We departed from Winnemucca, Nevada on US-95 north and turned onto US 140 that took us into the northern most region of Nevada and into the rugged southeast corner of Oregon. No life in sight, no houses, no towns, no nothing. I thought I would see some jackrabbits, but no such luck. Rugged mountains, long valleys with sagebrush and not much else. However, just as we were slowly climbing one mountain road pushing along at about 25 MPH, we spotted this beautiful Big Horn Sheep standing on the top of the hill watching the occasional car that passed. Photo 1 is the results of us stopping and racing back to the side of the hill, climbing up the hill so that the top was visible. We got five excellent photos of this Big Horn Ram before it vanished over the rise. Later, we saw signs for "Burros" and a little later we saw five wild burros grazing. No wild mustangs this time around, but we are still hoping. Shortly after this photo was taken, we discovered the downgrade was a steep 8%. This is steep and worst of all, it was like seven or eight miles long. I mean it was so high that I spotted a sign that said something like a Glider Launch Site as we started down at 15 MPH.
One hundred seventy-two miles from Winnemucca, Nevada is Adel, Oregon, the first gas station since leaving Denio Junction in Nevada, some 90 miles back. We filled the RV up and got a couple of cold sodas and headed into Lakeview, Oregon, some thirty miles further on. We rounded one bend in the road and this small mountain water falls was shouting at us to take its picture, so we did. Both photos were taken with a Sony CyberShot DSC-S70 set at the 2.1 Megpixel setting. We were on our way to the Juniper RV Park, located within an 8,000 acre working cattle ranch, complete with the old homestead site and an old Indian village where arrowheads can still be pick up and kept since it is on private property. I am not sure about the petrified dinosaur dung they have on display.
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