This last weekend we had our annual ¨man only¨ get together known as ¨Scratch and Spit.¨ The best part is the trek out into the wilds of Nevada and Eastern California, where we like to travel dirt roads and see little visited parts of these great states.

Below is a view of the landscape on Bodie Road down in the canyon behind the old ghost town of the same name. Notice the old ruins just behind the trucks where the reddish brush is growing, just to the right of the cowboy.

Although we saw the below sign, we ignored it immediately and fearlessly drove on. No one even got close to needing their four wheel drive, although there was a close squeeze where a large rock had fallen into the road, and one swampy spot that looked worse than it really was.

Wide open spaces are the attraction, and Nevada is the place to find it. You are looking toward Lucky Boy Pass, and beyond those mountains is Walker Lake and Hawthorne, Nevada.

Where ever there is water, there are aspens, and at this time of year they really put on a show of color among the otherwise drab green of the dominant Pinyon Pine forest.

This patch next to the road looked like they had been plugged in and electrified.

Coming off the Kingsbury grade, we got this view of the idyllic Carson Valley.