It's warmed up here in Central Oregon and it's definitely time to be getting out and about. For the spring shakedown trip I chose to head to a place I had not visited since 1998, the Lost Forest. The Lost Forest is an isolated stand of ponderosa pine living in an area that gets about 8 inches of rainfall. In this environment you'd expect mainly sage with some scattered juniper, but instead there is an old…
It's been a bit quiet around here the last month or more. There's not as much camping and exploring going on in January and February as some of the warmer months. The truck camper and boats are winterized and stored away, waiting for the warmer weather that will be here before we know it. Luckily there has been plenty of snow to enjoy along with lots of bluebird winter days. There's miles of ski trails…
It was going to be my last full day in Death Valley National Park for this trip, and it was going to be a full one, so I got started at 5:30 and was on the road just after 6:00. I spent the first half of the day driving and checking out Titus Canyon Road. There are portions of the road that are barely one vehicle wide so the entire route, except the last two…