HWY 318 North of Vegas question.
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Living in Idaho, I've had the pleasure of driving to Las Vegas a fee times. I prefer HWY 93 for much of the trip. There is a section where I get off and run HWY 318 for a few. Right around mile marker 27-28 looks like a mile of good climbing. It looks like red sandstone to the average Joe, but I'd wager its ash fall, well sorted, and splitters that make you feel like you're in Indian Creek. |
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Yep. What is the area Called? Who owns it? |
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Those are the White River Narrows. There are climbing routes on the east side of the Hwy but the west side is off limits because its an archaeological site. A few months ago Chairman Obama declared the entire area the "Basin and Range National Monument" because someone built some stupid monoliths out there. Not sure how that affects climbing access now. |
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I know where I'm headed the next time there's a Government Shut down. |
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I have been up and down the 318 Hwy dozens of times over the last 25 years. It has not change a smidgen. Never any graffiti or trashing. Now all of a sudden it is so urgent to protect this area because of the barren uninhabited expanse that represents the west. I think that's how Harry Reid put it. Some friend of a friend spent alot of time and money eating psychedelic mushrooms and building these gigantic monolithic structures out of the earth, calling it "The City". So, my guess is they made it a National Monument (against the wishes of everyone in those counties and the state of Nevada) just to attract visitors on buses to pay an admission fee to see "The City" and I'm sure Harry will get his. Probably compensation for Obama's goons taking Harry's eye out for losing the Senate. |
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Seems that part of Nevada could use the economic help, but it's hard to say how things will change at this point. Now that the ranchers have sold out to SNWA, is subsidized recreation supplanting subsidized ranching, and what do you think of Reid's Yucca Mountain reasoning? |