Unit 078 covers the southern Goshute Mountains and the country between Goshute Valley and the Utah border. Elevations run from about 5,500 feet in the basins to over 9,000 feet on the higher peaks. The country is classic Great Basin—sage on the basin floors, pinon-juniper on the benches, mahogany and aspen on the cooler upper slopes, and limber pine on the highest north faces. Water is scarce; what's there is tied to a few springs and the very upper reaches of intermittent drainages. Mostly BLM with small Humboldt-Toiyabe NF parcels on the high country and private ranches on the springs. US 93 and US 93 Alt are the paved access; from there gravel and two-track. Wendover is forty-five minutes east and that's where you fuel up. Wells is the alternate. Cell service is gone. Mule deer in the mahogany-aspen, pronghorn on the open sage, with a few transplanted elk establishing. The unit is empty in the truest sense—you're alone out here, and that's the point. The clay roads turn lethal when wet; bring chains or be prepared to wait the storm out.