A Drive to the Ghost Town of Hamilton

A drearily cloudy, windy and chilly day today with infrequent sightings of the Sun.

In the afternoon I took the Honda CRV out and decided to drive the 10 mi or so along Forest Road 401 to the ghost town of Hamilton. 

The Forest Road was in pretty good condition so traveling was fine, though the weather looked worse and worse as I approached the town's location. 

It started raining/hailing soon after I got there but I got these pics before I made it out of there just in case the road conditions got bad. 

Yeah the big shed building isn't of the same era.  Not sure what it was put up, perhaps later mining efforts?

As you can see I didn't spend a lot of time in the town, as I was leaving to get ahead of the worsening weather. 

Some more info:  Wikipedia 

Made it back to the campsite with no issues, though I did get hailed on as I drove along. I'm glad I did not take the TW! 

Spent the rest of the afternoon inside the RV out of the steadily cooling weather. It's supposed to get to 32° tonight as a low. I'll be moving out tomorrow towards the Fallon, Nevada area.  Not finding Nevada very scenic in terms of leading me to spend more time in between stops.

I'll probably be in the SF Bay area Tuesday evening.