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"Last Light on Owyhee Canyonlands" - Owyhee Mountains
This is definitely my favorite place in the Owyhee Mountains - the
confluence of the Owyhee River and Battle Creek. It is a real challenge
to get to this place because of the remote dirt roads. Over the
years I have only been to this place three times. When the desert is
green in the Spring, most often the roads are too wet to drive, and
to get to this place requires driving far too much four wheel drive
road ( close to 30 miles? ).
The first time I went to this place, the roads were good, but the first
night it rained and snowed. It never stopped raining, and the drive
out turned into quite an adventure. I
think I counted the number of times we got stuck at about 28? For the
trip when I took this image ( and several others ), I was very fortunate
to have timed it well for the greens of Spring but with a dry road.