Driving By Nine-Mile Ranch

 Hope you all had a good weekend. So, my "Ghosts of the Past" series will continue and end in December. It was not just a October/Halloween series.

The following video is the prelude to where we just drive by "Nine-Mile Ranch". It is all driving and nothing is said:

Driving By Nine-Mile Ranch, NV (Youtube)

Taken from https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=191201: "The history of the Nine Mile Ranch has a long and interesting past, beginning with the Paiute Indians who inhabited this area long before John C. Fremont’s expedition into Nevada in 1843-1844. According to Fremont’s journal he camped in this area along a little creek now known as 'Rough Creek' in January 1844 on his way to California. Fremont’s camp was in the approximate location of the Nine Mile Ranch today. With the discovery of gold in Aurora in 1860, this area was destined to become a main route from Carson City to the booming mining camps of the Esmerelda Mining District, of which Aurora and later Bodie were featured destinations. Along this route stage stops were established for the convenience of travelers. Over the years, the Nine Mile has been known as Cobb’s Rancho, Nine Mile House, Nine Mile Station, Green’s Station, etc., but Nine Mile Ranch is what shows on most modern maps. Notable people in history are known to have visited the area, including John C. Fremont, Kit Carson, Mark Twain, Governor James Nye, and J. Ross Browne, to name a few." An article about this place:   https://mcindependentnews.com/2018/07/history-of-nine-mile-ranch-dates-back-to-the-1860s-2/

An Awesome View of Mono Lake Two

 Happy All-Saints' Day! I think it is amusing how our traditions have evolved and what people think of as Halloween and such. I have people I follow that are really into Halloween that will say stuff like, "Happy Halloween Eve" on Oct. 30th so now we have an "Eve" for an "Eve" day for today. What we know of as our modern Halloween really goes back to the early twentieth century...about a hundred years ago. I know you will have tons of people that will say stuff like it goes back to Samhain the Celtic pagan day, but no one knows really when that day was other than a guess that it was at the end of October. I am just saying that most of what people think of today as Halloween has a lot of mixed traditions in it. 

Anyways we are done until next year(?) with that, but my series "Ghosts of the Past" is still live as I will start my next project soon.

In the meantime, here is another look at Mono Lake:

It was kind of gloomy due to the clouds and rain coming down. I was once here taking pictures when I started the blog back in 2006. I will link that below. Those pictures were during really nice conditions, but I liked this because it worked as part of what I was trying to do as an October/Halloween type of video. Yeah, the above is in the new "Ghost Mine..." video. Let me take this time to link all three videos I did for this series:

This is the off-road drive that gets you up there:

Off-road Drive: "Ascending Log Cabin Mine Road" (Youtube)

This is the main video that is the most important of the bunch to watch. It is about twenty-three minutes long:

The Ghost Mine Above Lee Vining 2.0 (Youtube)

Finally, this is sort of a throwaway video, and not really needed. However, if you do want to see the drive back down the same road we came up on it is here. It is unlisted because I do not care about it too much. 

Off-road Drive: "Descending Log Cabin Mine Road"

This is the blog from 2006 that shows the same spot with nicer conditions:

The old blog: An Awesome View of Mono Lake