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PostPosted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 9:29 pm 
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Saturday, Sept. 26 will be the annual Lincoln County Trails Day event. It will take place in Caliente, NV this year. Events include a 4x4 run, hiking trails and ATV trail rides.

More info can be found here: http://lincolncountynevada.mhsoftware.c ... 1087830373

As the link says, the runs are free to attend, the only cost being for the dinner and t-shirts.

You can email them for pre-registration info, or I can send a registration to anyone interested, just PM your address. You'll be able to register day of the event, just t-shirts and dinners may not be guaranteed.

I'll be leading the 4x4 run. We'll be leaving the Caliente Depot and heading west toward Delamar and Helene, stopping off at both of their cemeteries and finishing off by stopping at the Oak Summit Trilobite Site.

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PostPosted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 9:45 pm 
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One serious note to mention. Unfortunately, The Best in the Desert will be having an offroad race that weekend in Alamo, and it encircles Caliente. One reason as to why my run will be semi-short as I have a limited area due to their course, but the major issue will be they will be likely using Caliente as a source for motel rooms. Also scheduled that week is the 100th anniversary for the Lincoln County High School. So there will be numerous past alumni attending, again taking up the already shortage of motel rooms.

Anyone attending will have to reserve ASAP if any rooms are available. Note, all numbers are area code 775 unless noted:

Caliente:

Lodging:
Caliente Hot Springs Motel 726-3777
Midway Motel 726-3199
Rainbow Canyon Motel 726-3291
Shady Motel 726-3106 http://www.shadymotel.net

RV Parks:
Agua Caliente RV Park 726-3399
Young's RV Park 726-3418

Pioche:

Lodging:
Hutchings Motel: 962-5404
Overland Hotel: 962-5895
Motherlode Motel: 775-962-5159
Wright's Country Cabins: 866-810-7303 or 775-962-5205
Wright's Country Cabins Web site: http://www.wrightscountrycabins.com

RV Parks:
Eagle Valley RV Park: 962-5293 Web site: http://www.EagleValleyNV.com
Roll Inn RV Park: 962-5566

Panaca:

Lodging:
Pine Tree Inn: Phone: 728-4675, Cell: 962-2495, PineTreeBNB.com, info@pinetreebnb.com

RV Park:
Dotson’s Trailer Park: 728.4454

Alamo:

Lodging:
Alamo Inn: 725-3371 or 888-740-8009
Cowboy's Dream Bed and Breakfast (opening soon!)
Sunset View Inn: 725-3336
Windmill Ridge: 725-3686, WindmillRidge.biz

RV Parks:
Alamo Auto Motel: 725-3336
Alamo Truck Stop: 725-3337
"R" Place RV Park: 725-3545




Tent and RV camping is also available at the state parks nearby:

Spring Valley: http://parks.nv.gov/sv.htm
Echo Canyon: http://parks.nv.gov/ec.htm
Cathedral Gorge: http://parks.nv.gov/cg.htm
Kershaw-Ryan, the closest park: http://parks.nv.gov/kr.htm
Beaver Dam: http://parks.nv.gov/bd.htm


Also, there should be an area set up for camping in Caliente, just as you come into town on the left. Across from the BLM Office. It will be free, first come, first serve. But it is about 3 acres in size.

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 8:45 pm 
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Some pics:

http://community.webshots.com/album/573 ... RA?start=0

The above graveyard is the original Delamar one, and is usually missed. Sometimes referred to as the old one.

These pics are from one of our old runs:

http://travel.webshots.com/album/560911903ehxoXW

The graveyard in these is the Helene cemetery, which was later taken over by Delamar. Referred to as the new one.

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 10:22 pm 
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I know the year I went, I had a great time. A lot of awesome trails to explore in that region. Unfortunately, I will be in Paris, France that day. Going to see Jimmy Buffett in concert before returning home from a European vacation...LOL Hopefully it won't be a National Lampoon style one. :lol:

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 10:48 pm 
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JeepinJoe02 wrote:
Hopefully it won't be a National Lampoon style one. :lol:



"Hey look kids, Big Ben"

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 10:17 am 
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GaryB wrote:
JeepinJoe02 wrote:
Hopefully it won't be a National Lampoon style one. :lol:



"Hey look kids, Big Ben"

ROFLMAO!!! That's so funny!!!

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 8:16 am 
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Gary, I have a crew of folks coming from Vegas.

A question. We will probably be camping in Caliente. Normally, to do the Delamar trail area I would trailer to the turn-off from the highway and unload there. Is that the way that you are going? Would we be leaving the trail at that same spot? Is that turn-off going to be full of racers? (Sorry for so many questions :D ) Or I could just leave 1/2 hour early and drive the Jeep to the trail head. (It's kinda scary 8) )

Thanks for any info you can give..

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 11:46 am 
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According to the BLM, the BiTD racers and their crew will not be an issue, though we might run into some support/official crews. But that shouldn't be an issue either.

The trail I'm using starts about 2 miles East of the signed Delamar road, but we will be coming out at that signed road to get back to US93. At the signed road, there is room for a few trucks and trailers as long as BiTD isn't using it. But there is also a NDOT gravel pit between the two trails off US93 that has quite a bit of room on the access road. So if you trailered out there, you could get back to it.

The only issue is I'm trying to work out a start time, and I was planning on hitting the Oak Springs Trilobite site as well. I just don't know if I'll hit the site first or last as the motorcycles are going there as well, and I don't want to overlap with them. Hopefully I can have a start time next week so I can figure out the when to hit the trilobite site. Right now I hope for it to be around 8-9 AM. So you could likely check in then, then head out early if needed. BTW the site is less than a mile from where the trail starts off US93.

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 11:51 am 
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Also, the trail is easy enough that I'm doing it in my crew cab. There's just one section that you have to have 4x or a 2X with a crawler gear or you likely wouldn't make it. And the last thing I wanted was some cross over coming out and getting stuck :roll: So we listed it as sounding tougher than it is.

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 10:24 pm 
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We're in sounds like a goooood time! :wink:

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 5:29 pm 
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Liz and I went last year in Pioche and we really had a great time. I think we'll try to make it an annual event for us. We really enjoyed the trail and the history of it all.
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Are they going to have a raffle like they did in Pioche? We really liked that part too. It's probably because we bought a bunch of tickets and kicked some butt.

I'll see if we can get a few more of my VV4W friends to join us.

The food was great and we made some new friends.

For a good time not too far from home you can't beat it.

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 12:38 pm 
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They're planning on a raffle again. IIRC MRAN chipped in for a grand prize of some kind.

But I remember Jen kicking the most butt, so much so that she was giving stuff away.

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 1:07 pm 
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Yes I won a few prizes, quite a few! That was fun! We will be back again this year, bringing extra friends :D .

Gary, do you have any idea if any race groups will be camping at the Silver State Trailhead? We may be camping up there because of the titanic size trailer we have.

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 5:10 pm 
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Jeepgal wrote:
Yes I won a few prizes, quite a few! That was fun! We will be back again this year, bringing extra friends :D .

Gary, do you have any idea if any race groups will be camping at the Silver State Trailhead? We may be camping up there because of the titanic size trailer we have.



Jen,

Let us know where you end up camping. Liz and I would love to hang out with you guys again if there's room.

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 5:29 pm 
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The idea is to camp there at SST. If there are too many people there then there is another spot down the road we can try. If that one is packed then I'm not sure where we are camping. We will be wingin' it to find a place. So...I won't really know where we are camping 'till I get there. If ya want, pm me your number and I can call when we get there (fri. night). If there is a signal..

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