Day 17 Steens Mountain

Day 17 Steens Mountain I woke up earlier than usual around 4:15 and decided since I was up and no one else was to go get in one more soak in the hot springs before we had to start our day.  I walked down the path in the dark, slipped off my clothes and got in the same...

Day 16 The Playa

We woke up a little late this morning after yesterdays long day I think we all needed a little extra sack time to recover from the back to back 30 mile days. It was Sunday morning and that could only mean on thing, Sunday Funday!!! We each packed up and decided that...

Day 15 The Pueblo Mountains

The day started with our continuation of the Denio Canyon alternate, we worked our way up a steep drainage that was pretty brushy for the first mile, after that the brush eased and the canyon steepened a bit. About 2/3 of the way up I saw a skull in the grass for some...

Day 14 Denied in Denio…

Holy hell who threw the switch on the weather?  Yesterday was mostly cloudy and cool but my god this morning was downright frigid.  When I woke up it was well below freezing so much I fact that our water bladders and bottles had frozen.  Luckily we all slept with our...

Day 13, A 30 Mile Adventure

The day started like most up at dark, breakfast, and coffee and then each of us packing to get out at first light.  We had all slept great last night in the forest and since we had a lot of roads in our future we were ready to lay down some miles. We traversed around...