slgwv's photos with the keyword: 8180

The Jeep road that used to cross this high valley has pretty much vanished, overgrown completely in the drainage below. Altho the old alignment becomes more obvious beyond that point, not even ATVs have been that way in years! Sierra Nevada, California, above Hope Valley and north of Carson Pass. The road had continued beyond the site of the old Alpine tungsten mine, and I suspect it was intended for tungsten prospecting, except that the Federal government yanked the "strategic metal" subsidies ca. 1957--