Unit 034 covers the Pine Forest Range and the country east of the Black Rock Desert toward the Quinn River drainage. The Pine Forest is one of those Great Basin sky islands that catches you off guard—Duffer Peak hits 9,400 feet and the upper basins hold actual lakes, ringed by limber pine and aspen. Below the timber it's sage and bitterbrush down to the playa fringe at about 4,500 feet. Onion Valley Reservoir and Blue Lakes are the named water; the rest of the country is dry except for a few seeps. The east face is gentler than the west—the west drops fast into the desert. BLM dominates with a small Humboldt-Toiyabe NF inholding on the high country and private ranches on the springs. Highway 140 from Denio is the only paved approach; the road in from Leonard Creek crosses a half-dozen washes that get sketchy after rain. Denio is a tiny outpost with one pump and a bar. Winnemucca, ninety minutes south, is where you actually load up. Cell service is gone the moment you leave 140. Mule deer in the timber pockets and pronghorn on the open sage; the bucks here can be quality because nobody's driving past them. The country is genuinely lonely—plan your own self-rescue.