Road trip- Stone House Road.

Connie gets her kicks going to remote areas that she has seen on a map. One of those places was the Stone House Road, off the Mann Lake road that goes below the Steen's Mountain. I too have looked at this little road that goes to the top of the Eastern most part of the Steens, and wanted to explore it as well. I just haven't succumbed to the temptation yet. Connie had four days off from work, so it was a good time to do it before winter closes in.

Of course the day before she arrived it rained like crazy. The first time in a really long time. I worried a bit that the road might have gotten too much rain to drive on. It was very foggy this morning locally but we decided to go on and give it a try. The closer we got the less fog and clouds were covering the mountain. The ground also seemed to be quite firm, so off we went.

The road was pretty bumpy, but the truck handled it quite well.

 Quite obviously the roads namesake.

This was the top. The terrain flattened out, but there had been a lot more rain here

as the road was goey, so we turned around and headed back down the Mountain.

We saw very little wildlife, only a covey of Chukar, and a few migrating raptors flying under the clouds and fog.