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<\/p>\nThe road that cuts across the bluff at top of my picture is Rt 163 on the Google map. But, this, as with all of these pictures, is oriented with South on top, so it's rotated 180 deg from a typical map.<\/p>\n
And, moving into Nevada, here's the Tonopah Test Range<\/a> portion of Nellis Air Force Base: If I had known, at the time, what I was looking at, I'd have lifted the lens up a little bit more, and maybe got a shot of Groom Lake, aka Area 51<\/a>. It lies about 50mi above and to the left of the small lake at the top-left in my shot. No, I probably wouldn't have caught anything interesting, but hey, what can I say... I was a big fan of the X-Files. Here's that section on Google<\/a>. Groom Lake<\/a> is the pentagonal one to the SE, with a little road running through the SW side of it, in the Google map. If you zoom in on Rt 375, to the east, you'll see that it's named \"The Extraterrestrial Highway\".<\/p>\n And here's the little town of Silver Peak<\/a>, NV (pop. 200): I wasn't sure what this was from the sky; but it turns out that it's a lithium mine.<\/p>\n Moving westward a bit farther, we get to the high peaks of Yosemite:
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