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MUSIC >>Chris Orr: Hi, welcome to Wild Nevada.

I'm Chris Orr.

>>Dave Santina: And, I'm Dave Santina and we're coming to you from Boulder City, which is a place we've visited before.

>>Chris: The last time we were here we went rafting down the Colorado River.

This time we're gonna see a few of the other things to do in the area including, weather permitting, some sky diving.

>>Dave: Yeah, we'll be seeing about that one.

(Chris laughs) >>Dave: Now, the last time we were here we didn't really look at Boulder City itself.

We're gonna rectify that mistake this time.

Tomorrow we're goin' on a historic walking tour of the town.

>>Chris: Today, though, we have some mountain biking and some hiking to do.

>>Dave: Let's get going.

>>Chris: We don't have far to go to reach our first adventure.

It's only a couple of miles from the Bureau of Reclamation building to Yucca Street where we turn right and drive just over a mile to the Bootleg Canyon parking area.

>>Jeff Spriggs: How are you guys?

>>Chris: We're good, how are you?

>>Jeff: Alright, great.

>>Dave: At Bootleg Trails Park we meet Jeff Spriggs, the owner of Bike Stuff in Boulder City.

Jeff is also an avid mountain biker.

>>Jeff: Ready to ride some great trails?

>>Dave: Yeah.

>>Chris: Mountain bikers have been coming to Bootleg Canyon for years, but the 36 miles of interconnecting trails here were improved and extended in the past decade by trail master, Brent Thompson.

>>Dave: Where'd it get that 'Bootleg Canyon' name?

>>Jeff: Uh, there's several different versions.

One of the versions is that this, um, Boulder City was a dry city because that's how they would build the dam, they didn't want alcohol around the workers and that bootleggers were up in here and, uh, that's where they were making the, uh, the whiskey and so forth, you know, on the side.

MUSIC >>Dave: Bootleg Canyon's downhill trails are gnarly and extreme with names like Armageddon, Dominatrix, the Reaper, and Elevator Shaft, these tracks would probably do us in.

Jeff takes pity on us and keeps us on the two cross-country paths, Boy Scout and Girl Scout.

Now, these we can handle.

>>Chris: Woo!

(Dave laughs) >>Jeff: Bootleg Canyon, it's now a city park.

And, so the, uh, the city of Boulder City is behind on making these trails and little camping areas we're working on right now and it should turn out very nice.

>>Dave: That was cool, he powered right through!

That was good.

We're, uh, we've, uh, we just touched on two different ones?

>>Jeff: Yup.

We, uh, we came down Boy Scout and then we picked up the end of Caldera.

Caldera's a good cross-country, it's a loop.

Uh, we're mostly what we're riding is from one place to another.

>>Dave: So, what, do you have recommended, you know, uh, trails for individuals of specific, you know, ability levels when they come in?

What do you tell people to do?

>>Jeff: Well, usually when they come in they're looking for a map or something, we try to find out what their abilities are, what trails they ride, what kind of bikes they're riding, that's important, too.

>>Dave: Yeah.

>>Jeff: And, then we try to make a recommendation of what's the best trail for them at that point.

>>Dave: Yeah this is one of those, uh, activities that most people see it in its most radical form on television where there's somebody jumping off a mountain top, but it's not all that and you can really enjoy it even if you've never done it before.

>>Jeff: Exactly.

>>Dave: There, there are trails for everybody.

There really are.

>>Jeff: Exactly right.

Exactly right.

>>Dave: Yeah.

>>Chris: And, the bike really does make a big difference, doesn't it?

>>Jeff: It does.

I'll tell my wife you like her bike.

(Chris laughs) >>Dave: Ahh.

>>Chris: It's a great bike.

That suspension makes it so easy to go over the rocks.

>>Jeff: It does.

It's, uh, it, it makes riding, it, it ups your ability in, in what you can ride.

And, uh, it's so much more comfortably and, again, if it's more comfortable, you're havin' fun, you're gonna ride more.

>>Dave: Yeah.

We get braver as we go.

That's the dangerous part.

(Chris laughs) >>Jeff: That's true.

>>Dave: Start feelin' good.

>>Chris: You ready to go jump off any mountains yet?

>>Dave: Uh, after you.

(Chris laughs) >>Dave: I'll follow you.

>>Chris: If I jump off the mountain, you know it was by accident.

