We went on a really awesome ride on Nevada's Steam shovel trail from the Buena Vista Mine to the Abandoned "Steam Shovel", really a Speeder Deisel powered unit, this last weekend.. the Ride was truly awesome with scenic trail ride down a canyon from 7300 feet down to 4700 feet in about two miles ... off the side of the trail there was about a 2500 foot drop, and the trail was loose rocks....scary but way cool.....

It was sort of one of those trips from hell though.....the guys next door were out on their Rhino at midnight and when the thing rolled over the passenger stuck his leg out and got an open wound compund fracture of the leg.....and they had to Air Medivac him out at three in the morning.....We were sleeping and were awoken by by two helicopters trying to find this remote camp site 40 miles off the hiway.....when I woke up I was thinking ..."crap! there going to toss us out of here...." then after I woke up all the way ...oh yeah...medivac...duhhh.....

And then on the road back to the Bay Area, there was a fifty mph headwind/duststorm from Lovelock to Reno in 2nd gear at 50 mph.....ugg!, then going over the hwy 80 summit , we were about the last rig to get thru before they shut it down for chain control, then a blinding deluge rain storm back thru Sacramento.......tough trip home.....

But, great ride, no mechanical failures, no injuries,(to our party) and one of the guys with us got hooked up with a 2004 green V-Force with dual exhaust and suspension for $5000.....good deal......