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Calico mine ride
Calico mine ride












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These stories inspire a greater connection to the land. What becomes evident is the natural and cultural history is incredibly dense in this area. The area was once under 500′ of Lake Lahontan so evidence of tufa calcium carbonate is common. Descriptions of geothermal breccia and quartz veins were repeated in the technical descriptions of the area. The mine was known for gold, silver, copper, lead, and arsenic. And it takes the right attitude as demonstrated here!Ĭassidy Mine has great views to the north. There isn’t one kind of bike for the desert, but a sturdy All Terrain Bicycle is a minimum. I think I was associating the Cassidy Mine with an adjacent story of women owned/worked mines in Black Rock Country. There is value in tall tales if they entertain your imagination to find out more. But my research has inspired another trip to visit Pearl’s cabin near Leonard Creek and the Juanita Mine. While I strive for accuracy I think there is also room for tall tales and growing folklore of wild west characters. Web sources described her dress but said she wore $6,000 in diamonds on her wrist. I also heard she wore a calico dress encrusted with $6,000 of jewels. But I was just repeating what I (what I thought I had remembered, but clearly I was confused) had heard, I could not verify this claim with my limited poking around the web. It was once operated by a colorful local character, Josie Pearl, (not true!) or so my story went (my apologies for this inaccurate storytelling). Not Josie Pearl, but Stacey Wittek, the Executive Director of Friends of Black Rock High Rock, welcoming the campers and letting them know what they can expect from the RendezvousĬassidy Mine is a popular dispersed campsite. You can distinguish the Selenite, Granite and Black Rock Ranges, Calico Mountains, King Lear Peak, Black Rock Point, Steamboat and Old Razorback just to get your bearings. The playa appeared dark and shaded from the rain and broken light from the cloud cover. The climb gives excellent perspective to the Black Rock Desert playa. The ride took off from the “inlet”, “cove” below Cassidy Mine at Secondhand Spring. Above Secondhand Spring, our camp was in the cove below Cassidy Mine. I lead a 3 hour, 17 mile ride on Sunday with 11 riders. The Rendezvous was a success on all levels. But the weather did not slow anything down. For those who spend time out-of-doors, in all conditions, it was glorious, the clouds gave the sky definition, and cast shadows across the landscape highlighting things you had never seen before if if you looked at them a thousand times. Spring time in Nevada can and will be unsettled. Not to be so kind, it was the WORST! But that is ok. The dark skies, wind, and cloud bursts across the Black Rock Desert did not slow our ride nor any of the activities during the Black Rock RendezvousĬarlo Luri described the weather as “spicy”.














Calico mine ride