Elko, NV

My Eagle wagon had been parked in Idaho Spring, CO for the past 2 months. It was at friend's place. I drove it to CO with the intention of buying his Eagle Kammback and towing it home, but bought the other wagon with the V8 swap and drove that home. I was supposed to be back in a couple weeks but it didn't happen. I was asked to come back to Elko, NV for work, so I flew into Denver and picked up my wagon and drove 770 miles to Elko.

A minute after this pic, I lost my waterpump belt. Luckily I had one and the tools to change it. It took less than 15 minutes.



No Nevada sign, it's not in a safe place to pull over and take a pic.



After work today, a coworker a I decided to hit some trails. There is a lot of public land around here. We went out for a couple hours. Here are a few pics I took. My coworker took some also but I'm waiting for him to email them to me. Our job has been delayed a few days, so we are going to do some exploring this weekend.

 

I still love that Eagle, freek. Pretty country.
I don't understand the comment that you made (shown below)

No Nevada sign, it's not in a safe place to pull over and take a pic.

 

I like to get a pic of the car at the state line where there is usually a sign that says 'Welcome to ......". The Nevada sign is not in a safe place to pull next to, to a take a pic. I hope to have pics of 49 state signs with my Eagle some day. Unfortunately, I have to go to some states I've already been and didn't think to take a pic then.

 

Hey you were in my neighborhood!!! That is awesome!

 

I put right about 300 miles on the Eagle today. I started early in the morning and headed to Lamoille Canyon. It is paved the whole way but definitely worth the short drive from Elko. Absolutely gorgeous!

 

I then headed for a town named Jiggs. I read that there was a ghost town there. I drove the 30+ miles to Jiggs to find out the ghost town is just two old buildings with a couple other buildings from the last 50 years or so. One of those buildings was a bar. It was 10am and the sign on the door said open, so I walked in to see if the ghost town was down a dirt road somewhere. There was a rather elderly gentleman there and he said he lived there his whole life and didn't know of any ghost town, but directed me about 15 miles down the road to the Humboldt National Forest. I did see this Eagle parked in Jiggs.


Well, the guy was right. The road took me to the Ruby Mountains. This place was breath taking and packed with tons of trails. I only took a couple, but you could probably camp there for a week and not hit all the trails. I went back to town to pick up a coworker and came back. Most of the trails could have been down in a 2wd vehicle but there were a couple places where you need 4wd and low range.
















We did manage to find ourselves on a trail we probably shouldn't have been on. It was quite rocky and narrow. Lots of trail pin striping on the Eagle. My coworker has the pics of that trail and I'll get those tomorrow. We thought it would take us to another trail to get out but it was a dead end but the view was awesome there. It would have made a fantastic campsite overlooking the whole valley.

 

Great pics EF! Thanks for sharing. :2_thumbs_up_-_anima

 

I love your pictorial excursions, freek. I look forward to your pix. You have a good eye for nature's beauty. And you are right; that is some gorgeous country. Hard to recognize it as Nevada if you didn't know better. Got more? Bring it!

 

The pics you share, and the places you go are truley amazing.:2_thumbs_up_-_anima

 

Beautiful pics and awesome story- thanks for sharing!
Unrelated- I love the American Motors name and logo on the front edge of the roof rack- looks really sharp.

 

Fantastic pics!! Thanks for sharing...Love your Eagle!

 

Thanks guys. These are some of the pics that my coworker took. The pics of the narrow rocky trail don't do it justice. It was about 2 miles long and took us around an hour to get to the one end. It appeared to be a trail for side by sides.

 

Wow, freek...you drive places an ant couldn't get through! That one pic looks like that rock was about to take off the passenger side!
As usual...more great pix. Keep 'em coming, I love your excursions!

 

Almost makes me rethink about the kind of wagon I want. I said almost........

Great pics, EF.

 

Great Job on the Eagle ! Glad you enjoy it and like the Travel Pics.