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Friend and I took a couple of days and drove over to the desert just for the fun of camping out there. I was very disappointed. It's not the desert I remember, nor the one I worked in 50 years ago. The BLM has succeeded in removing, at least where we were, the cattle off the desert. So the dry grass was in places waist high, making it impossible to swing a metal detector, look for rocks, or build a camp fire where my plans were to camp and play. It was educational as well as fun, and just the chance of being able to get away and be out there where there is nothing but the breeze and empty country. The educational part was, we didn't see any other living thing. Not just no cows, there were no wild horses, no antelope, no deer, unbelievably no magpies -- none, not one. When I was out there horse back 50 years ago, there were hundreds of magpies and crows/ravens, coyotes, rabbits, hawks, the works. Grazing animals are part of the eco system, before cows there were elk and buffalo. This trip we saw one hawk and five rabbits in two days, and perhaps 6 or 8 Ravens, and folks, I lay the blame on two things, BLM and west Nile virus. I'll get off my soap box, because I could go on rant that most of you folks wouldn't be interested in anyhow. I've got pictures, but not of animals, because there wasn't any.
This is Adel, located in the Warner Valley, which is beautiful agriculture country. This is no longer a store, it's now a restaurant, and is the last gas for awhile.
Next pictures are the interior of the "store." Gas was $3 per gallon, which I didn't think was to bad, considering the location. The town of Plush is 18 miles north, and they have a small store and gas also. But we were heading east. When Carter was president, there was no gas in Adel, so the sign was at the Lake View turn off when you start over the Warner mountains. Back then it said, "next gas 260 miles." Gotta love it. Folks that live out there consider 100 miles local, and think nothing of going that far to watch a movie or buy a beer.
Check out this cash register.
Our camp was going to be in the Guano Valley, right by the Nevada border.
Our camp was located at the mouth of this canyon. We are in Oregon, the canyon is in Nevada. In fact the name is called "State Line Canyon."
Looking west from out camp, out across Guano Valley.
There was some evidence of pre-historic Indian occupation out on the flat on the way up to the place we wanted to go, but just obsidian chips, no other artifacts.
Because I didn't figure on there being tall grass, I wore my diabetic shoes provided by the VA. Mistake. The next morning we moved to a well watered camp site I knew about on Wagontire mountain. More on that in a different post.
This is Adel, located in the Warner Valley, which is beautiful agriculture country. This is no longer a store, it's now a restaurant, and is the last gas for awhile.
Next pictures are the interior of the "store." Gas was $3 per gallon, which I didn't think was to bad, considering the location. The town of Plush is 18 miles north, and they have a small store and gas also. But we were heading east. When Carter was president, there was no gas in Adel, so the sign was at the Lake View turn off when you start over the Warner mountains. Back then it said, "next gas 260 miles." Gotta love it. Folks that live out there consider 100 miles local, and think nothing of going that far to watch a movie or buy a beer.
Check out this cash register.
Our camp was going to be in the Guano Valley, right by the Nevada border.
Our camp was located at the mouth of this canyon. We are in Oregon, the canyon is in Nevada. In fact the name is called "State Line Canyon."
Looking west from out camp, out across Guano Valley.
There was some evidence of pre-historic Indian occupation out on the flat on the way up to the place we wanted to go, but just obsidian chips, no other artifacts.
Because I didn't figure on there being tall grass, I wore my diabetic shoes provided by the VA. Mistake. The next morning we moved to a well watered camp site I knew about on Wagontire mountain. More on that in a different post.
