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02-21-2018, 07:09 PM #26Registered User
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Lee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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02-21-2018, 07:20 PM #27Hucked to flat once
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Grew up just west of triangle number 1 and still spend a lot of time there. I could see easily retiring in the vicinity someday.
I've always liked this heat map of McDonalds in the US.
I try to spend a week each per year in the black zone in the middle of Idaho and then southwest Idaho/northern NV. It's good for perspective.
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02-21-2018, 07:37 PM #28
knew all of that. We bicycled through Smithers, Kitwanga, etc. and up the Cassiar Hwy on a bicycle trip from Missoula MT to Anchorage AK in 1981. We didn't take the side trip to Cassiar, which was still producing asbestos. Mighty Moe's place was a highlight.
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02-21-2018, 07:39 PM #29glocal
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02-21-2018, 07:40 PM #30
The road halfway between Austin NV and Battle Mountain NV classifies as lower 48 middle of nowhere, but it's not a small town thus doesn't qualify
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02-21-2018, 07:45 PM #31
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02-21-2018, 07:53 PM #32
I've posted this before, but http://www.moosevalleyoutfitters.com...ge/7918206.htm live about far as you can from anywhere below 60N in western Canada. Came into the Ft St James forestry office and asked to be directed to a place as far from every proper highway as was possible to establish a homestead. This is almost in the middle of the Alcan/Cassiar Hwy loop in north central BC. Amazing country, even if the Kemess mine did put in a big-ass power line through their homestead.
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02-21-2018, 07:59 PM #33
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02-21-2018, 08:03 PM #34
I'll see your Ely and raise you Tonopah
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02-21-2018, 08:20 PM #35
Denio NV belongs in this discussion.
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02-21-2018, 08:31 PM #36Is it radix panax notoginseng? - splat
This is like hanging yourself but the rope breaks. - DTM
Dude Listen to mtm. He's a marriage counselor at burning man. - subtle plague
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02-21-2018, 08:34 PM #37
Hah! On our XC trip we stopped in the middle of 50 outside of Ely to rest and pose for a picture. We went there just to be there.
A few people feel the rain. Most people just get wet.
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02-21-2018, 08:38 PM #38
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02-22-2018, 06:46 AM #39
Only been once, but I liked Ely. Hell the entire Hwy 50 through Nevada was pretty fucking nice.
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02-22-2018, 07:28 AM #40
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02-22-2018, 08:24 AM #41
I worked in Jade City for a summer, and it shocked me how many people on bicycles would ride past. That's a long way to and from anywhere up there. By comparison, nothing in the lower 48 is even close to remote.
The good thing about Battle Mountain is that it is in the middle of everywhere. You can work at the mines that are out of Elko or Winnemucca, and while you might be a bit farther than people who live in one of those towns, you have access to both. I had dinner last night with two engineers who had both moved twice for work, one started in Winnemucca, moved to Elko, and is now back in Winnemucca. The other did the exact opposite. Both over about a 10 yr period.
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02-22-2018, 08:37 AM #42Registered User
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"Judge me by the enemies I have made." -FDR
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02-22-2018, 08:48 AM #43Registered User
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02-22-2018, 09:58 AM #44yelgatgab
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We slid off the interstate a couple hundred yards from the exit to Colby, KS years ago. We decided to get off the interstate and spend the night. We went to a couple bars, ended up partying with some local girls, and generally had a good time. I can't imagine living there, though.
Remind me. We'll send him a red cap and a Speedo.
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02-22-2018, 10:09 AM #45
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02-22-2018, 10:19 AM #47Registered User
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Staying near Tatla Lake, BC for a couple nights on some farm seemed wayyyyy out there for me. 3 hours driving in either direction to get cell service, and that was just a couple years ago. I've been to more remote places in BC, but nothing felt as remote as that place.
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02-22-2018, 10:23 AM #48Registered User
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BC is cut in half by hy 16 and the people you meet tend to be from along the hywy so very east-west centric, we say the narth but really its just the start of the north cuz the whole top half of BC has nothing/nobody and there are really only 2 hyways north either the AK highway or this one 37
If you are riding the length of north and south America which is a thing 37 is the hyway you take, there is FB group that do this and my ski bud was hosting people on their way down thru " warm showers " Right now buddy is within about 2000km of the end of the road at the tip of south america & I havent seen him in almost 3 yearsLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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02-22-2018, 10:28 AM #49
Cool guy. Somewhere I have a pic of him air strumming a gold mining shovel. He was very welcoming. We hung out in his living quarters while he talked our ears off. I enjoyed paging through his many copies of Soldier of Fortune magazine. He had a firewood-powered shower.
Based on our best info, in 1981, we were one of 3 or 4 parties who bicycled from the lower 48 to AK that year.
I've bicycled across NV twice on trans USA trips. Basin and range bicycle touring is my favorite, much better than slogging up the Cassiar and AK Hwy. And it was fun stopping at a whorehouse a couple times to fill our water bottles.
Another nomination for lower 48 small town in the middle of nowhere: Gerlach NV
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02-22-2018, 10:43 AM #50Registered User
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Biking in south of france a Dutch biker came over to my camp site and said " I see your canadian flags and I want to ask about riding along the coast from vancover to alaska ? To which i pointed out there is no road along the coast there is only a couple of interiour hways and you could ride for days without hitting a town cuz there is nothing and nobody
oh!? maybe I should ride south then
my buddy has been putting up FB picts of Argentina and that looks seriuosly in the middle of nowhereLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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