Hilton's Flying M Ranch, Expedition Nevada, Doug Berry

[@matt89447]

We will have to do that trip to Hawthorne soon. The Flying M Ranch was what it was called before the Hiltons bought it. They kept the name because Barrons wife's name started with M. I think Mary? Barron also donated the money to build the Catholic Church's community room in Yerington. A plaque on the wall there gives the information and maybe the date. Those orange balls are to show pilots where power wires are. Safety. My dad's mother's ( my Grammy) side are in the family tree of General Phil Sheridans. Interesting about cookies. Ill have to cook more bread ! Lol And thanks for the honorable mentions. Matt & Laura.

[@CalNeva]

@@matt89447 That is so interesting, all the background information, thank you. Definitely, we all need to bake more bread, er, I mean test more bread with the cookies. I will volunteer for that. Hope you two have many fun adventures with the new jeep; that sure is a sweet ride you have there. Till we cross paths next time ....🤠🚙🛻

[@CalNeva]

@GlorifiedG-z9c Interesting!

[@GlorifiedG-z9c]

@@CalNeva Now that I think about it more, I think she said he would just hang up until he got her on the line.

[@GlorifiedG-z9c]

comment and edit got lost, you saw it.

[@brakerbraker829]

What a varied and interesting route...Walker River country is a real gem. Not a tail-gate picnic but a front-gate one! Happy Holidays!

[@CalNeva]

@@brakerbraker829 I like that, "A front gate picnic!" Hilarious my friend. Yes, we love the Walker River Country. You too!

[@GlorifiedG-z9c]

@@CalNeva 70 miles on a gravel road is a long ways.. I've driven by that museum many times from Vegas way past that many times and always wanted to stop but was always in a hurry.

[@CalNeva]

@GlorifiedG-z9c True!

[@wheellifecycling]

You passed the pine grove ghost town 5 miles from 208 on the right. We had fun exploring that one. There is a cool cemetery there as well. We kayaked down the west walker getting there from minden side. Talk about a dangerous kayak adventure be prepared for t post in the middle of the river. The fishing was amazing on the west side. Good video

[@CalNeva]

@@wheellifecycling Hello my fellow adventurers! Thank you for the heads up about the post in the river. We have planned to go to Pine Grove for quite some time; so many places so little time! Have a great one! 👋🛶🚣

[@loulouh.5734]

The cemetery really is amazing in Pine Grove. Sadly though people have vandalized it compared to how it looked 30 yrs ago. It’s not from weather and elements. Also there is an area by the old mill where you climb up the ridge into the trees and you will find lots of whole and broken obsidian arrowheads.

[@CalNeva]

@loulouh.5734 How interesting!

[@rhondaz356]

This was such an interesting, amazing video. There were many animals out there. The envionment seemed so rugged, and desolate. You reminded us that it is Winter, Doug. I had heard about Hilton flying people to, and from his ranch. I didn't realize how remote it is/was! How I'd love to see those signatures of famous people who stayed at the ranch. I can understand why there are caretakers... The few homesteads out there absolutely interest me. How would those children_ 30 miles from *civilization, get to school, and back I wonder. WOW, this video really was enjoyable, and very informative. 🎉Thank you, Doug and Kellie for another, super video. BTW, I always look forward to your luncheons. This looked like another yummy one. 🏡🙏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@rhondaz356]

I am partied out between Christmas Eve and today. ***I can't wait to see this video. You know how much I love your videos. Noway do I want to rush through one... In the meantime, I wish you, and Kellie a blessed, beautiful, FANtastic Christmas Day, Doug. 🏠🙏🏻🎄❤️🎄💚

[@CalNeva]

@@rhondaz356 Thank you Rhonda, such a compliment from such a consistent fan! It ran a little long but I was sure to put as many animals in the video for you that would let me film them! 🎥🐄🐂🐦‍⬛🛸📽️

[@rhondaz356]

@CalNeva Awww, I know I'll LOVE it, Doug. Thank you.👏🏻🏡🙏🏻🎄🤗🎊

[@mychannel.230]

What a varied and interesting route...Walker River country is a real gem. Not a tail-gate picnic but a front-gate one! Happy Holidays! I am partied out between Christmas Eve and today. ***I can't wait to see this video. You know how much I love your videos. Noway do I want to rush through one... In the meantime, I wish you, and Kellie a blessed, beautiful, FANtastic Christmas Day, Doug. 🏠🙏🏻🎄❤🎄💚

[@bansheeseat]

The wife and I watched this and decided to jump in the bronco and check it out. Also sense we were in the area went to Pine grove also. We enjoy your video's!

[@CalNeva]

@@bansheeseat Thank you, I hope you both had a great trip! 🇺🇸🤠🚙

[@nationalparksprincess3216]

Interesting place out there! Wishing you all a Merry Christmas 🤶 🎄 🎅

[@CalNeva]

@@nationalparksprincess3216 Thank you! I am wishing for you and your family a super duper New Year with plenty of new adventures around the far reaches of our beautiful country! 🇺🇸🚐🛸📸🚀📽️🛸📸🎥

[@thelookingway5390]

Really enjoyed watching your peaceful, interesting video this christmas morning. I know some of the big ranchers and their ranch hands on the other side of the Sweetwater Mountains to the west. Merry Christmas to the both of you!