>>Dave: Yeah.

>>Jeff: Well, let's take on some more.

This one will be Girl Scout.

>>Chris: Okay.

>>Jeff: You'll like this.

>>Dave: Are there cookies involved?

(Chris laughs) >>Jeff: No cookies.

>>Dave: Dang!

>>Chris: Just at the end.

>>Chris: Jeff's friend, Mark Erickson, shows us what it's like to ride the advanced trails.

MUSIC >>Dave: This trail demands our concentration with seemingly endless turns, sharp drops and steep hills.

Luckily for us, the bikes that Jeff provided handle the terrain extremely well.

>>Jeff: Let it roll right up here and it'll take you to the top.

MUSIC >>Dave: We're concentrating so hard on riding that we miss a lot of the beauty of the park.

This is only a small segment of the 4,000 acre park.

MUSIC >>Dave: We made it!

>>Jeff: Well, what do you guys think?

>>Chris: That's a great trail.

>>Dave: That was really fun.

>>Jeff: Was that a blast?

>>Chris: Yeah.

>>Dave: What's the final toll, Chris?

>>Chris: Um, I think there's a little bit of scratches, maybe a little blood on that leg.

(Dave laughs) >>Chris: But, other than that I think I'm okay.

(Laughs) >>Jeff: You did great.

That was a great ride.

>>Dave: All my injuries... >>Chris: I didn't even need my body armor at all.

>>Dave: ...my injuries were all internal.

(Chris laughs) >>Dave: I'll take care of that later.

>>Chris: Beautiful vistas, though.

It was a gorgeous view.

>>Dave: Yeah, thank you for showing us around.

>>Jeff: Oh, it was my pleasure.

I'm glad you guys came out.

>>Dave: What fun!

>>Jeff: Yeah, we're so lucky out here.

>>Dave: Well, I guess we oughta get moving on to our next adventure of the day.

(Chris laughs) >>Jeff: Okay.

>>Dave: It's a short drive to our next stop.

We just follow Highway 93 to Lakeshore Road, past the Alan Bible Visitors Center to the U.S.

Government Construction Railroad Trail.

Here we meet Julian Reinhardt, an authority on the trail.

>>Julian Reinhardt: I'm Julian Reinhardt.

>>Dave: Hi, Julian.

>>Chris: Nice to meet you, Julian.

>>Dave: Pleasure.

>>Dave: Nice to meet you.

Thanks for meeting us out here.

Really appreciate it.

>>Julian: Welcome to Lake Mead National Recreation Area.

>>Dave: Thank you.

Thank you.

>>Julian: We're gonna have a good, uh, afternoon for a hike.

And, as you can see, we're standing right here, in this area right in here.

>>Chris: Uh, huh.

>>Julian: And, here's a little blowup of it down in here.

>>Dave: Okay.

>>Julian: But, uh, essentially this is a spur of the 30 mile trail segment, uh, in the Boulder City - Henderson area.

And, this afternoon we're gonna be taking a hike that's just about, uh, 3 miles in length from, uh, the gate down the trail here.

>>Dave: Mm, hmm.

>>Julian: All the way down to the fifth tunnel on the historic railroad grade.

>>Dave: So, we're following where the railroad used to go.

>>Julian: Right, this is the original United States Construction Railroad that built Hoover Dam.

>>Dave: Wow.

>>Chris: Well, let's go take a look at it.

>>Julian: Alright.

Fine.

This gate which we are approaching here, uh, has a little history to it.

This is the actual start of the, uh, historic, uh, railroad trail.

But, this gate here, and you'll notice it's pretty substantial, was one of several used down at Hoover Dam, uh, in the, during the first, uh, Second World War, uh, when they had limited traffic going across the dam in 1941 through 1945, and this is one of the several gates that they had down there to stop traffic.

They would put them across in convoys, roll up the car windows and go across in a military convoy.

>>Chris: Now, the trail itself is actually in some ways recycled, isn't it?

>>Julian: That's right.

Uh, it was used initially as was part of the United States Construction Railroad carrying the materials down to Hoover Dam for its construction in 1931 to 1935, and the trail was taken out of use in 1961, dismantled in 1962, they sold the rails for scrap and also some of the ties, and from that time on it's been a hiking, uh, trail in this area.

>>Chris: Although the trail is flat and easy to walk, keep in mind that it is over 5 miles round trip, so you'll want to bring good walking shoes when you come here.

