We're on the Oregon-Idaho border here in Ontario and embracing life on Mountain Daylight Savings Time. Our bus was late getting to Bend, so we rolled into Ontario after dark. We've studied the maps and amazing water updates from DNR. Now all there is to do is get some sleep and make it to the … Continue reading On the road to Ontario

It's possible to fall in love with a place before ever setting foot on the ground. That's how I felt about the Steens since looking at the mountain and the surrounding Basin and Range country on a map. I'd imagine the hillsides of aspen on a sky-island (a 5,000 foot fault block of a mountain) … Continue reading Checked all the boxes – pre-ODT