Alvord Desert, Steens Mtn - May 2001

Jim Frankenfield; snowman@csac.org; 1-877-604-0166

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Over Memorial Day in 2001 we staggered our weekend and went to Steens Mountain from the west side for a day hike then drove around the south end to the Alvord desert, a dry desert Playa where cars and sail-carts can cruise around wherever they please and there is a well-known but simple hot spring. On the drive between we saw a truly spectacular sunset. At the hotsprings we got to talk to a true old-timer who had lived there his entire life. Between that and an old country store in the eastern Oregon desert on the way back Kerry had a chance to see a whole different part of America than what people in other countries are exposed to in the media.
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