the lake 7000 years ago, that they estimate got to be 700 ft. deep when it was at it's fullest.

It was really amazing up there to see for miles and imagine what it was like all those years ago.

Way down there was our truck and two Ranger vehicles. We thought they were there to rescue us but no, alas they just wanted to go for a "short" hike.

The most amazing thing about it was that I never hurt other than I couldn't breathe real well for a bit there. The other thing was, it was REALLY worth the climb!

On another note we are pretty sure that our parts are going to be here on Monday, and that means that they will probably be done by Wednesday or Thursday... Later