[@CalNeva]

@@thelookingway5390 Glad you enjoyed it! We like that area too. Thank you, and enjoy your 2025, it should be a good one!

[@tomesguerra5495]

Have a happy holiday, Doug and Kellie! Keep up the great job with your vlogs!👍👌👏✌️🇺🇸🎄

[@CalNeva]

@@tomesguerra5495 You too, thank you Tom! 🤠

[@hestheMaster]

You never cease to amaze with something different in Nevada. Thanks for the extra special trip around the Wassuk mountain range. Interesting to see the Flying M Ranch. The original owner was Stanfield Murphy hence the letter M. Barron Hilton didn't change it in honor to his late wife Marilyn. Merry Christmas to you Doug and Kellie too!

[@CalNeva]

@@hestheMaster Hi Steve! We just love that area and enjoyed sharing it with you. Thank you, enjoy the Holidays and see you next year!

[@steveblankenship5474]

Very interesting and awesome video. Where Steve Fossett was found I did go hiking in that same area 20 years earlier coming out of the Ansel Adams Wilderness. It is indeed very rugged there and I remember having the sensation of being watched while I was there, later I came across someone with a dog that was totally spooked. I have absolutely no idea what led up to that but I was sure glad to get out. It was another hiker who found Fossett’s driver’s license and a couple of hundred dollar bills then bits and pieces of wreckage.

[@CalNeva]

@@steveblankenship5474 Wow Steve, that is super interesting. Usually when the creep meter pegs out, it's time to leave. The only time wildlife has spooked me it was winter wolves following me in a dark Montana forest; all other times it's been a creepy or weird person (usually in California or Oregon). I love that Ansel Adams wilderness. Thank you for sharing that story.

[@steveblankenship5474]

@ only time the creep meter went up on me was there and another time not far away from this place 10 years beforehand and I’ve been all over. Yes Ansel Adams is wonderful

[@CalNeva]

@steveblankenship5474 Do you think there might be evidence of a large primate in the area or perhaps a trailside killer scenario? My conscience is always spot on if there is something. Heard chatter about some type of unidentified large predator in that and Yosemite area. Perhaps it is being covered up to not scare the public?

[@steveblankenship5474]

@ my other “alarm” moment was in the 70’s when I was just out of high school and me and my friend Alex went camping. We drove just outside Mammoth Mountain and camped on the side of a dirt road. A ranger came by and warned us that a previous camper left from a disturbance in the night- we should have left but didn’t. That night on my side of the tent there was like a large hand moving across the tent wall slowly. We are in the middle of nowhere and there should not be anyone for miles. I woke up my friend then we heard nothing and he went back to sleep. About an hour later same thing just like a very large hand was moving across the tent wall. I then started a fire and placed it outside and whatever it left. In the morning I pulled up that tent and drove straight home only stopping for the bathroom and gas. There is something in that area and I would not go back there again ESPECIALLY alone and I’ve hiked solo in Alaska before. Perhaps this was within 20 miles where Fossett was found.

[@tamiamidrmn]

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

[@CalNeva]

@@tamiamidrmn Hi Chris, glad to see you; thank you, you too! 🤠🇺🇸👋

[@HebrewLiteracy]

You always have great audio; I like hearing the rocks under your feet as you walk. Can you share what equipment you are using? Love the skyline around 0:54:00

[@CalNeva]

@@HebrewLiteracy Sure, since I am out in the field I learned a cell phone is the easiest compact camera to bring and this Pixel 7 has a fantastic camera. Usually the audio is a limiting factor with the wind because you can't get any cord that is compatible with any external mike with a wind sock. It's just a bare bones cell phone! It's like using a fiddle to play in the Salzburg symphony; us poor country people just feel fortunate to make do! 💸👍

[@clarissahopkins1148]

Greetings from Topaz Ranch Estates. This brings back great memories. Three years ago this month, I decided to go on a solo camping trip off this dirt road. I think I made camp below Big Indian Mountain. So quiet and peaceful with interesting geology. Ended up in Bridgeport and then on to Conway summit. My little 4x4 Ford Ranger does well in this terrain. Sure hope this area never gets developed. On a side note, I had the chance to visit Galena, IL in 2021 and tour President Grant's home. We may take a drive out to Hawthorne this weekend. Does Kelli work on Saturdays at the museum? Thank you.

