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Posted: 03 Jan 2019


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Schell Creek Range
Duck Creek Valley
Kalamazoo Summit


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A Storm in the Desert

A Storm in the Desert
Looking southwesterly over Duck Creek Valley from the improbably named Kalamazoo Summit Road over the Schell Creek Range, in far eastern Nevada. Every so often the monsoon reaches this far northwest! I'm just below Kalamazoo Summit (8953 ft/2729 m) here. The prominent water gap in the center is Gallagher Gap, where Duck Creek crosses the range of the same name into Steptoe Valley. The small town of Ely (EE-lee, just like the original in England), Nevada is 15-20 miles off in the distance, at the base of the mountains on the far side. It's an old mining town that has a new lease on life from tourism, plus some modest ranching.

Doug Shepherd, , Smiley Derleth, tiabunna and 6 other people have particularly liked this photo


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 Herb Riddle
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Great lighting to this mighty landscape. Well done.

Cheers, Herb
6 years ago.
 slgwv
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Thanks, everyone! As I like to repeat, Nevada's not all just flat desert! ;)
6 years ago.
 slgwv
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And it occurs to me, on looking at the name of the pass I'm about to summit, that nostalgic emigrants didn't just name things after places in the Old Country. They also named them for places in the eastern US! The original Kalamazoo is in Michigan.
6 years ago.
 tiabunna
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That's a great weather image, apart from the landscape. On the landscape, at this point you were roughly 2000 ft higher than the highest mountain in Australia!
6 years ago.
 slgwv
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Thanks, George! Yeah, there's more relief in Nevada than is popularly realized-- ;)

The contrast with the weather when I took this pic with that when we returned a couple weeks later was also striking. The southeasterly monsoonal flow had weakened to the point that the wind was coming from the west--bringing smoke from the California wildfires! All you could have seen from here then was murk.
6 years ago.

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