Just got back from my three day camping research and exploration trip to the property, and all I can say is, it is amazing. It is located on totally flat land, and behind it is nothing but mountain, which I trekked almost 3/4's of the way up and that took almost two hours twenty minutes downhill. But man what a majestic view of the valley from that height.
The valley is almost empty for as far as you can see except for a few hardy encampments that dot the floor of the valley. It is completly silent of all human sounds other than a occasional car on the well maintained road that cuts through the lower corner of the property.
Believe it or not, but not only is there power lines that run along the road but the pole that is on the corner of my property has a cell site unit on the post and a 110volt gf outlet at the base of the pole. The cellphone signal was crystal clear even at the top of the mid-level peaks. I found several burial sites don't know if they're Indian or Miners, or what. I also found several monuments built out of rocks, some quite massive. It's a lot hella lot further from the dry lake bed than it looks in the pictures it was quite a trek. Discovered a really cool cave right at the foot of the mountain dug out of the rock. The 4ft round entrance hole opened up to what was maybe a 10' around, by 10-15' high cave, complete with a 1-2' round vent hole above what appeared to be the firepit maybe even living quarters. Access from the road was very easy with service dirt road paths already kind of established.
Water looks like it's tank based out there so it appears to be the water solution of choice rather than dig a well. Starting at the road, the ground is hard packed but silty, powdery, sandy dirt, that transforms into rocky granite hillside. The rocks that make up the area and mountain is amazing there is a rainbow of quartz of every hue imaginable of all sizes, you just want put every rock you see in you're pocket they're so beautiful. This is mixed with what appears to be pourous Lava type rocks, some sort of irridesent shale type stuff, and other stuff that looks like it was transport from someother place altogether. The days were warm, sunny with some high clouds and hardly any winds because of the way the mountains close around the valley. I'll have to wait and see if windpower generation is even remotely achieveable. I would have thought that you would get a natural gust of wind, but no I hardly remember any wind. The nights were frigid, the low 30's and the days a balmy 74. All and all more than I could ever have hoped for and more. Can't wait for the next road trip sometime towards the begining of January. Travel time from Hollywood was about 1hr and 50 mins, mostly due to being in the MPV van that settled in at a speed of about 60-65. I of course drive more like 75-80 and would have made it in far less time. The milage count was about 110 miles. There is a Stater Bros Market at the fork in the 14 highway and Red Rock Rd. (which is my street and dang near the only street for maybe 20 some miles) maybe about 15 to 20 minutes away.
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There is a low to the ground grass and some sparse chapperral and chest high native bush that grows up and down the valleys and Mountains except for the huge white chalky area that makes up the dry lakebed called Kohen Lake.
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the rebbi
