Morning skies near Crystal Springs (97 degree natural spring)


Breaking out the 17 to shoot a few sage rats...


Headed toward the French round barn



Beautiful scenery



Eastern Oregon at it's best



Best adventure yet to come...

 

A little bit of calm before my storm
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How about taking a side trail off the already desolate highway
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Getting a bit dirty
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Already run out of washer fluid
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A good 13 miles into the wilderness, the volcanic rock top layer gets punched through down to a very thick mud layer.
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How much cable do I have? I need almost 300 ft to reach the nearest upside juniper. With my Powerplant spooled out to just 2 turns of cable on the drum and all the tree savers and tow ropes...I have just enough.



2 1/2 feet of mud. Nastiest I've ever seen. So much of a hard uphill pull that I melted the entire negative front post on my red top Optima.



Hell...I already know where I've been.



Rescue brown??



All's well that ends well