Part Two: https://youtu.be/c_K3YqnZ-ps
During this Overland trip, Burning Man was in full force as 100,000 people flocked to the Nevada Playa. That said: you won't find me there. I was 100 miles east in search of abandoned ghost towns and gold mines as relics of the Comstock Lode era in the Nevada desert.
This Overland expedition ended up being way more involved than I ever thought, but exploring along the "Loneliest Highway in America" on the old Pony Express route and Lincoln Highway was absolutely epic. It's one thing to read about history in some textbook, it's entirely different experience to re-live it. Together with my Jeep and "Nevada Ghost Towns & Mining Camps" by Stanley Paher, I setout to explore the American West.
Standby for Part Two!
Photo/Information Credit:
1. https://nvtami.com/index.php/2021/06/02/hercules-vulture-jack-pot-mines-nevada/
2. https://forgottennevada.org/sites/photos/Hercules/
3. https://www.nvexpeditions.com/churchill/hercules.php
4. "Nevada Ghost Towns and Mining Camps" Stanley Paher
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
01:20 "The Book""
02:55 History of WONDER
04:55 Thunderstorm
05:50 Exploring the Northern Route
08:12 Heading Back Downhill
08:50 Horse Creek Camp Military Training Area?
10:35 I Found the Hidden Road
14:00 HERCULES
16:15 Heartbreak on the Trail
18:19 Setting up Camp
21:44 Morning in Hercules
24:18 Back On the Trail to the South
25:00 Up the Northern Route
28:00 I Think We Found It
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