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Location

Off of Cave Spring Road, 12 miles west of Silver Peak.

Participants

Michael5000

Expedition

Waking up in Hawthorne, Nevada, this hashpoint offered an opportunity for an adventure that wouldn't add much distance to the trip to Las Vegas. Plenty of time, but not much distance.

From where I left pavement near the intersection of US 6 and Nevada 773 to the hashpoint, and then continuing on to the mining camp at Silver Peak, was around 38 miles of unsigned dirt road. During that drive, I saw four other vehicles, so it wasn't the most remote road on Earth by any stretch. Still, I was glad to have redundant GPS, plus a pretty good little hand-drawn map I sketched on the way in.

The hashpoint was about a quarter mile off the road and high enough up that it felt like exercise, but it wasn't an incredibly difficult climb. The views, both from the hashpoint and all along the drive, were very striking -- it felt like some kind of live-action Minecraft scenario, with longer days and fewer monsters.

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Achievements

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