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We started out as a group of 5
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There's a reason why they built those windmills...
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Slingshot Siesta... what this picture doesn't tell is that we had mariachi music playing on the travel radio.
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We detoured down gravel into a valley to escape the wind...
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Less windy than the plateau
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Back up on the plateau we were back in the wind...
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15 miles short of our goal, we stopped for the night at Burns Park in Condon, OR.
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Exploring Condon the next morning
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Just beyond Condon the road made a long descent.
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Roadkill remnants
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Panda and Lady B
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Dylan... climbing up to Fossil
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Resting in the shadow of Mt Hood.
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Grange Hall... Mayville, OR
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Objects in Mirror...
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incomming
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More descent... towards Fossil, OR
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Fossil Museum... as in a museum about the town of Fossil, OR.
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German Mirror... kind of useless when you only see a couple cars per hour.
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Riding out of Fossil, we were whittled down to 3.
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Shortly after leaving Fossil we got into some nice timber.
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Rowe Creek Road doesn't look like much on the map, but it was perhaps the most spectacular 15 miles of the trip.
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Scenic valley after scenic valley along Rowe Creek Rd
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Around every turn on Rowe Creek Rd was a postcard worthy scene
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Sometimes we just stopped in the middle of the road to take it all in
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Farmland towards the bottom of Rowe Creek Rd.
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A hint of the not too distant Painted Hills...
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A curious roadside sign brought us to the recently restored Twickenham Grade School
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Mary, current owner of the school, went to school here for a few years before they shut it down.
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After chatting with us for a while, Mary invited us to spend the night in the school.
