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UER Forum > Archived US: Pacific Southwest > Sputnik 1: In the Nevada wasteland... (Viewed 382 times)
crows 


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Sputnik 1: In the Nevada wasteland...
< on 1/27/2014 3:40 AM >
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Oof. Where to start. Hello, I'm visiting! Early last fall I drove from my home in eastern IA to the fine city of San Francisco to retrieve my partner and their two cats and bring them back to IA. Another friend accompanied. Despite being on a fairly close timetable and doing the return trip with a car full of stuff and felines, we snuck off to do a fair bit of exploring in between. I have a lot of pictures to sort through and size but I'd like to get them posted here, and this is the first set.

We found this desolate little place on the westbound leg of the trip crossing NV, having taken a random exit to get close to a very large generating station spotted at great distance from the highway (dem stacks. Mmm-mm!) By the time we came to understand that the rambly gravel track wasn't going to get us anywhere near the factory, we could see -something- out there in the middle of nothingness so I kept at, driving my little sedan down this road I shouldn't probably have been on. When I say 'gravel' I mean a shaky euphemism for loose fist-size rocks with tire-ruts deep enough that I was sometimes scraping the undercarriage. Worth it, though.

So, project Sputnik, post one!


This was where I stopped the car. We walked the rest of the way cause... I still had a lot of miles I needed to drive and was very, very far from home.


It was so quiet the place really did seem possessed with something, the kind of way that makes you want to call out 'hello' even though it's pretty obvious there haven't been signs of life out here for ages.




The detritus is a mixture of bleached wood and cow bones. There were a lot of cow bones. On seeing the photos, my partner submit that it may have been a tannery or something. I really have no idea, and haven't ever seen a facility like that, even on a small scale, so I really wouldn't know what to look for either way.










We did have the iconic crow squalling at us on approach. Really the only sound...

...minus the hum of the factory.





Go home, lonely chair. You are drunk.








There was really -nothing- else out here for miles and miles.


This is probably my favourite photo from the whole endeavor. My camera was dying at the time, so I didn't get as many as I wanted to choose from, and wish I'd gotten a better shot of the remnants of a treehouse that was in that thing.





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Re: Sputnik 1: In the Nevada wasteland...
<Reply # 1 on 1/27/2014 3:55 AM >
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What a weird little......tower thing. Kind of a cool spot.

I have changed my personal exploring ethics code. From now on it will be: "Take only aimed shots, leave only hobo corpses." Copper scrappers, meth heads and homeless beware. The Jonsered cometh among you, bringing fear and dread.

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Re: Sputnik 1: In the Nevada wasteland...
<Reply # 2 on 1/27/2014 4:33 AM >
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Nevada just gives and gives to UE....in a weird kind of way.

Nice pics, although a couple of them are off-angle and cause my vertigo to flare up a bit.

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Re: Sputnik 1: In the Nevada wasteland...
<Reply # 3 on 1/27/2014 3:37 PM >
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Posted by Jonsered
What a weird little......tower thing. Kind of a cool spot.


Personal water tower. They are pretty common in rural CA. You put a small tank at the top, like the size of a large hot tub, and you get enough water pressure for a small farming operation.

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Re: Sputnik 1: In the Nevada wasteland...
<Reply # 4 on 1/28/2014 12:51 AM >
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nice

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Re: Sputnik 1: In the Nevada wasteland...
<Reply # 5 on 1/29/2014 10:07 PM >
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Ha ha ha... and by some being at a weird angle, you apparently mean all but one.

Good job, D. One day I will be a better photographer, but last summer was DEFINITELY not that day. I'll try to pay more attention to that next time I'm out, even if it is just with my phone (which this was). XD Cause yeah. That's all super crooked.

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Re: Sputnik 1: In the Nevada wasteland...
<Reply # 6 on 2/7/2014 7:18 PM >
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very cool find

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Re: Sputnik 1: In the Nevada wasteland...
<Reply # 7 on 2/7/2014 8:01 PM >
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I'd like to see some night shots from this location. Nice find.

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