The ET Highway in Nevada

We traveled and geocached the ET Highway in October 2013 after meeting fellow geocachers Clay & Gus from Las Vegas. These two young guys dreamed up the idea of placing geocaches along NV state highway 375 as it is about 100 miles of very boring road. Check out those two blog posts.
The Middle of No Where ~ Rachel NV  and Geocaching the ET Highway


Completing the caches along the ET Highway is a goal of Hubby. I agreed to 3 days in Tonopah NV (not Rachel...once was enough) on our way back to SD this trip. In October 2013 there were 1500 Clay & Gus geocaches. The total now is 2400 of theirs and another 1000 by other people. We did about 550 in 2013. Read the blog to see what our total was this trip.

Day 1, April 13th

we spent most of the day caching along 2 highways, 6 & 375

snow capped mountains in the distance

mule deer? antelope?

typical hides of the geocaches

small film canister or pill bottle in a pile of rocks

every 526' ~ 10 in a mile

3 highway patrol cars

WTH?

large piece of equipment on the road

very large piece of equipment

That was the excitement for Day 1 between Rachel and Tonopah. Oh, and a record number of geocaches collected by the two of us ~ 425. (Previous record 326) We didn't even work that hard on Day 1. We broke the old record, that is all that mattered.

Day 2, April 14th

no highway geocaching today

sometimes it is more important to know where you have been

somebody spent a lot of time and patience building this cairn

and this is what is ahead of us

more snow capped mountains

I apologize for the extra appendage  

I didn't place it or realize it was there

(hey, there's not a lot to do for entertainment in this area!)

the horse sign and one for cattle are placed along 

the 110 miles of road/highway

cattle are often grazing along the highway

no fences ~ this is open range country

I saw some horses on Day 1, but Hubby didn't think they

were wild horses

we saw several on this day & close enough to get photos

Hubby did his horse 'neigh' imitation and got their attention

in fact this Big Boy started coming to the van

Hubby got back inside...after getting the cache

and allowing me to get some good photos

then just a bit farther down the road some cows were 

grazing and drinking

this one posed with being 'called'

and some more horses

one also was listening to Hubby's horse call

maybe another stallion?????

Seeing the wild horses at such a close range made my day!  There are some great perks to caching back in the mountains, away from the highway. 

Day 3, April 15th

fog? rain?

windy or windy??? short i or long i???

it is coming closer!

snow pellets/sleet

interesting mountains to the west all day

the road moved around the tree

we stopped in Rachel for lunch

and some souvenir shopping

town hasn't grown since 2013

same tourist attractions

celebrating 13,000 caches

and 12,000 caches

we reached these goals somewhere along the ET Highway

and the 1450 caches we found and signed

didn't see any signs for Area 51

this building says it is the research center

I don't think so!

So now we concentrate on getting back to SD. Geocaching will be incidental. Watching the weather will take center stage.