Unit 105 covers the Pancake Range and surrounding country in central-eastern Nevada, smack between Ely and Tonopah on US 6—the loneliest stretch of the loneliest highway in the lower 48. Elevations run from about 5,000 feet on the Railroad Valley and Little Smoky Valley floors to 9,240 feet on Pancake Summit. The Pancakes are a low, broad, rolling range—not the dramatic vertical of the Schells or Rubies, but big country with long sage benches, juniper-mahogany breaks, and aspen pockets tucked into the wetter canyon heads. The Lunar Crater volcanic field on the southern margin is a blackened expanse of cinder cones and basalt flow that looks exactly like it sounds. Sand Spring and a few scattered stock tanks are the only reliable water; everything else dries up by late summer. Almost entirely BLM with no real towns inside the unit. US 6 frames the north, Highway 379 runs Railroad Valley, and the rest is graded gravel BLM road that goes a long way without seeing pavement. Ely (90 miles east on US 6) and Tonopah (60 miles west) are the supply towns. Currant Summit on US 6 has a tiny outpost. Cell service is gone everywhere. Mule deer hunt the aspen-mahogany pockets, pronghorn the open sage. The country sees genuinely light pressure because most hunters drive past it on their way somewhere with a bigger reputation. Bring extra fuel—the gap between gas stations on US 6 is one of the biggest in the lower 48—and water for at least three days. Wind is constant. The vastness is the appeal.