Badger and Tikaboo Mountains

Photos from H.W. Stockman & Nick N.
May 29, 2004

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Heading up Badger.

 

 

 

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View N to NE from Badger. Note the unmanned relay post at right. At left in the distance is Mount Irish. There is a register on top, with very few names.

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SE from Badger. Most of the terrain in the valley is covered with rhyolite flows; Badger itself is limestone.

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This strange benchmark was near the military installation.

 

 

 

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Top of Tikaboo.

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View N from Tikaboo. The top of the mountain is sandstone, and is covered with junk from all the UFO fans who go up there to look W at Area 51.

 

 

 

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Looking SW from Tikaboo.

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View SW and down.

 

 

 

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N from Tikaboo; again, Mt Irish is in the distance.

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Larkspurs.

 

 

 

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On the drive out, we stopped at this pot-hole-filled rhyolite. Native Americans stopped here to make arrows, leaving non-native flints and agates.

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A rhyolite mushroom rock.