Sunday’s Bucket List 5/28/2017

Saturday I found out I had a Sunday pass.
Decided to cross a few things off the list :

Lunch at the Wrangler
Scout the Willow Creek trailhead ( Ketchum –Warmsprings )
Magic Reservoir & Little City of Rocks never been to either one in 36 years
I've been in Idaho.

Loop  ~ 380 miles

Slack waters of Arrow Rock / SF Boise

Lupines near Prairie

Along with Priming the Pump , Donald invented the Bacon Cheeseburger .

Buttercup still has a ton of snow on the south slopes.

Just past the Cherry Creek campsite the road is closed.
A few miles up the road there is a large washout . I decided
to turn around and use my time visiting Magic .

Willow Creek cut a lot of new channels.
I think it will be another ~6 weeks before the snow banks
are gone .

Moonstone campsite Magic Reservoir

Magic Spillway

Coffee break at Manhattan Café Shoshone , Idaho  .

Little City of Rocks , Gooding .
It’s looks like a lost civilization .

The Camus Prairie

Indian Country/Edge of the of the Big Empty–Owyhee Reservoir 5/23/2017

 
Riders- John , Byron
Loop – 231 miles

Byron and I took another stab at riding the Owyhee Tunnel canal road 
into Owyhee Reservoir.

 

Breakfast at the The Bowling Alley

I thought I knew how to connect to the Tunnel Road off of HWY201 ,
but we still would have to cross peoples yards to connect.

We rode back to Succor Creek and took the Power line road .

 

 

Owyhee Reservoir  .


The last mile of the descent into the canyon was steep and cobbley .
I found I had more control dead engine coasting , probably
because the ABS was disabled .

Found some shade at Snively Hot Springs .
I managed to loose my reading glasses.

 

Oregon’s Big Empty

 

Negro Rock
As we traveled through the canyon the bike showed the temperatures at 95F !
The canyon was also littered with dead cattle , probably winter kill from the storms .

In Vale I bought another pair of reading glasses then we dropped in next door
for a cold beer .