{"id":166,"date":"2016-10-29T04:08:59","date_gmt":"2016-10-29T04:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.no-destination.org\/?p=166"},"modified":"2016-10-29T04:08:59","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T04:08:59","slug":"oct-12-steens-loop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.no-destination.org\/index.php\/2016\/10\/29\/oct-12-steens-loop\/","title":{"rendered":"Oct 12 : Steens Loop"},"content":{"rendered":"

It seems I disliked this drive so much that I failed to write about it. I wanted to find the Alvord Hot Springs, but the Steens Loop<\/a> drive took so long that by the time I was done, I just wanted to get out of the area and make some tracks. I was headed to visit a dear friend in Logan, Utah and was feeling my month slip by too quickly.<\/p>\n

I stopped in Frenchglen for some expensive gas and to encounter the surliest person I met on the trip behind the payment desk.<\/p>\n

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Argos and Pugsly at the top of Steens. I don’t think they liked the drive either. Unfortunately, most of the photos I took up there are very flat. It’s hard to get the depth of the view with a little point and shoot camera.<\/p>\n

The views were pretty cool tho.<\/p>\n

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It doesn’t look treacherous, but this is where the sheer terror of driving down that almost 10,000 foot slope began.<\/p>\n

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I was so scared of falling off the side of the mountain, that I completely forgot my low-gear training and used too much brake on the way down. Oops.<\/p>\n

Eep.<\/p>\n

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My bravery was rewarded by getting to see a bunch of horses after the descent.<\/p>\n

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I pushed on to Winnemucca, NV and while gassing up around 6:00pm with nowhere known to set up camp, I realized that I wasn’t terribly concerned. Worse comes to worst, I can just not pop-up, move my kitchen stuff to the truck, and me n’ dogs stealth camp in a parking lot somewhere. I have my house on my back and can rest anywhere.<\/p>\n

This feeling was a big difference from how I’d felt when I started this trek. I made sure I had camping locations scouted and GPS coordinates listed in my little book. It was freeing to not worry and know that I was okay, even if I didn’t find a real\u00a0place to camp.<\/p>\n

I consulted freecampsites.net<\/a> and found the Water Canyon Recreation Area<\/a>\u00a0which happened to be about 1.5 miles from the gas station. There are little campsites set up every so often on into the canyon. I was tired and didn’t much feel like exploring, so I took one of the closer ones and got a spectacular view.<\/p>\n

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Argos was glad to settle down for the night.<\/p>\n

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Pugsly wanted me to settle in so that she could cuddle with me<\/p>\n

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and we watched the sunset.
\nand we were content.<\/p>\n

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It seems I disliked this drive so much that I failed to write about it. I wanted to find the Alvord Hot Springs, but the Steens Loop drive took so long that by the time I was done, I just wanted to get out of the area and make some tracks. I was headed to visit a dear friend in Logan, Utah and was feeling my month slip by too quickly. I stopped in Frenchglen for some expensive gas and…<\/p>\n

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