I really enjoy driving back country roads and seeing the old barns that dot the countryside. The variety is nearly endless. I found this one in the high desert in central Oregon.
Old Barn
Quinault River, Upstream and Downstream II
These two images are taken from the same location as my last post … different days, different years, different cameras. These are taken with my first digital camera (an Olympus E10). The images are much softer … a lot less detail. I like the softness that gives the images, even though it does create limits to your editing (such as the strange edges on the clouds on the image above).
Again, these are taken from the bridge over the Quinault River just outside the Olympic National Park boundary.
Nevada Backcountry
This was another backcountry road trip where I was really glad to have a routing tracking GPS. Wandering around the border area between Utah and Nevada was fun when I could just keep following roads that wound around through the high desert … roads with no signage and dozens of crossroads that were unmarked. It would have been hard to keep from getting lost without the Garmin. Beautiful country, though.
A Dusting of Snow
This was an exploration of some remote backcountry in central Oregon. I was driving my old Grand Cherokee and watching those clouds for signs of additional snow. I really like having a GPS that shows the track of how I got where I am. It’s reassuring that I would be able to get back to where I started.
Dosewallips Road/Trail
Still haven’t heard any late news about the future of the Dosewallips Road. This is in the Olympic National Forest and there is a washout blocking the road about 1/2 mile from this location. This road provides the only road access to the Dosewallips Campground. It’s a 6 mile hike in to the camp at this point … but the campground and surroundings are in Olympic National Park. The different jurisdictions make the problem solving way more difficult. The Forest doesn’t want to pay for the road repair (which has to be done in such a way as to have no negative impact on the river and its salmon habitat) … and any bypass would be partially on private land … another complication.