slgwv's photos with the keyword: Big Smoky Valley

View southwesterly from the Simpson Park Mountains, from one of the trails off Hickison Summit on US 50. Snow-capped Toiyabe Range in the distance--the persistence of the snow cover this year is why we weren't hiking over there! Big Smoky Valley below them. Lander County, Nevada.

Nevada, USA. Looking out eastward from Summit Canyon, over the low part of the Toquima Range in the middle distance to the Monitor Range on the skyline. Framed by steeply dipping quartzite beds of the Gold Hill Formation; picture taken from near the site of the New Moose tungsten mine.

Antelocapra americana. The pronghorn "antelope" of North America is actually the last surviving member of a group of ruminants intermediate between deer and cows/true antelope. Both sexes have horns, with the males' much longer, that consist of a bony core and outer sheath that's shed annually. Big Smoky Valley, Nevada, USA. The prominent gray-green shrub is sagebrush. When I was a kid we _never_ used to see antelope in these central Nevada valleys--they'd all been exterminated by the late 19th century or so. In recent decades, there's been a big effort to reintroduce pronghorns to their historic range--with some success, as seen here! Map position approximate due to the loss of the "satellite view" feature.

Big Smoky Valley, Nevada, USA.

Nye County, Nevada, USA. Looking north along the Toiyabe Range.

An enormous active gold mine in Nevada's Big Smoky Valley. Telephoto view from Carvers, NV.

On Nevada 376 in the Big Smoky Valley. Looking east to the Toquima Range, which is blanketed by a late-season snowfall.

I.e., whirlwind. Looking east. Out in a playa in the middle of Big Smoky Valley, Nevada. Toquima Range beyond.