Here are some photos from our trip to Steens Mountain last September. Mike said he wanted to see the wild horses, and luckily we found a herd right away.
I didn't actually need the binoculars
Steens Mountain is an unusual mountain in that it is not shaped like an upside-down V, and it's not part of a mountain range. It's a very long, very tall rectangle, so long that you might think it is a mountain range. It was forced upward by volcanic activity, and many walls in the area look like they were built from large toy blocks. They are very geometric and flat.
Here are the kids at the summit and they were being scared looking down over the side. The Oregon wildfires were going on at the time and the air was very smoky even though we were about as far from the fire as you could get and still be in Oregon.
Sunset photo in the smoke...
On another day we picked up jaspers etc at a dry lakebed:
And on another day we went to Little Glass Butte and picked up around 100 lbs of obsidian, forgive the screenshot for now, I can't find the original photo.
I think the same day we went to the dry lakebed, we ended our day at these funny hot springs in the middle of nowhere. Well, everything in the Steens Mountain area is the middle of nowhere.
We enjoyed our trip very much and would like to return another time to see more when it's not so smoky.
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