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» Great Nevada Picture Hunt 2010 great nevada picture hunt
September/October 2010
Lightning, rainbows, and a leaping dog…ranchers, a motorcyclist, and paddle surfers in a fog—this year’s Great Nevada Picture Hunt photo contest had its share of pleasant surprises. The 2010 categories are the same as last year—City Limits, Wide Open, People, Adventure, and Events.
» Feature ghost towns
September/October 2010
The Silver State is home to the remains of hundreds of former towns. Some are little more than crumbled foundations or a picked-over garbage heap, but others have stood more steadfastly against the ravages of time and Nevada’s harsh elements to provide unique glimpses into a time long passed, but not forgotten.
» City Limits house party
September/October 2010
The defining vision for the Freight House District entails creating a little something for everyone. Long-term goals include building synergy between the Freight House District and downtown Reno by providing new entertainment choices with each passing block.
» Wide Open thunderbird lodge
September/October 2010
Imagine owning 27 miles of Lake Tahoe’s beautiful shoreline encompassing more than 40,000 acres. Sound impossible? Not if your name was George Whittell Jr., the former owner and resident of Thunderbird Lodge, now an intriguing Nevada tourist attraction.
» Wide Open mackay mansion reborn
September/October 2010
A tour of The Mackay Mansion Museum reveals many nuggets of Virginia City history. Perhaps the most fascinating is learning of a system of underground tunnels that once led from John Mackay’s home to a number of businesses in town. After a four-year hiatus, the museum reopened for tours on May 1.
» Tour Around Nevada boulder city
September/October 2010
Since it was established in the early 1930s to house workers who were building Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam), Boulder City has existed in a self-imposed time warp, a small crystal of tradition and propriety in the loose sands of the Mojave Desert. The contract to build Hoover Dam meant that Ragtown, a dusty tent city perched on a hill overlooking the Colorado River, would become a utopia of brick buildings, parks, and schools.
» Cravings the slanted porch
September/October 2010
An unfortunate side effect of my culinary travels is that a restaurant rarely surprises me anymore. Enter The Slanted Porch in Fallon, an environmentally conscious eatery that seems as if it were plucked out of a trendy urban neighborhood and dropped into charming, laid-back rural Nevada.
» History california trail tale
September/October 2010
In 1896, my great-great-great uncle, Oliver Goldsmith, published Overland in Forty-Nine, his recollections of traveling the California Trail, and gave hardbound copies to his family and friends. It is a remarkable account and tells of the hardships endured by equally remarkable people.
» Events Spotlight going the distance
September/October 2010
Nevada is home to nearly a dozen marathons that offer something for every runner. Take the Lake Tahoe Marathon, September 26, perhaps the most strikingly beautiful race in the country.
» People
Adam Bradley
Adam Bradley, 38, is what is called a thru-hiker. A pioneer in the relatively unknown sport of fastpacking (a seemingly masochistic union of backpacking and trail running), he holds the current speed record on the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail at a mere 65 days, nine hours, 58 minutes, and 47 seconds—21 hours faster than the previous record. While substantially shorter in distance than this transcontinental adventure, Bradley recently underwent a Nevada trek of far greater significance.