>>Dave: The name, uh, United States Construction Railroad seems a little unwieldy.

Did they have anything else that they... >>Julian: Oh, yeah, the, the workers and the locals had a much shorter name, the BC&B, and that stood for the Boulder City & Back.

(Chris laughs) >>Julian: The, uh, trains would come down with the goods and generally, the would come back empty.

Only two or three cars at a time.

But, there was one exception because down here... >>Chris: Oh, wow.

>>Julian: ...you'll see these large concrete masses, these were plugs that were brought from the power plant at Hoover Dam and as they installed a new generator, they only started with about three generators initially and kept adding until they got the seventeen generators in 1961.

>>Chris: There are some very cool trail features ahead of us here... >>Dave: Yes.

>>Chris: ...I see.

>>Dave: This is not normal trail feature, is it?

>>Julian: Now, these are the, the tunnels.

We have five of 'em on this reach of trail and these tunnels are about 18 feet wide and 26 feet high.

They had to put an extra foot in there because they found out that when they brought the railroad bed in, the ties and the rails they lost a foot and they had to 26 feet.

>>Dave: Hmm.

I wonder if this is the only trail around where you actually get to walk through a railroad tunnel.

(Chris laughs) >>Dave: I'm just realizing while I look at it, I, I, this is something that I've never done.

You don't get to do this, generally speaking.

(Chris laughs) >>Julian: Few and far between.

>>Dave: Yeah.

They don't like you walking on the tracks, so this is a pretty rare opportunity.

>>Julian: Now, if you'll look up on the roof of the tunnel you'll see kind of a sooty... >>Dave: Yes.

>>Julian: ...coating?

That's the, uh, soots from the, uh, the steam engines that came through here.

They had about, uh, about four steam engines on this run at one time, they had 24 hours a day.

If you see anything up there that has a triangular shape to it, it's probably a bat.

>>Chris: Oh, you guys have bats up in the tunnels?

>>Dave: You get lotsa bats?

>>Julian: There a few.

There are a few.

Well, this is the fifth and the, the last tunnel on the trail and it's a little bit different than the others in that it has a bend in it.

You'll notice that you don't clearly see the end of the tunnel.

>>Dave: Oh, yeah, it's the first one that you don't see straight through.

>>Julian: Yeah, that, that's right.

Now one thing that's interesting here, this was, uh, they had a fire in this tunnel in 1978 and they had to close it off.

This, this face was completely closed off and, uh, covered with shotcrete and it remained closed until 2001, and the Park Service, working with the Bureau of Reclamation decided that they would open the tunnel back up.

And, we hope to have the connecting link in there, about a two mile section, uh, completed by the Federal Highway Administration, uh, sometime, uh, very soon after that.

>>Dave: So, you could walk all the way from Boulder City... >>Julian: That's correct.

>>Dave: ...down to the dam.

>>Julian: Yeah.

And, it's just is an example of, of the communities, the agencies in the community all working together.

Uh, this spur in here is just one more example... >>Dave: Wow.

BC&B.

>>Julian: ...of their working together.

>>Dave: The BC&B is back.

(Chris laughs) >>Julian: Boulder City & Back.

>>Dave: But, it's on foot.

>>Dave: Good morning!

Good morning to you, as well.

>>Chris: Good morning.

>>Dave: We are standing in front of the Boulder Dam Hotel.

Now, there's a museum in here as well and that's because this is one of the most historic cities in all of Nevada, there's fantastic stuff to learn here.

And, we will learn some of it later today.

>>Chris: But, first we're gonna get some of the best views of town because we're goin' sky diving.

>>Chris: Once again, we don't have far to go to find our destination.

From Highway 95 we take Buchanan Road south and soon find ourselves at the Boulder City Airport and the facilities of Sky Dive Las Vegas.

>>Television: The first thing we will need is your accurate weight.

>>Brad Wedge: My name's Brad, I'm one of the instructors here.

Belly out, tap on the shoulders.

>>Television: Don't be afraid, you won't get sucked out.

>>Brad: Once the parachute opens you just go ahead and relax.

Tap on the shoulders.

Excellent.

>>Chris: We're gonna go skydiving.

(Chuckles) >>Worker: Okay, you know in skydiving you run the risk of being hurt or killed.

