tamrock
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These are some of the sites on my trip to Yerington Nevada. It's a little town out in the hot, high and dry western edge of Nevada. The town sits along the Walker river which drains into a sink to the east of the mountains. Coming down from the mine I was at on the east side of the valley the land is very desolate. Down along the river it's all like a garden of Eden, from all the irrigation taken from this short river that comes out of the Sierra Nevada mountains. I finished my work there early and I packed a lunch, but I was out of there by 10:30 AM so I had my lunch at a little rest area called Buckland Station. I started walking around and was hearing this pretty loud YIP YIP YIP sound. Looking in the direction from where the sound was coming I saw this squirrel of some kind up on a post yipping away at me I guess. As I looked around I saw other keeping an eye on me. The rest area sits along the Carson river and there are some pretty huge Cottonwoods along the river and these squirrels really blend in to the trunks of those Cottonwoods. Even the Sage Brush along this river are unusually taller compared to the high country of the Rocky Mountains. Must be the climate being much warmer all year long over the higher elevations. Today it was getting close to 100.
