shapp Posted June 21, 2010 Share Posted June 21, 2010 (edited) Trip: something other than hood - lower Owyhee - Rome to Birch Creek Date: 6/13-17/2010 Trip Report: Lower Owyhee River - Rome to Birch Creek (48.5 miles) 1200 cfs at launch, 800 cfs at take out, June 13 - 17, 2010. 113 miles SE of Burns! Me, wife, and dog loving life. Pictorial trip report, highlights included tire bloat out followed by 4 new tires from Less's place in La Grande installed in less than 20 minutes, 2 hots springs, several fun rapids, a big hail storm and flash flood in the creek next to the Teepee, big leg bone fossil found, great dutch oven cooking (pizza, tamale pie, etc.). I love SE Oregon 1 Gear Notes: Aire 14' purple people pleaser, dutch oven, beer, Teepee Approach Notes: Toyota and 1,350 miles round trip Edited June 21, 2010 by shapp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justinp Posted June 21, 2010 Share Posted June 21, 2010 Light on the climbing but fawk yeah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billcoe Posted June 21, 2010 Share Posted June 21, 2010 fawk yeah HELL YEAH! What he said. I stayed on this side of the hill this weekend and got rained on. Felt kind of stupid till I started settling into an outdoor hot spring buck assed naked in a light mist, then it was all good and forgotten:-) No climbing and not much other either. At least you were exploring. fawk yeah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
111 Posted June 21, 2010 Share Posted June 21, 2010 well done shapp. how far in did the cave go? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra_Commander Posted June 21, 2010 Share Posted June 21, 2010 (edited) fossilized ordovician walrus penis complete with intact nutsack - beautiful specimen. Edited June 21, 2010 by Cobra_Commander Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostCamKenny Posted June 22, 2010 Share Posted June 22, 2010 2 hots springs awesome! which two were you at? there are only three (that i've heard of) in that area... alvord, willow and mickey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevetimetravlr Posted June 22, 2010 Share Posted June 22, 2010 Looks fabulous! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARob Posted June 22, 2010 Share Posted June 22, 2010 Wow! Looks like a great adventure, I have been looking to do the Owyhee for a while now. Great sunset and canyon pics! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stefan Posted June 22, 2010 Share Posted June 22, 2010 dude!!! you are supposed to keep this rafting place quiet!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoff Posted June 22, 2010 Share Posted June 22, 2010 None of those LCK. There are probably hundreds in this area. Most are NOT in the Hike to Hot Springs book, particularly if you need a 14' Aire to get there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostCamKenny Posted June 22, 2010 Share Posted June 22, 2010 None of those LCK. There are probably hundreds in this area. Most are NOT in the Hike to Hot Springs book, particularly if you need a 14' Aire to get there. thanks, counselor... back to work on yer deck now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shapp Posted June 22, 2010 Author Share Posted June 22, 2010 (edited) Actually I think they are in the hiking hotspring book, The smaller one is Rye Grass hot spring located on the other side of the river from Rye Grass Crossing, and Greely Bar hotspring is the bigger one. I actually do have some climbing plans for next year to do about a 5 pitch route on the big tooth-loocking pinnacle in this photo (scoped it quite substantially this year. additional pic from 2008: Edited June 22, 2010 by shapp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted June 23, 2010 Share Posted June 23, 2010 dirty, dirty - nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shapp Posted May 4, 2011 Author Share Posted May 4, 2011 (edited) . Edited May 4, 2011 by shapp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shapp Posted May 4, 2011 Author Share Posted May 4, 2011 (edited) fossilized ordovician walrus penis complete with intact nutsack - beautiful specimen. Update: I took the fossil to the Burke Gilman museum at UW. I finally got it back last week. The final conclusion by the experts is that it is a distal end of a left femur of a Camelid (extinct camel species), which could not be identified to the exact species. There are clear tooth gnaw marks on one end that are part of the fossil indicating something large either killed it or made dinner of Joe Camel after his demise from other causes. The fossil is between 2 to 7 million years old. Through the discovery of this fossil I learned that Camels evolved in North America, then dispersed to the rest of the world over land bridges, then went extinct in North Amerrica. There are several extinct species, the fossil I have is from one of the largr onnes that stood around 2.5 meters at the shoulder. Edited May 4, 2011 by shapp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 the rest of the animal maybe, but camel TOES have never gone extinct in north america! holy shit, was gonna put in a pic but instead let me implore you to never google said term Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shapp Posted May 5, 2011 Author Share Posted May 5, 2011 FoSho! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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