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
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.
15 Years of Rock Fall
I was going through my images and found these two that were taken at about the same spot 15 years apart. I thought it was real interesting to see the changes. The road is washed out about 5 miles from here … and so it hasn’t been maintained since the storms of 2001. So the top photo was after 5 years of erosion. The bottom photo is 15 years later, in 2021.
Glass Mountain, OR
Glass Mountain is southeast of Prineville in north central Oregon. It got the name from the large pieces of obsidian that are scattered across the surface. I like the showers showing off in the distance.