The Washoe Zephyr – Sierra Nevada Ally

The Washoe Zephyr – Sierra Nevada Ally

Double Dust Devils, Rollie Rodriguez, cc 2.0 Those of us who live in the western Great Basin Desert, up in the foothills on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada, are all too familiar with a wind that is known locally as the Washoe Zephyr. During his time as a cub newspaper reporter in the mining camps of the western Nevada Territory (then nicknamed “Washoe,” after the Native people who inhabit this region), Mark Twain was also familiar with th…