You think you have a plan, then something changes. We were going to be floating the Deschutes, then just like that we found ourselves in the Owyhee country of southeast Oregon instead. Plans for the Deschutes fell through so we took a look at the list of possibilities. There was a break in the rain, which is absolutely required if you want to even think of travelling the roads around the Owyhee. With that we were off across the high desert.
A stormy weekend came to Oregon. It didn’t keep us home. The Ochocos had some fall colors we needed to see, so that is what we did. Here are the photos…
This is a bit of a go-back in time but the day at the Lava Cast Forest was too impressive not to mention. The Lava Cast Forest is a lava flow located in the Newberry National Volcanic Monument and it is actually casts of trees set in lava where trees were growing once upon a time when the most recent lava flow moved through the area many thousands of years ago. It’s kind of like plaster of Paris with lava and trees.
