Now in Nevada.
I woke early, and noted the ground was moist looking at the campsite. A brief walk around showed it to be slightly yielding but not muddy, yet. The forecast is for some more rain over the weekend so I decided to move on.
I drove through the first significant town along US Highway 50, Ely, and found it to be meh. I stopped only for a picture of the US 50 sign noted in the Mindtrip.AI route.
US 50, this portion of it anyways, starting from perhaps 20 miles east of the Utah/Nevada border is indeed light in terms of other vehicles.
Lots of hilly/mountainous terrain as well. Uma, the VRRV did OK though slowly up the inclines at times. I kept the engine at around 4000 rpm so as not to strain it too much.
The couple of BLM sites I checked out near the town of Ely proved to be quite small and not great. So, I kept on going to the Illipah Reservoir campground run by the BLM, which is also free to use.
Much better, this will be a good spot to spend a few days while I wait for the weekenders to come and go.
Pics of the reservoir from my camper:
The sites are quite large, I guess to provide plenty of turnaround room. There's only one roofed picnic bench and wind barrier per site so hopefully no one gets the idea to share with me.
Later in the afternoon, with temperatures in the high 60s those still quite windy, I went out on Yagi my TW200 to take a look around.
Found a trail that led up a hill that overlooks the entire campground and reservoir:
I then came off the hill and went out along a trail to the hilltop on the other side of the reservoir:
There's a trail that leads away from the reservoir and into the hills and valleys where Illipah Creek feeds the reservoir. I only went maybe a couple of miles and then I turned around.
Here is Yagi on the spit of land near the actual dam where fishermen like to try to look apparently:
I was shooting into the sun in the above picture so I will try to get a better one tomorrow morning when the light comes is at the right angle.
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