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PHOTOGRAPHY BY JIM K. DECKER
Kingston Summit: Across the Toiyabe Range
STORY BY A.D. HOPKINS
When you start on "America's Loneliest Highway" and try to get even farther from the crowd, you can probably succeed. On a trip across the Toiyabe Range in Central Nevada, we had a good back road to ourselves, despite the attractions of fine weather, fall color, and archery season in deer country. Our jaunt up Big Creek Canyon and over Kingston Summit was one leg of a three-day media familiarization tour organized by the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce and the Nevada Commission on Tourism.
The idea was to focus attention on scenic and recreational possibilities in a historic region dominated by mining and ranching. Volunteers from the Central Nevada 4-Wheelers led a caravan of writers and photographers, including photographer Jim Decker and me, over some trails that put "Nevada pinstripes" ‹ brush marks ‹ down both sides of Decker's lean Isuzu Trooper.
Because they operate in such rugged country, Central Nevada 4-Wheelers seem to favor ready-for-anything vehicles with beefed-up engines and suspension, festooned with heavy-duty jacks, shovels, and winches. The frame around one of their license plates says "Great Jeeps are built, not bought."
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