Tag: Owl Club
A Visit to Battle Mountain During HPV Speed Challenge
We are in Battle Mountain for the World’s Fastest Human-Powered Speed Challenge, which is a contest to see whose bicycle can go fastest on five miles of straight, flat Highway 305 about 15 miles...
4th of July in Austin
by Gage T. Smith, "the Picon guy"
Founded in the 1860s, Austin has always been the town that refused to die. Forever, it was the county seat of Lander County — until it wasn't. The...
NevadaGram #217 – Eureka 4th of July, Yerington Museum, Fort Churchill
Nevada's biggest cities are near its edges, and as a consequence our city-dwellers don't have as much connection with small town Nevada as they might otherwise, and so they miss out on a big...
NevadaGram #182 – Visits to Eureka, Tonopah and Winnemucca, Richard Bangs Makes it to...
In Silver City, Saturday August 20th was a hot and happy summer's day as townspeople, former residents, grandparents, friends from out of town, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins by the dozens gathered at...
NevadaGram #24 – Too Much Fun at the Armpit Festival, Historic Hotel Auctioned, and...
The First Annual Festival in the Pit was a huge success, and Battle Mountain is still experiencing the bliss.
This flamboyant and flourishing offspring of the Ultimate Insult and the Old Spice deodorant company, drew...
Trip Report #18 – Pahrump Winery, The MaryJane Sisters, Nevada Variations
At Pahrump the buzz is all about the sale of the state's first and only Winery to Western Horizon Resorts, a Colorado company which is now building a new 250-unit RV Park alongside the...
