What Goes Up Must Come Down (or "how the west was fun pt. 2")

April 15,

Knowing that today would be a shorter day, we took our sweet time hanging out in our nice, warm motel room relaxing and enjoying Internet, warm water and shelter. Our intent was to hold off departure until it warmed up outside but as soon as we stepped out the door, it started snowing a bit. We warmed ourselves up by starting the day with a long climb out of Eureka.
We made it to the top and coasted for 6 miles downhill into some more incredibly straight roads where you are never really sure if you are getting anywhere or if you are going uphill or downhill...actually, it's pretty easy to tell when we're going uphill.
There were two more climbs along the way to our current campground. We made it up the second one smoothly but couldn't quite endure the third and tallest climb (so we walked it to the very top).


we go through a jar of peanut butter every two days, and it keeps us going!
(as advertised)

At the top, we met two other cyclists who are headed on the same route as us. They had been snowed in at Eureka for the past three nights. By the sounds of it, we got in and out just in the knick of time!
We headed the rest of the way down to the campground which is on BLM land (Bureau of Land Management). They own most of the land in Nevada and it free to camp there. We didn't quite know what to expect from it but it turned out to be an amazing place.


Each site has its own wind break, shaded picnic table and fire pit. Also a surprise is that there is a really large reservoir here. It's quite refreshing to see a body of water after miles and miles of nothing but high desert and mountains.


Chantale scrounged up some firewood from the other campsites here so when the wind dies down we plan to have a nice campfire and then head off to bed.
The weather is finally clearing up so it looks like we should have a nice couple days ahead of us for the last parts of Nevada, to Ely an then Great Basin National Park.

Location:The Lonliest Road in America