The next day we toured Eureka, another near-ghost town still-county seat. A few nice shops and 5 cemeteries (we only visited 4). If you're near Eureka and have the time, the excellent Shipley Hot Spring is located in the Diamond Valley north of town. Go north on Hiway 278 about 5 miles north of Garden Pass. Turn east and drive about 6 miles past the Bailey ranch and then north about 2 miles toward the Sadler Ranch. The large hot pool is east of the dirt road. A good spot to camp! From Eureka we drove west on U.S. 50 and turned south-west on the good graded road located about 4 miles east of the Eureka-Lander County line. This road goes over Bottle Summit and down to the prominent Monitor Ranch. We drove 10 miles south of the ranch (and about 2-1/2 miles south of the road going east to the site of Potts) on the Monitor Valley road, which ultimately leads past the turnoff for Jefferson and further to the turnoff for Belmont. At the above point (10 mi south of the Monitor R.) turn east about 1-1/2 miles, go through a range gate and you have arrived at Diana's Punch Bowl, a large hot spring located at the top of a 100 ft high hill. There is a 40 ft drop from the edge of the crater to the reported 140 degree water and it would take a rope to get down. There is a nice drainage from the south side of the hill and the water cools slowly as it flows north. Thanks to Desert Rat, Wes Shelberg, for his info and map. Delightful bathing and excellent camping in the area. But we had more to see, so we turned north again to the Monitor Ranch, the NW through the Toquima Range, stopping at Toquima Picnic Area where we took the trail leading to some of the finest pictographs in Northern Nevada. Then on Spencer Hot Spring for another dip, to Austin (The town that died laughing) for dinner, then south on State 28, past the Reese River Ranger Station and up to Columbine Campground. The next day we all climbed Arc Dome by the usual route on the jeep trail and returned to our cars cross country north along the crest of the range past Stewart Creek Cirque (where Norm Rohn and I once saw a mountain lion), down to Stewart Pass and then completed the loop to our cars by hiking down the Stewart Creek Trail through many stands of aspen marked with erotic carvings done by Basque sheepherders. This makes a good loop day hike. This was my 6th climb of Arc Dome. Still, the best day hike to Arc Dome is from the east, up Twin River near the town of Carver. After cleaning up, we drove west through lone, visited the Icthyosaur Museum and site and camped at the very fine State Park there (showers available). This was the favorite camp of many. The next morning we spent an hour touring the restored mining camp of Berlin where Georgina and John left us. We went to Gabbs for breakfast at the only coffee shop in town. This is run by Charlie, the man who claims to have picked up a hitch hiking Howard Hughes after Howard's car broke down in the Nevada desert. He alleges that Howard left him a large sum of money in a never-found will. Carol and Gary, Frank and Ruth left us after breakfast and then it was down to Tonopah, a stop in Goldfield to see the nearly restored Hotel and the Mozart Bar and

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