[@CalNeva]

@@clarissahopkins1148 Hi Clarissa, thank you for sharing the story of your adventure! The little Rangers are great little rigs, especially for the money; they just don't make them like that anymore. Neither Kellie nor I work on the weekends. She is usually at the museum M-Thursday, but has other business to take care of this week (She will be at the museum later next week, however it is open). Hope you guys have a great weekend adventure; Rangers rock! 👋🛻🌅

[@harryraymore5813]

Hey Doug, this is a VERY interesting video of ome of the several places owned by VIPs in Nevada . (a little lady tipped me off to this one today when I called to wish you both a GREAT CHIRSTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR ) This is much like the Bing Crosby Ranch north of Elko, NV which I would have liked to have been able to get when ity went on the market about 12 years ago. Yopu bet !!! Harry in AK

[@CalNeva]

@@harryraymore5813 Hi Harry! Glad we were able to film it for you, we had a great driver on this trip (I would have gotten stuck). She probably honed her skills in Colorado and Anchorage...🚙 I hope you have a great New Year too my friend! 🤠🇺🇸👋

[@Brother_D_therail]

Hi Brother Doug and Kellie 👋. I'm 2 days late to the party 😢. Hope you and Kellie saved me a cookie 🍪. But, it was definitely worth waiting for, I've always wanted to see what was on the west side of Mt.Grant! Never got to travel in that area, very interesting for sure. I noticed lots of mailboxes 📬 along the trail, can you imagine being the mailman on that route? It would be great until the storms come, then probably not so much fun ! But this video sure was fun! 😊 🇺🇸

[@CalNeva]

@@Brother_D_therail Hi Brother D! I bet you have been busy. Yes many mailboxes on the gravel. My old rural delivery carrier Rusty farms full time and delivers mail on the gravel traveling over 100 miles each time he does his route (he is still delivering mail, packages, baby chicks, honey bee packages, etc I think going on 30 years). Sometimes other farmers would pull him out of snowdrifts on the gravel road. He goes through a lot and of cars and plenty of tires (the preferred vehicle are the old Jeep suburbans for those routes). He was awesome, would call you if you had a package, and you could call him with any special instructions and was super dependable. 🚗

[@TimT-um6rt]

I wish the best for the two of you continuing your tours in '25! Thanks for all Your shared videos this year! I remember when test pilot Fosset disappeared! Once that reward was offered,it seemed every one and his brother was looking for him! Pilots were even flying between Columbus and Candalaria looking for a crash! Had a chance to marry into a Nev. ranch family Once.At the time I didnt think that lifestyle was a good fit! Besides,she wasnt much to look at! Got to be the mildest Dec. Ive seen!

[@CalNeva]

@@TimT-um6rt That's interesting Tim, all those people scrambling to look for him. Yes, very mild winter. Thanks, we will keep on keeping on, 25 should be a good one.

[@CharlieA-q4y]

So you went to school at Butte College in Oroville. (Where quarterback Aaron Rodgers was discovered) I graduated from CSU-Chico. My brother's live in Oroville and Chico. I enjoyed your video of the Flying M Ranch and the surrounding area. Merry Christmas Doug and Kellie.

[@CalNeva]

@@CharlieA-q4y Hi Charlie, thank you from both of us. Yes, I started out at Butte when I lived in Corning, I finished my degree at UM Western in Dillon, MT and UM in Missoula, MT (my favorite school was Butte). So sad the Bidwell Mansion burned down.

[@GlorifiedG-z9c]

@@CalNeva Dillon is considered nowhere but I always liked that area, by buddy lives in Billings, so from Vegas to there I went through several times via I-15.

[@CharlieA-q4y]

@@CalNeva Very sad that the Bidwell Mansion burned down. I talked about it on my Facebook. A blind woman was the first person who took me on a tour of it.

[@CalNeva]

@CharlieA-q4y Yes, it was so much history and a keystone landmark for Chico. Gosh dern it! It added so much unique character; we will all miss it. I got into the honors Program at Butte College, and the citizens in the area gave me $ 1,500 as a veteran for my textbooks which I could not afford at the time. I will never forget that gesture. 👍🇺🇸

[@caseyhansen4567]

Merry Christmas my Nevada family.(Doug and Kellie)

[@CalNeva]

@@caseyhansen4567 Thank you my Super California Family (Rick and Casey, and Sam).

[@MrTommy001]

The gravel road leading to the Walker River Rec Area is HORRIBLE!

[@CalNeva]

@@MrTommy001 I bet, and the road will probably be even worse in a few weeks. 🤠👋

[@davec9244]

Paris made a tape that made its way to the internet. I know she didn't fly she had a landing strip. Thank you for the trip nicely done. thank you

[@CalNeva]

@@davec9244 Our pleasure Dave!

[@1d1ane]

- also Galen Rowell (and wife) photographer, (Mountain Light, Bishop/ Emeryville) pilot, lost in Sierra.

[@1d1ane]

- interesting family history / photographs there too, Doug.

[@CalNeva]

@@1d1ane I was embarrassed to show them Steve, but I did it to share the history and how it is so cool I live under 10 miles from My. Grant ( How weird; right?...that and the old ship's parts being just down the street!).

[@CalNeva]

@@1d1ane No! I never knew that Nevada Triangle claimed so many! Unreal.

[@steveblankenship5474]

They are reporting a missing plane now around Tonopah missing since 1/5

[@CalNeva]

@@steveblankenship5474 Interesting Steve, I often forget that air travel is still fraught with dangers. I found it interesting that there was some type of orb that was estimated at over mach speed captured on a Fox News video feed over the Pacific Palisades fire. It was not fixed wing nor a drone, so what kind of new aviation technology was it? Hmm, we will have to wait and see as these are being reported in many various places. 🧐🤔