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IMG 4345in 5 week trip ID, UT, MT, NV, OR, WAOur last campground for this trip. It is usually our campground of choice either heading out or return: Klipchuck, a USFS facility in the Okanagan National Forest. The sites are spacious, vault toilets clean and the pine scent... |
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IMG 4326in 5 week trip ID, UT, MT, NV, OR, WAYou can still see the burned areas of the Carlton Complex fire of a few years ago on 163 between Pateros and Twisp. |
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IMG 4292in 5 week trip ID, UT, MT, NV, OR, WAWe stayed at Osborne Bay campground on the opposite side of our stay earlier in the trip. Thus is a more primitive part of Steamboat Rock state park just south of Electric City off Highway 155. We were the only ones that night. |
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IMG 4270in 5 week trip ID, UT, MT, NV, OR, WALakeview Ranch just north of Odessa, WA. This was a spur gravel road off Highway 21. There is a campground nearby. |
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IMG 4192in 5 week trip ID, UT, MT, NV, OR, WAHarvested wheat fields near Prescott, WA. Lots of winding roads through endless wheat fields. |
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IMG 4183in 5 week trip ID, UT, MT, NV, OR, WAWe meandered our way via gravel and obscure paved roads into Washington. We stopped at this historical marker commemorating the Lewis and Clark Expedition April 30, 1806 campsite. |
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IMG 4100in 5 week trip ID, UT, MT, NV, OR, WAOur campsite at Ukiah Dale state forest along the Camas Creek. Flush toilets, water, camp host spot. Some highway noise but not at night. We camped by the creek. |
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IMG 4047in 5 week trip ID, UT, MT, NV, OR, WASouth of Ukiah, still on 395, the road follows Camas Creek, a very scenic stretch of the highway. There are a few places to pull off to take photos or just listen to the creek. |
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IMG 3994in 5 week trip ID, UT, MT, NV, OR, WAHighway 395 continues from Burns north to and through Washington. It doesn’t have a lot of traffic excepting locals, hunters and logging. It is very scenic, especially Devine Canyon just north of Burns. We stayed at the Starr s... |
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IMG 3945in 5 week trip ID, UT, MT, NV, OR, WAWe headed north on 140, 292 and 202 to Oregon stopping at Fields for fuel. Wow! $7.25 a gallon so we just topped off until Burns. In this area near Malheur NWR, we always camp at the Page Springs Campground. There are clean vau... |
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IMG 3865in 5 week trip ID, UT, MT, NV, OR, WAOne of the ranches at the small ranching communities nearby. There is a lithium mine proposed in the nearby mountains which will be using lots of water which is already overallocated. There is a coalition between environmentali... |
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IMG 3809in 5 week trip ID, UT, MT, NV, OR, WAJust a few agates or more accurately, chalcedony, from our first day including a carnelian, the reddish one. I found our biggest here a few days later, 4”x3”. We stayed here 3 days and the weather did clear up after the beautif... |
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IMG 3822in 5 week trip ID, UT, MT, NV, OR, WAHome at last, our favorite agate area. We are always alone here except for some rancher traffic. It is so quiet here and the skies so dark. The Milky Way streaks overhead and the Big Dipper feels like you could reach out and to... |
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IMG 3740in 5 week trip ID, UT, MT, NV, OR, WAJust another Nevada gravel road in ranch country. This one was a bit colorful than others. We travelled from Beowawe exit to Winnemucca spending the night high above the freeway on BLM land. There aren’t too many campgrounds so... |
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IMG 3670in 5 week trip ID, UT, MT, NV, OR, WAThis is our muddy truck after driving Nevada’s gravel backroads. We were just past the Cortez Mine and saw heavy big truck traffic. |
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IMG 3599in 5 week trip ID, UT, MT, NV, OR, WAWe had planned to head for a reputed agate area west of Austin but the rain and predicted snow helped us to decide to head north to I80 (Beowawe) and return to our favorite agate area in NW Nevada. These were mainly gravel road... |
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IMG 3542in 5 week trip ID, UT, MT, NV, OR, WAWe arrived in Eureka on Highway 50 to get fuel. The only place to camp was a cheek by jowl RV park but we found a rest area just east of town and a neighbor to the RV park. We were joined by others and spent a quiet night. |
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IMG 3463in 5 week trip ID, UT, MT, NV, OR, WAWe took a series of graded gravel roads south to Eureka passing by Alkali Flat in the Diamond Valley. There were the usual abandoned farms and some mining activity, typical for Nevada’s gravel roads. |
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IMG 3417in 5 week trip ID, UT, MT, NV, OR, WAWe drive the Harrison Pass Road out of Ruby Valley to the Elko Hamilton Stage Road. This was a very decent gravel scenic road with large rock formations and Star Mine, an abandoned mining camp at the beginning. |
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IMG 3359in 5 week trip ID, UT, MT, NV, OR, WARuby Lake NWR. The birds have pretty much migrated so only residents were ducks and songbirds but we did see vultures congregating. Staff was very knowledgeable. We camped at the South Ruby campground. |
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IMG 3175in 5 week trip ID, UT, MT, NV, OR, WAOld red barn along Ruby Valley Road north of Ruby Lake NWR. |
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IMG 3112in 5 week trip ID, UT, MT, NV, OR, WAWe drove along Clover Valley Road, a scenic alternative to 93, to Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge. The East Humboldt Range loomed ahead. Lots of farms and ranches in this valley. |
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IMG 3023in 5 week trip ID, UT, MT, NV, OR, WAWe camped the next night at Angel Creek Campground southwest of Wells, NV. Beautiful campground with views of Chimney Rock. Aspens had color. |
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IMG 2849in 5 week trip ID, UT, MT, NV, OR, WANaf, Idaho near the Utah border. We were on our way to NE Utah to explore the Transcontinental RR that once passed through there. We took a few gravel and paved roads and drove on an abandoned railroad bed. It was getting dark... |
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IMG 2654in 5 week trip ID, UT, MT, NV, OR, WACampsite #62 at the far end of City of Rocks in Idaho. We had the place to ourselves. Lots of house and car sized boulders plus across the road was a great view of the valley below. It was very quiet with dark skies. There were... |
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