>>Chris/ Dave: Yes.

>>Dave: Next, we need to suit up.

It's cold today, so we wear our regular clothes under the flight suit.

I think Chris looks kinda like an astronaut.

>>Dave: I think I'm goin' to the moon.

(Chuckles) >>Chris: I'm more than a little nervous about this.

In fact, I'm downright scared.

When they slip the harness on me it becomes very real.

I'm going to jump out of an airplane?!

Who's idea was this, anyway?

>>Brad: How ya doin', man?

>>Dave: I'm doin' great.

I don't, I don't wanna look like that guy.

>>Brad: Like that guy?

I don't wanna look like that, either.

>>Simon Wade: Crash Landing.

How's it goin'?

(Chris laughs) >>Chris: It's goin' okay.

>>Simon: Its getting real.

>>Chris: Oh, its getting very serious.

>>Simon: Ready?

MUSIC (Dave laughs) MUSIC >>Chris: As the plane takes off and we settle in for the short flight, I'm still trying to decide if I have enough nerve to do this.

But, Simon Wade, my jump master is such a pro that his quiet assurance and easy manner helps me keep the worst of the nerves at bay.

MUSIC >>Dave: As we climb to 15,000 feet my jump master, Brad Wedge talks to me about what will be happening when it's time to jump.

His confidence makes me feel more comfortable, but even so, this is the moment when I start to feel physically excited and nervous.

Although Sky Dive Las Vegas allows you to back out at any time, I still feel that, for me, there's no turning back now.

>>Dave: She's terrified that I'm never never coming back.

Jessica, hello!

I'm okay, love you and, uh, I'll see you when I get back.

>>Brad: Alright, are you ready to have some fun?

>>Dave: I'm ready to have some fun.

>>Brad: Alright, lets have some fun out there, man.

>>Dave: Alright.

MUSIC >>Chris: Simon has me open the jump door.

The sudden rush of wind whips at me and I find myself staring at the ground 15,000 feet below.

It finally hits me that I'm actually about to jump.

I want to say to Simon, c'mon and let's just get this over with.

But, before I can he pitches us out of the plane and into our free fall.

And, then the only thing I can think of is screaming.

(Chris screams) >>Dave: Now, it's my turn and I'm staring out the door and have completely forgotten everything about how I'm supposed to position myself, so Brad has to physically move me.

Sorry 'bout that, Brad.

>>Dave: How can I describe this feeling?

Well, at first it's just all wind and I instinctively close my eyes with the wind impact, but quickly open them again to see just an indescribable view.

MUSIC >>Simon: Yeah!

>>Chris: Whoo, hoo, hoo!

Whoa, ho, ho.

Oh, that was -- after the first couple seconds, that's a lot of fun.

>>Chris: After the initial shock and jerk of the parachute being released, we settle in for an amazing and enjoyable glide down to the ground.

Simon guides me in steering the chute and as we make easy turns in the sky I feel as though we're performing a sublime airborne dance.

MUSIC >>Dave: Brad, that's amazing!

>>Brad: What'd ya think of that?

>>Dave: That is awesome!

That is AWESOME!

>>Dave: Once Brad deploys our chute everything slows down gently and gets quiet.

We're able to speak to each other as we float down.

Brad shows me how to steer the chute a little bit, but I'm better off letting him decide where we're going.

>>Brad: Pull down on the right, er, on the left steering column.

Pull down really hard.

Pull down harder.

Use some muscle man.

>>Dave: Woo.

>>Dave: Woo ho ho!

>>Brad: Yeah!

MUSIC >>Dave: Wow.

>>Brad: Whatcha think of that?

>>Dave: Nothin' like it!

Nothin' like it, man.

>>Brad: Hey.

>>Dave: Thank you.

>>Brad: Good job, man.

>>Dave: Brad is the best!

MUSIC >>Chris: Whoo!

(Laughs) That was great!

>>Simon: Well done, very good, thanks for comin' in.

>>Chris: Thank you so much!

(Laughs) >>Simon: You're welcome.

>>Chris: This is, to put it simply, an unforgettable experience.

We can't thank Brad and Simon and everyone at Sky Dive Las Vegas enough.

We're back on the ground, but we'll be flying high all day.

>>Dave: Woo!

>>Brad: Alright, take that.

>>Dave: Yes, sir.

>>Brad: Go over and see your friend.

