Back Country Byway : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Back Country Byway / snowpeak
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示 2.1 |
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| 説明 | I've been out to this remote area in the southern tip of Nevada several times. One new thing I noticed on this trip I found both encouraging and troubling. The main road, New Gold Butte Road, goes south from I-15 near the mile 112 exit, south of Mesquite. After crossing the Virgin River, the road is paved for the first 25 miles, to Whitney Pockets. After that, the dirt road is well maintained and goes farther south to Gold Butte.The area is riddled with double-track trails, and driving down them in my truck is possible. They take one to many strange places.The new thing I noticed is that the BLM has put up signs and markers on these trails. It calls them Back Country Byways. You need a high-clearance vehicle, and 4WD is a nice thing to have, but not needed if it's dry.I saw several caravans of ATVs, maybe a string of 5 to 10, full of old geezers like me. They were all very polite and seemed like nice folks, but they raised a hell of a dust cloud. I saw them only in the daytime. I guess they go back to Las Vegas at night, but I don't know. I didn't see any tour buses, and indeed very few vehicles parked at Whitney Pockets, so their presence is a mystery. Maybe they are the souls of wilderness lovers who have passed on, wandering through the desert.I am happy to see them out there enjoying life in the Back Country, but also they do bring a bit too much civilization to this eternally quiet place. It's a paradox: prosperity and progress bring the ability to find and explore these serene and empty places of beauty, and destroy them in the process. |
| 撮影日 | 2015-01-08 14:19:41 |
| 撮影者 | snowpeak , Placitas, NM, USA |
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| カメラ | DSC-RX100M3 , SONY |
| 露出 | 0.008 sec (1/125) |
| 開放F値 | f/5.6 |