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 Post subject: Sand Mountain, Nevada
PostPosted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 8:00 pm 
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Sand Mountain is a large sand dune a half-mile north of U. S. Highway 50, about 26 miles east of Fallon, Nevada. Sand Mountain is 2 miles long, a mile wide and more than 600 feet high. This perfect hill of fine bleached sand has blown into a box canyon over thousands of years from the flats of Lake Lahontan, an ancient sea now dry. The huge pile of sand is available to ATV enthusiasts who buzz up and down the dune, with the constant winds covering the tracks in short order.

About 10,000 years ago glaciers filled many of the valleys in the Sierra Nevada to the west. The cool, wet climate and runoff from these glaciers had created an immense inland lake now known as Lake Lahontan, covered some 8,500 square miles including most of northern and central Nevada and parts of Oregon, Utah, California and Idaho. But as the climate grew warmer and the glaciers retreated, the lake slowly started to dry up. About 4000 years ago the lake level dropped below where Sand Mountain now stands. All that remains are Pyramid and Walker lakes and a handful f dry lake beds such as the Humboldt and Carson sinks, the Black Rock Desert and Winnemucca Lake, near Pyramid Lake.

Meanwhile quartz particles, which the glaciers had ground away from the hard Sierra granite, were washed down the Walker River and deposited in the river's delta. As the wind blew across the delta this sand was picked up and carried high into the air. More than thirty miles to the northeast, the wind was slowed by a large basin on the southwest flank of the Stillwater Range. With its force broken by the mountain, the wind's burden of sand would fall into this natural trap. Over the centuries Sand Mountain grew until it reached its present height of almost 600 feet.

The wind is constantly changing the shape of Sand Mountain and sometimes the shifting of the sand will produce a soft rustling, or even an eerie booming sound. This unique characteristic has earned Sand Mountain its nickname of "Singing Mountain".

The Sand Mountain blue butterfly (Euphilotes pallescens arenamontana) inhabits only this single sand dune in Churchill County.

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Ah Sand Mountain! My neck of the woods. I have been going out to the area for about 20 years. The central mountain is huge (close to 800 feet) and certain parts of the mountain are very steep. Stock Pilots and Odysseys would find it difficult if not impossible to climb the mountain. There are quite a few small to large rolling dunes surrounding the mountain the are fun to play on where Odys and Pilots do just fine.

The BLM has restricted the areas where the kearney buckwheat grows. The area supports the kearney buckwheat butterfly which is an endangered species. The Local Indian tribe has tried over the years to close off the mountain as it is supposedly "sacred ground".

Anyway, 40 bucks for a week long pass (you can't buy a shorter length) or 100 bucks for a yearly pass. It is spring and fall area as it does get up to about 95 degrees in the summer and into the low 20s in the winter. Camping is centralized to one area and it gets quite crowded on the weekends. Stay away from the side of the mountain where all of the nuts like to drag race up the mountain and its not crowded at all.

As you mentioned Hoser, after about two days you've covered the entire riding area and are ready to go home. There is one thing that makes it fun is the night riding and the Friday and Saturday night fireworks show! Fireworks are against the law but quite a few people bring them out anyway!


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Here are the trip pics took my mom and my son, Drakman also came, camped and rode with us what a great trip http://www.pilotodyssey.com/cpg/thumbnails.php?album=5

Need to return some day.


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PostPosted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 9:05 pm 
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Hoser, I think your post here for Sand Mountain Nevada is supposed to belong with a post for Little Sahara.

I only wished Sand Mountain Nevada was that large and had something green around it!

All Sand Mountain Nevada has is Sage Brush, Lava Rocks and.........................SAND!

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 22, 2012 9:22 am 
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Randman wrote:
Hoser, I think your post here for Sand Mountain Nevada is supposed to belong with a post for Little Sahara.

I only wished Sand Mountain Nevada was that large and had something green around it!

All Sand Mountain Nevada has is Sage Brush, Lava Rocks and.........................SAND!

Rand

Hey your right glad someone is paying attention lmao One of these trips I need to venture further West :shock:


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PostPosted: Sun Apr 22, 2012 12:23 pm 
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Yeah, there is more to Nevada than Las Vegas!

Your welcome up north also!

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 22, 2012 1:30 pm 
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Randman wrote:
Yeah, there is more to Nevada than Las Vegas!

Your welcome up north also!

Rand



But I don't go to "Las Vegas" I go to the area to ride the desert, and spend usually one day at the daughters house that happens to be in one of the burbs of Vegas, never been to a casino, daughter drove me down the strip once to show me what "the strip" was after a few blocks of bumper to bumper I asked "is the whole strip like this" she said yes I told he get out out of here, I seen enough Vegas, Vegas is a dump reminds me of the 80's being lost on the south side of Chicago in the slums get 3 blocks off the strip its a junk yard garbage every place. :shock:


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PostPosted: Sun Apr 22, 2012 4:57 pm 
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Vegas sucks! Too many friggin people, to friggin HOT and all it consists of is casinos. The name of the game is.....who's casino is bigger or better. Although I live in Nevada I might visit a casino once every couple of months for the cheap meal deals you can get. My luck is so shitty at gambling that I might as well walk into a casino and light up a 20 dollar bill and through it into the ashtray and wait for my complimentary beer or mixed drink while acting like I'm playing a machine.

When ever I see someone sitting at a slot machine, I say to myself, "Thanks for paying my state taxes sucker!".

Casino's are for suckers!

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What really sucks is they still cant pay the bills and they are thinking about starting a state payroll tax?


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