LOST AT THREE FINGERS ROCK

 WITH MORE IDEAS FROM MATT, TESS AND I DECIDED TO GO IN SEARCH OF CARLTON CANYON. I HAD FOUND DIRECTIONS THE NIGHT BEFORE AND WE SET OUT. ONLY LATER TO FIND THAT WHEN I PRINTED THE DIRECTIONS IT CUT HALF OF THEM OFF. 

AS WITH ANY MALHEUR COUNTY ADVENTURE WE DROVE THROUGH SUNNY SLOPS, AND TO OUR LUCK THE PEACH TREES WHERE IN FULL BLOOM.  

 A LITTLE POLLINATOR 

THE LOVELY TESS 

ONCE OUT OF THE ORCHARDS WE SOON GOT TO OUR FAVORITE TURN OFF AND DIRT ROADS AHEAD. SOON WE REALIZED THAT OUR DIRECTIONS WHERE ONLY HALF THERE AND I SWORE I KNEW THE WAY. WELL 25 MILES IN WE FIGURED WE WHERE ON THE WRONG ROAD AND FAR, FAR AWAY FROM OUR DESTINATION. BUT LIKE ANY ADVENTURER WE FOUND ADVENTURE IN BEING LOST AND OFF TRACK.   

 SOMEWHERE OUT THERE WAS OUR LOVELY CARLTON CANYON. 

AND WITH EVERY STOP COMES A SELF PORTRAIT

 A GORGE THAT LEAD TO SOME UNKNOWN ADVENTURE SIGHT.

 AND YET AGAIN ANOTHER COW THINKING WE WHERE NUTS.

AS WE KEPT DRIVING AND LAUGHING ALONG WE SPOTTED A MOUNTAIN WITH THREE HUMPS ON IT. 

TESS QUICKLY HIT THE SKIDS, STATING THAT THOSE WHERE THREE FINGERS ROCK. 

TO MY SURPRISE SHE HAD JUST READ A FELLOW BLOGGERS BLOG ABOUT THIS TRIP AND HAD PRINTED FULL DIRECTIONS TO THIS LOCATION. 

SOON WE WHERE OFF AND TRUCKING IT TO THREE FINGERS ROCK.

 EXCITED FOR THE NEW ADVENTURE!

EVEN IF THE WIND WAS BLOWING AND RAIN CLOUDS WHERE ON THEIR WAY.

AS YOU CAN SEE BEHIND ME IS THE ROAD UP THERE. ITS ABOUT A MILE OR SO UP AND IT IS STRAIGHT UP

TEAM COUSIN! 

LOOKING BACK.... ALMOST THERE!

 THESE ROCKS MAKE ME THINK OF A DRAGONS TAIL.

 STARTING OUR HIKE UP.

 TESS FOUND THIS LITTLE CAVE...WE DECIDED IF IT STARTED RAINING WE COULD HIDE IN HERE.

  THE TRAIL AHEAD LOOKED RATHER ROCKY

THE TRAIL...

 BUT WE FIGURED WE COULD KICK BUTT.

 FINGERS ONE...TWO...AND THREE

 BOTTOM OF ONE

 THE VIEW BEHIND US

 THE CLIMB TO COME. 

 TESS TRYING TO FIND HER WAY UP AND AROUND THE ROCKS

 YEAH THIS PART PRETTY MUCH SUCKED!

 UP SHE GOES...

 BESIDES SAGE BRUSH AND ROCKS THIS PRICKLY LITTLE THING WAS AT THE TOP.

 ALONG WITH THIS

PRETTY SURE IF MY MOM WOULD HAVE CAME WE WOULD HAVE BEEN PACKING THIS HOME WITH US!

ONCE WE REACHED THE TOP, IN BETWEEN THE FINGER WE THEN HAD TO CLIMB UP FINGER ONE. WHICH WAS PRETTY EASY, JUST SOME ROCK SCRAMBLING.

 ONCE AT THE TOP OUR DIRECTION TOLD US ABOUT A CAN AND IT WASNT HARD TO SPOT.

TESS AND I WERE EXCITED TO SEE WHAT WAS INSIDE.

EVERYONE THAT HAD MADE THE HIKE HAD WROTE ON A PIECE OF PAPER OR SOMETHING TELLING OF THEIR ADVENTURE. THERE WAS EVEN A BUD OF POT IN THE CAN.

WE WENT THROUGH EACH AND EVERY PAPER IN THERE AND READ THEM ALL. 

 GREAT MINDS THINK ALIKE I FOUND OUT.

 TEAM COUSIN'S ENTREE!

 FEELS LIKE THE TOP OF THE WORLD FROM UP HERE

AND IM VERY EXCITED TO HAVE MADE IT!

FROM UP HERE WE COULD SEE THE TOP OF FINGER TWO. THERE SEEMED TO BE A CAIRN AND SOME KIND OF POST. 
I HOW EVER WANTED TO RUN OFF FINGER ONE AND SEE WHAT WAS UP THERE BUT TESS FIGURED IT WASNT A GOOD IDEA SINCE IT WOULD BE A HARDER CLIMB, THE STORM WASNT TOO FAR OFF AND IT WAS GETTING LATE IN THE DAY....WELL ILL JUST HAVE TO WAIT FOR ROUND TWO AT THREE FINGERS.

FROM ON TOP THE VIEW WAS BREATH TAKING. AND YOU COULD SEE FOR MILES IN ALL DIRECTIONS.

NOT LIKEING THE LOOK OF THAT STORM...

OUR TRIAL LOOKS SOOO LONG!

ON THE WAY BACK TO THE TRUCK WE FOUND THIS LITTLE GUY. HE WASNT TOO HAPPY GETTING HIS PICTURE TAKEN AND KEPT CRAWLING AWAY.

ONCE DRIVING WE SAW DEER YET AGAIN.

BUT THEY DIDNT STICK AROUND FOR LONG.

AS WE WHERE LEAVING AND DRIVING THROUGH SUCCOR CREEK WE NOTICED THIS POOR COW. NOT KNOWING IF SHE WAS ALIVE, WE DROVE OVER AND GOT OUT...AFTER LOOKING HER OVER, IT SEEMED SHE HAD DIED TRYING TO GIVE BIRTH...POOR MAMA.

I HAVE TO SAY THIS WAS AN INTERESTING DAY. GETTING LOST AND COMING OUT WITH AN AWESOME ADVENTURE.