Good job.

>>Dave: Thanks.

MUSIC >>Chris: We just jumped out of an airplane.

>>Dave: I know.

(Chris laughs) >>Dave: I can't believe we did that.

>>Chris: And, we landed.

(Laughs) >>Dave: And, we're still here.

>>Chris: I'm like, my adrenalin is still up and I'm a little shaky.

>>Dave: Yeah, I know.

I know.

You did great, though.

(Chris laughs) >>Chris: I was so scared.

I'm sure you could tell, I was so scared.

(Laughs) >>Chris: From Sky Dive Las Vegas we backtrack up Buchanan Road and return to Highway 95.

A couple of miles to the east we arrive at the center of town and the Boulder Dam Hotel.

>>Dave: Here we meet Dennis McBride, a long-time Boulder City resident, historian and author who probably knows more about the history of Boulder City than anyone.

>>Dennis Mcbride: This is my haunt.

(Dave laughs) >>Dennis: This is the Boulder Dam Hotel.

MUSIC >>Dennis: You know, when the government started building Hoover Dam they knew that it was gonna be a huge tourist attraction and there were actually people coming into Boulder City to watch the dam being built as soon as they started, but there was no place nice for them to stay.

So, the government put out a special contract to build the Boulder Dam Hotel, opened in 1933 and from the day it opened all through the 1930's it was filled with celebrities, millionaires, movie stars who came up from California.

This is probably the most historically associated building in the city.

And, this was the great thing about the Boulder Dam Hotel, uh, each room had a private bath.

>>Dave: Wow.

>>Dennis: It was air-cooled, air-conditioned and it had radiant heat radiators, old steam radiators in every room.

>>Chris: That was very luxurious for that time period, wasn't it?

>>Dennis: For that time, for the '30's, Las Vegas had nothing like that, in fact.

This was the place to stay, the nicest place to stay between Salt Lake and Los Angeles.

>>Dave: Well, wasn't Boulder City at, at one point the biggest city in the state?

>>Dennis: It was at one point the largest city by population, yeah.

At the height of dam construction, say 1933 - 1934, there were over 7,000 people in Boulder City.

And, at the time, Las Vegas had 5,000, Reno had about that same number, too.

>>Dave: I love the theater.

It's got such a great old-style look to it.

>>Dennis: You know, this building has not been altered very much since it was opened in May of 1932, and it was actually one of the more important buildings in town because it was the only source of, of, um, entertainment for the workers.

They had, uh, 24-hour showings all year round because they had 3 shifts of men, of course, working down at the dam.

And, the men who worked graveyard, for instance, who had to try to sleep in the daytime when it was so hot, would come up to the Boulder Theater and sleep in there because it was the only air-cooled building... >>Dave: Ahh.

(Chris laughs) >>Dennis: ...in the city.

So... >>Chris: A good reason to go to the movies.

>>Dennis: ...the owner of the, the owner of the theater sort of reserved the back few rows for these men and they'd be full, snoring through the movies, sleeping.

(Chris and Dave laugh) >>Dave: And, there was, there was no gambling and still isn't here... >>Dennis: No, no.

>>Dave: ...which is the really distinguishing feature.

>>Dennis: Yeah, Boulder City, um, when the government owned it, essentially, banned liquor and gaming and prostitution which, of course, you could have right outside the city limits.

>>Dave: Right.

>>Chris: Now, why did they do that?

What was their reason?

>>Dennis: They wanted social control of Boulder City.

They had to make sure that that dam was going to be finished with as few deaths as possible and they didn't need a bunch of workers showing up with hangovers the next day and, you know, trying to set dynamite and pour concrete.

>>Dave: Right.

>>Dennis: So, they kept that control and actually liquor has only been legal in Boulder City since 1969.

>>Dave: Hmm.

>>Dennis: And, of course, gaming and prostitution still are banned.

>>Dave: Right.

>>Chris: Although many people know Boulder City as the gateway to Hoover Dam, they don't always understand how vital the city was to the dam's construction.

Las Vegas was the nearest town to the dam site and the combination of distance and the Las Vegas lifestyle were deterrents, so Boulder City was constructed by the federal government and the contractors.

>>Chris: Now, this looks like a very quaint little neighborhood.

>>Dennis: Yeah, this neighborhood, this whole part of Boulder City, all the streets named after the alphabet, Avenue B, C, D, F, G, H, that was the Six Companies part of town.

The Six Companies were the contractor who built the dam and all of these little houses that you see along this street and all of the other streets were the worker's cottages for the married workers who showed up with families.

They started building them, oh, in the Spring of 1931 and they had crews, dozens of crews working, two-man crews.

>>Chris: Uh, huh.

>>Dennis: And, they threw up one house and a half each day.

>>Chris: Wait, two men would build a house?

>>Dennis: Mm, hmm.

>>Chris: By themselves... >>Dennis: Mm, hmm.

>>Chris: ...in a day and a half?

>>Dennis: Yes.

And, then the next day they'd come back and build the missing half of one house and a whole 'nuther house.

(Chris laughs) >>Dennis: And, they'd go on like that all the way down the street as they, as they worked.

>>Dave: They were all identical?

>>Dennis: They were all identical.

In fact, there are wonderful stories from a lot of the workers before the streets were paved, before the sidewalks, before the trees and the grass, the houses all looked exactly the same.

And, workers who would come home off shift at night would often get lost and walk into the front door of the wrong house.

(Chris laughs) >>Chris: Get a little disoriented.

>>Dennis: Yeah, a little disoriented.

>>Chris: Dennis, we've only traveled a couple of blocks from where we were and the houses are so different.

Why are the neighborhoods so... >>Dennis: I know, this is the... >>Chris: ...divergent?

>>Dennis: ...it's such an interesting, uh, when the government built Boulder City they actually built it in two parts.

The subcontractors, the contractors built the Six Companies parts, the little cottages, down on the flats, they called them, because we're now up on the brow of the hill, Granite Hill, and everything on the flats that the Six Companies built was meant to be torn down when the dam was finished and returned to desert.

And, where we're walking now is the government part of town, the Bureau of Reclamation built these houses for their employees and it was meant that this would stay after the dam was finished and these neighborhoods would be permanent for a small force just to run the dam.

And, the houses up here, of course, were built far more substantially.

They were built out of brick in this beautiful architecture, various architecture from house to house.

>>Chris: Mm, hmm.

>>Dennis: And, the government also took care of all the landscaping.

>>Chris: We've just scratched the surface.

There's a lot more to know about Boulder City and you can arrange for a walking tour with the Boulder City Museum.

We thank Dennis and move on to our final stop.

>>Dave: All right, our final activity on this trip.

>>Chris: We are going geo-caching here in Boulder City.

We're using our GPS's to find a specific location where there's a little hidden tin.

>>Dave: Yeah.

>>Chris: And, uh, once we find it we get to leave a memento of... >>Dave: And take one.

>>Chris: ...of being able to find it.

>>Dave: Yeah.

>>Chris: Okay, mine's pointing me over here.

>>Dave: Yeah.

>>Chris: Yeah.

>>Dave: The GPS's are not exactly the same.

They kind of give us a general directions.

>>Chris: So, right here.

It's giving me 4 feet here.

>>Dave: This look likes a good place to hide somethin', but... >>Dave: Oh, hey!

Hey!

>>Chris: Did you find it?

I've got the logbook signed and so now we just take something and leave something.

>>Dave: Yeah, what are you gonna take?

>>Chris: I'm going to actually take pumpkin seeds and grow them next year.

>>Dave: Makes sense.

Uh, I think the two of us will count as one... >>Chris: Okay.

>>Dave: ...and I will not take anything out.

But, we have two things to put in.

>>Chris: I have money from Brazil.

>>Dave: Yeah, and I have money from Mali, this is called a duru duru.

So, we'll leave that in there.

>>Chris: Okay.

>>Dave: Seal it up.

>>Chris: Well, that's all we have time for on this Wild Nevada adventure, but we've had a lot of fun.

>>Dave: Oh, we have seen everything around, in and especially above... (Chris laughs) >>Dave: Boulder City.

This one we will never forget.

>>Chris: If you want more information about this trip or any of our trips, visit our website at knpb dot org.

While you're there, send us an e-mail and tell us about some of your journeys.

>>Dave: And, until our next Wild Nevada adventure, you get out there and enjoy this beautiful state, and the skies above it, for yourself.

(Chris laughs) MUSIC Major production funding for Wild Nevada is made possible by the Nevada Commission on Tourism, who encourages everyone to explore the Silver State's hidden treasures.