Columbia River Vista Point

  

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Columbia River Vista Point

ITW  day 109

Wednesday Aug 11 , 2010

Columbia river , Oregon   Gorge Canyon Corbett, Oregon

original blog post:  https://stonebeartracks.blogspot.com/2011/01/columbia-river-walla-walla.html

This journey has been amazing. Starting out from Birmingham months ago, to cross a continent... I understand the pioneers much better. I understand Homers Odyssey better. The unplanned sights all along the backroads of America... priceless.


From Birmingham across the continent to the Pacific coast of Oregon... and now it's time to head back home. But there are places and things to still see. This was an amazing day to stumble onto this.


We get on the backroads, scenic byway at Corbett, Oregon... and stop at this "Portland Womens Forum" overlook... wow! ... and while there... see this thing... something down the gorge... Let's go see what this is about.


Vista Point... WOW !!! What a place !!! Beauty beyond description.


...and had to stop to pick blueberries for morning breakfast / yogurt/ oat gruel... There were many stops at mom 'n pop roadside stands to buy local grown produce...

?Is this a great country or what? A good day!



ITW 109

Wednesday Aug 11 , 2010 Columbia river , Oregon Gorge Canyon Corbett, Oregon


This journey has been amazing. Starting out from Birmingham months ago, to cross a continent... I understand the pioneers much better. I understand Homers Odyssey better. The unplanned sights all along the backroads of America... priceless.


From Birmingham across the continent to the Pacific coast of Oregon... and now it's time to head back home. But there are places and things to still see. This was an amazing day to stumble onto this. We get on the backroads, scenic byway at Corbett, Oregon... and stop at this "Portland Womens Forum" overlook... wow! ... and while there... see this thing... something down the gorge...


Let's go see what this is about. Vista Point... WOW !!! What a place !!! Beauty beyond description.

...and had to stop to pick blueberries for morning breakfast / yogurt/ oat gruel... There were many stops at mom 'n pop roadside stands to buy local grown produce...

?Is This a great country or what? A good day!

 
 

You never drink twice from the same stream. 

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Bighorn Canyon Nrec Lovell WY

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Jun 28 2010 Bighorn Canyon Nrec Lovell WY

Mon Jun 28 Lovell, WY hwy 37 w/n

Bighorn sheep... a very rare sighting. usually w/ binocs... a mile or 2 away &
they're just a spec. went up into the canyon to see what was there. Arid desert
plain. sagebrush rolling hills

& some 500' mesas . Bighorn Mtns to the east.

Red mesa layers & some Hodos. Horseshoe bend camp had 2 trees as big as your
thumb.. hot open desert. Lake was muddy brown. cliffs were like lake meade... -
25 ft under w/ bleached whiteline on red/ vermillion cliff strata on south side
of lake. really vivid red.


onto Devils canyon overlook. Bighorn river looks pea green below. Sheer cliffs
1,000 to 1,500 ' straight up in most places. 100 sq miles of this. a vast canyon.
almost surreal. desert & mtn erosion goes on forever to horizon. visibility
maybe 60 miles. elev about 6,500 ft. thin air. bright sun. beyond belief.
stunning canyon.


Then hear bleating????? ?What the hell is this. go over the fence out to the
canyon edge to see under the cliff. BIGHORN SHEEP!!! 2 of them. maybe 40 yards
away. already had the binocs looking at canyon /


Canyon
south view mtns. Magnificent animals. Young males w/ 1 ft antlers curling back.
fur is dark gray to brown & molting / shedding into summer coat. about the size
of a big deer. maybe 140 lbs. legs are thin spindly & can hear their hoofs clack
on the rock. These are not the white fur mountain goats... they live in these
sheer cliffs to avoid predator bears/ mountain lions / cougars... they can't
maneuver & get close to the sheep in these mountain cliffs.


They moved out & came up on the mesa about 50 yards away & here are the females
they were calling to ... & they each had a faun / fawn/ doe young? so 6 Bighorn sheep at one place. they grazed a ways & drifted off down the mesa plateau. in the binocs at one point... saw the males square off but did not charge & butt heads as the weaker male gave the grazing spot to the dominant male. Was chance sighting &
spectacular. next day local lady said it was extremely rare to see one!


Native American Indians have been in this Bighorn canyon for 10,000 years.. Their hunting grounds & this canyon was a route to the plains. Bighorn sheep were hunted thru the canyon, then once onto the plains to look, track, close for the hunt of the great buffalo herds. an amazing place. The tall grasses of the plains were sometimes 6' tall & the herds were plentiful.

This is home of the Crow Indians. Blackfeet Northwest. Absoroka / Shoshone are west. Sioux are north, Cheyenne SE.

This was a great day! NONE of this was planned. Thank you Lord! What an amazing place.











Mon Jun 28 Lovell, WY hwy 37 w/n

Bighorn sheep... a very rare sighting. usually w/ binocs... a mile or 2 away &
they're just a spec. went up into the canyon to see what was there. Arid desert
plain. sagebrush rolling hills

& some 500' mesas . Bighorn Mtns to the east.

Red mesa layers & some Hodos. Horseshoe bend camp had 2 trees as big as your
thumb.. hot open desert. Lake was muddy brown. cliffs were like lake meade... -
25 ft under w/ bleached whiteline on red/ vermillion cliff strata on south side
of lake. really vivid red.


onto Devils canyon overlook. Bighorn river looks pea green below. Sheer cliffs
1,000 to 1,500 ' straight up in most places. 100 sq miles of this. a vast canyon.
almost surreal. desert & mtn erosion goes on forever to horizon. visibility
maybe 60 miles. elev about 6,500 ft. thin air. bright sun. beyond belief.
stunning canyon.


Then hear bleating????? ?What the hell is this. go over the fence out to the
canyon edge to see under the cliff. BIGHORN SHEEP!!! 2 of them. maybe 40 yards
away. already had the binocs looking at canyon /


Canyon
south view mtns. Magnificent animals. Young males w/ 1 ft antlers curling back.
fur is dark gray to brown & molting / shedding into summer coat. about the size
of a big deer. maybe 140 lbs. legs are thin spindly & can hear their hoofs clack
on the rock. These are not the white fur mountain goats... they live in these
sheer cliffs to avoid predator bears/ mountain lions / cougars... they can't
maneuver & get close to the sheep in these mountain cliffs.


They moved out & came up on the mesa about 50 yards away & here are the females
they were calling to ... & they each had a faun / fawn/ doe young? so 6 Bighorn sheep at one place. they grazed a ways & drifted off down the mesa plateau. in the binocs at one point... saw the males square off but did not charge & butt heads as the weaker male gave the grazing spot to the dominant male. Was chance sighting &
spectacular. next day local lady said it was extremely rare to see one!


Native American Indians have been in this Bighorn canyon for 10,000 years.. Their hunting grounds & this canyon was a route to the plains. Bighorn sheep were hunted thru the canyon, then once onto the plains to look, track, close for the hunt of the great buffalo herds. an amazing place. The tall grasses of the plains were sometimes 6' tall & the herds were plentiful.

This is home of the Crow indians. Blackfeet Northwest. Absoroka / Shoshone are west. Sioux are north, Cheyenne SE.

This was a great day! NONE of this was planned. Thank you Lord! What an amazing place.      

You never drink twice from the same stream. 

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