This report is in two parts, differentiated by major area and attendees.
Part 1: Home Skillet and MarkBC in the North Warners including Abert Rim, in Oregon.
Home Skillet and I left Bend Thursday evening around 5:30, HS driving his Titan Expedition Vehicle and me driving my F250 with FWC Hawk, heading south on US 97 then Oregon 31 then US 395.
We took a pit stop at the Summer Lake Rest Area. It's a nice place to admire the view of some of the Summer Lake Wildlife Refuge as well as local fault-scarp mountains (including Winter Ridge behind us) and the magnificent and distant Abert Rim...nice.
We refueled in Lakeview (the Shell station on the north end is open 'til 10 -- we got there at 9), then headed back north on 395 (5 miles) to the junction with OR 140, on which we headed east to the North Warner road, where we headed north. Our nominal goal was Abert Rim, but it was too far/dark/late to try for that, so HS found a spur to turn off and camp for the night, next to Bull Prairie. I'm not sure if there were any bulls, but there were plenty of cows.
We sat and enjoyed the night for a while (and bemoaning the cow-noises/scat).
I made an attempt at shooting photos of the Milky Way, such as this one:
Part 1: Home Skillet and MarkBC in the North Warners including Abert Rim, in Oregon.
Home Skillet and I left Bend Thursday evening around 5:30, HS driving his Titan Expedition Vehicle and me driving my F250 with FWC Hawk, heading south on US 97 then Oregon 31 then US 395.
We took a pit stop at the Summer Lake Rest Area. It's a nice place to admire the view of some of the Summer Lake Wildlife Refuge as well as local fault-scarp mountains (including Winter Ridge behind us) and the magnificent and distant Abert Rim...nice.
We refueled in Lakeview (the Shell station on the north end is open 'til 10 -- we got there at 9), then headed back north on 395 (5 miles) to the junction with OR 140, on which we headed east to the North Warner road, where we headed north. Our nominal goal was Abert Rim, but it was too far/dark/late to try for that, so HS found a spur to turn off and camp for the night, next to Bull Prairie. I'm not sure if there were any bulls, but there were plenty of cows.
We sat and enjoyed the night for a while (and bemoaning the cow-noises/scat).
I made an attempt at shooting photos of the Milky Way, such as this one: