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1 driver + 2 shots espresso + 3 cups coffee + 13 1/2 hours = 750 miles Stanley, ID to Cheyenne, WY Goodbye Sawtooth Valley (from 8700′ pass): Hello beginning of Utah’s Wasatch Range: [...]

Stayed in Stanley for the day…and what a day it was! Little hike up the “hill” behind John and Julie’s house. Here’s the cairn/rock sculpture John’s been [...]

Joseph, OR to Stanley, ID via all two-lane highways, back roads, or Forest Service Roads: Hell’s Canyon Overlook, Goodbye Wallowas 🙁 THE CLAW wants to eat this very slow driver along the [...]

Time has flown by and I leave tomorrow morning… Tuesday’s new thing was a road trip to the northern reaches of Wallowa County. I stopped at Flora, Paradise, and Joseph Canyon overlook: [...]

Monday’s new thing was a visit to Wallowa County’s pride and joy, Siroptimist Thrift Store. According to just about everyone on Planet Wallowa, this is a must-see place. Incessant rain on Monday [...]

Sunday’s new thing was a hellaciously wonderful bike ride with Eric, my tried and true let’s-do-fun-stuff pal in Wallowa County. I don’t think I’ve ever had a friend like him, and he’d be totally [...]

Saturday’s “new thing” was a late spring leap into the frigid Wallowa Lake. This lake, mind you, sits at 4400 feet elevation outside a town that had snow as recently as last Thursday. It is four [...]

The idea seemed simple enough: Friday’s “new thing” would be a long, level hike hovering between 4K-5K in elevation along Bear Creek just outside the town of Wallowa. One canyon over from the [...]

Oh, what a fine day it was for mushroom hunting! A light mist fell throughout the morning as my two pals and I headed up the mountain for this spring’s bounty of morels (and today’s “new thing”). [...]

[Yesterday’s “new thing” was a 19-mile bike loop I hadn’t done yet. For today’s, read on…] “You can’t get there from here” not only applies to the Zumwalt, but also currently to the deeper Forest [...]